To tell everyone to calm the fuck down?

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This is all the snow where I live and everyone’s got their knickers in a twist! Talks of possible school closures and one of the departments in my husbands work have been told to take Friday off because of the “adverse weather” 😂😂😂

Got hit today and turned back. Half an hour later and only 4x4's could make it up the hill out of the village. Will have to try tomorrow (in amber zone) but really don't want to

Wouldn’t have liked that should say

Some of the overeactions are down to the media whipping it up and also some will have memories of this.

www.ft.com/content/69388d38-a527-11e3-8988-00144feab7de

the slow responses of power networks in the winter of 2013.

You don't need a ton of snow to make driving conditions treacherous

Why are people so dim?

We had only a covering this morning, school closed. Then all day we've had continuous blizzards, the road outside our house is absolutely treacherous, friends took hours to get 5 miles up the A1 and said there was no visibility at some points. Just shows what can happen in a shirt space of time, when it doesn't look bad to begin with!

Took my OH 4 hours to travel 6 miles home today from work- he left at lunchtime.
I am in the red zone. Many workplaces and all schools are closed tomorrow, no buses or trains running. Most roads impassable.
This is a serious situation.

An YABU to tell everyone to "calm the fuck down".

A red warning means a serious threat to life.

Met office says 80% chance in my area and I am, obviously, not that far from you. All it takes here is a queue up a hill at some lights and you have a pile-up. It's supposed to fall again Friday.

I'm from the Pennines, so used to serious snowfall, and the schools close in advance there just the same!

I’m currently on the Wiltshire Hampshire boarder and so far today I’m taken out a lot of tea to people crashed in hedges.

I have put in emergency plans to get my staff home tomorrow because it looks like it won’t be great and I have a duty of care to them.

Don’t be a twat

Mumbo Same here...Its cold...its frosty...snow may or may not fall tomorrow...cue hysterical reporting....

5 years ago I went to work with a light snow forecast. Looked fine. It only took about 6 inches before I left work and I drove 4 miles in 2 hours then abandoned the car and walked the 6 miles home. I got home after 11pm.

It's meant to be heavy in Hampshire tomorrow.

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha no one has said that in Dublin. No one offical anyway, possibly no one unoffical, maybe just your DF.

What you call ‘dramatic’ some other people might call ‘being prepared’. Conditions where I am (SE) aren’t too terrible today however I have a long commute to work which is a nightmare as soon as snow is involved and the forecast is bad, even if only a 40% chance, so I have preemptively opted to work from home tomorrow and Friday, so I could ensure I can work a full day, rearrange meetings etc and not inconvenience too many other people by cancelling last second if I attempted to go in and got stuck.

But I guess I’m just being ‘dramatic’

I live in Scotland in a Red Alert area. We have had about 9 inches of snow. There were plenty of warnings about this "Beast from the East" but as usual our Council don't grit everywhere. People were clearing snow off cars and the snow was piling up as fast as they were clearing it. Even Hospitals were shutting here apart from life and death situations. I don't remember anything as bad as this. Tomorrow is meant to be worse. It is not a calm yourself situation. It is beware and be careful situation. Only a fool would not take this seriously

We've had no snow here either - not so much as a flake - no frost either just a gorgeous bright sunny if chilly day.

It is forecast for tomorrow daytime though, but it keeps changing every time I check, from occasional light scattered snow showers to heavy snow all day, but then bizarrely all the way through it it's got the shiny sun as well as the snow flake icon? I'm not sure but can you have bright sunshine and snow at the same time?

It's too confusing to keep up with so I'm just going to wait and see what turns up.

Why not just stay at home/ go home early/ drive safely? Like you do when it snow, in the winter, that comes around every year...

Why a whole One Show on " The Snow", endless emails on " snow days" from work, absolutely endless weather reports on the news.

We live in the digital era. We can check to see if roads have been closed, schools are closed, airports closed. Why the endless banging on about it?

I'm a little concerned about the Arctic at the moment. 20 degrees C above average.Causing this blast to come this way. That sounds serious.

I really do think it would have helped your cause OP if you'd stated in your OP where you are and the conditions. Obviously it makes a vast difference across the country! I'm in Scotland in the Amber zone, it's heavy snow here falling all day, all schools closed today most likely tomorrow, no trains or flights, major motorways blocked by lorries or drifts, police saying do NOT travel unless absolutely vital etc etc.

We were amber alert for Tuesday nothing happened amber for Wednesday we had a couple of flurries now it's supposed to be hitting Thursday/Friday we are taking things as they come and not planning anything

I'm also in a red alert area and conditions are atrocious. I'm 42 and have never seen it so bad.

Good to know that you are so calm and ice cool in a crisis.

I LOVE snow "emergencies". I grew up in a place where we got snow most winters but real blizzards were rare enough that when we had them they were thrilling. I will never forget one snowstorm when I was working in New York I walked up 5th Avenue right in the middle of the road to get to work. It was magical.

And now I live in Surrey where we have had a dusting of snow and I've been poring over the BBC weather page and my weather apps to get updates on how much snow we'll get. I can't find a forecast that predicts the depth of snow that's expected where I am - I've always relied on that as a guide to how dangerous it's expected to be - so I don't really know how hysterical the reaction to pre-close schools and offices is. Neither of my DCs' schools is "closed", yet, but they are both being very relaxed about whether and when pupils arrive. DH and I both work from home.

It's also my DS's birthday on Friday, and he's praying for a snow day - best birthday present ever, as far as he's concerned. So I'm hoping we get some real snow.

Of course, I know that snow plays havoc on a lot of lives and makes a lot of people take stupid, crazy risks. One thing I can promise is that if I'm told don't travel unless it's essential, I bloody well will not be clogging the roads up with my car.

I really do think it would have helped your cause OP if you'd stated in your OP where you are and the conditions.

I was trying to attach a pic but it wouldn’t let me, as I said in the post below my OP.

Look, it's hitting the south (London?) so the world will be coming to an end. It doesn't matter that in the north we get this amount of snow every year, possibly several times, it doesn't count UNLESS THE SOUTH IS AFFECTED.

YANBU, what is six inches amongst friends?

I'm in the South East. Today was okay, but yesterday driving conditions were dangerous, and the same is predicted for tomorrow and Friday. I'm an inpatient nurse and I have to drive in at 6am tomorrow again on rural, un-gritted roads on ice in predicted snow and it's not going to safe. So yes, I am nervous.