To love all the snow hysteria?

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Just that really.

Justified...a red warning means a threat to life ffs.

There's been people killed, some rescuing their dogs that they were walking.

A red warning has stopped other people going out, or travelling.

ODFOD.

There is 16 inches of snow outside my brothers house on the flat drifting deeper in places because of some strong winds. I think a bit of hysteria is justified when the local supermarket deliveries aren’t getting through and people are getting stuck on the way home from jobs that the employers couldn’t or wouldn’t let them leave early from.

Or the hysteria where a stretch of road got closed twice, this morning, the police eventually got it back open, then there was a 20 vehicle pile up as a lorry spun across the road. Thankfully, only minor injuries. In their hysteria, the police have taken the decision to escort hgvs through the area with an army of gritters and then close it for the rest of the day.

Hilarious, I tell you

I think in places that don't see snow very often it's ok to get a bit over excited. It is exciting. I think it's a bit miserable when people don't get exited about things and then look down on people that do.

so about 15 inches of snow outside, took me hours to dig the car out for it to now start snowing blizzards yet again
my work was closed today, waiting to find out whats going to happen tomorrow

yeah its just hysteria

And in most places it is justified.

Hysteria is it?

Say that to the people that have died, the people that live in red zone because of legitimate threat to life.

Say it to my husband, who just took two hours to get home because nearly every route was closed and the ones that weren’t were almost impossible to use.

Or to the five different car drivers he had to help dig out or get started again.

Say it to my company who must be losing thousands of man hours because on my team alone, out of 10....only one is able to work. One has had to leave her car at the bottom of the hill, another can’t get off his drive, mine was Snowed in.

Sure it’s jusr a bit of a snow. But let’s react appropriately in order to keep it as jusr that, when people go against advice and act like they’re too good to be affected....that’s when it stops being just a bit of snow,

SOME places are swamped and muddling through.

Most it's an amber warning and no sensible person will be going out and about driving.

Some places they have a couple of cm and it's total meltdown. Schools stay open = problem. Schools close = problem.

Our 7m pregnant neighbour slipped on ice this morning and landed on her bump, she’s been rushed to hospital with a possible placental abruption

7 people have died because of the snow...literally some people have frozen to death

People have been injured

Elderly and vulnerable people have no help because carers can’t physically get to them due to ice

It’s absolutely fucking hilarious

Yes, I'm with you, OP

The Red weather warning is required because a not insignificant number of people are stoopid IMO and IME.

If people stuck to the recommendation of 'only essential travel' (and no, that does not include the trip to McDonalds or your job in a bank or getting flowers for your mum's birthday ), then less chaos would ensue.

Also, wear appropriate shoes ifs.

And appropriate clothes...

It's 20cm of snow here and the place is a ghost town

red warning, hospitals at full capacity, people who can't even reach them -including emergency workers, we don't know the amount of people who won't survive unheated properties not including the very minor various broken bones from falls on icy road, car crashes

absolutely hysterical indeed.

Some places have only seen a small amount, but it's too rare to justify spending an already small budget on proper infrastructure, so it's chaos too.

Fancy a huge increase in council tax to prepare for the next winter?

Surely it depends on where someone lives? Some parts of the country are effected more than others.

Dh commute yesterday on the train took 4 1/2 hours in total instead of 2, and today he was delayed going in so no doubt will struggle getting home too.

We live in a small village, none of the roads have been gritted

The small local shop here is closed so to get nappies for my 3 dc I am going to have to leave the the dc with mil and drive to the nearest town supermarket super store 25 minutes away, I am not looking forward to being on the roads in my village as it’s like a fucking ice park.

All schools near me are closed, my dc aren’t school age but think of all the working parents this has effected

What about someome that is disabled and can’t get out for food? Or someone that hasn’t got the mobility to get out in this weather for a prescription?

My baby niece needs to go to hospital for a life saving treatment tomorrow and her parents have no idea how they are going to get there as they are blocked in by 15 inches of snow, they are absolutely panicking for their little one.

Fucking hilarious this hysteria, I tell ya.

We're not used to it. We dont know how to cope with it. It's getting deep where we are.

I can't even open my back door because the snow drift is half way up it. My front steps are buried, so it looks like a bump rather than there being any stairs there. The snow plough couldn't even get up the hill to my house, so the road is uncleared, and my car is buried half up the wheels. I'm not being hysterical mind, just resigned.

Hospitals are putting staff up in hotels and asking the public who have 4 x 4 vehicles if they can help transport staff to work.

It's not going to be funny if we can't staff the already overstretched hospitals. Tit.

OK: I'm sorry.

I should have added 'lighthearted' to the title and not used the word 'hysteria'.

I know it's serious and dangerous and there are red alerts in place.

I know it's not hilarious.

I expect most people are being pretty pragmatic but you would never think so from the news coverage, the tabs in particular having reached quite a pitch of hysteria.

Yes, it’s hilarious OP. In fact, that’s another rib gone from the uncontrollable laughter

My DH, teenage DD and I have been snowed in since Tuesday night.

All of the roads here are impassable, with snow drifts burying stranded vehicles. Local farmers have been trying to clear roads for 48 hours without success.

It’s not funny. It’s not hysteria. It’s real and it’s actually quite unnerving.

People stuck in cars for 18hrs in -5 overnight.

A1 is actually closed in NE.

Essential services not getting through to vulnerable people relying on carers for hot meals etc.

Not to mention the deaths.

Yes it a laugh fucking riot.

Forgiven, OP

People round here aren't taking the red warning seriously, considering how many are pulling into our local pub - sideways at times. Twats.

Adding lighthearted to a thread doesn't mean everybody has to agree with you