To get really fed up with the London based media having a massive panic about a bit of snow.....?

[nuttysquirrel]

Sorry I have to get this off my chest..... but l just get fed up with the London based media having a massive panic about a few cms of snow. Its laughable, they have reporters standing out in it, solemnly reporting like its a major crisis instead of just winter weather in err.... winter?!!
I live in Scotland and hey there has already been a bit of snow for a few weeks before Christmas......no panic about that. So why should the rest of the country have to put up with ludicrous reports taking up space in the national news when Kent (for example) gets a small amount of snow in winter... personally I would like news coverage of the really important things going on in the rest of the world.....

The best bit was that it was going to be bitterly cold overnight. What? Minus 10, minus 12? No, minus 3. ROFL.

right

so when it's minus 3 it's barbecue weather for the northerners is it?

Well our overnight temperatures went down to minus 14 in December, and didn't rise above zero at all for about 2 weeks. Not a mention.

I meant didn't rise above zero in the daytime for 2 weeks. Minus 3 is pretty reasonable up here.

Oh BTW, I used to get excited about snow before I moved up here. Now I live on a hill and I hate the bloody stuff. Thinking of emigrating to Dubai.

that is probably not even true

how can life be sustained in that sort of environment? are you on a polar ice cap?

Nope, but pretty far north in the UK. And it is true, honestly. And quite normal, which is probably why it isn't reported.

minus fourteen though

shudders

i live in london. london is not the center of the universe...however My son IS the center of my universe and i'm soo pissed off.

1. because seriously i thought londoners would have gone outside and realized a little snow is nothing to be intimidated by.

1. My son has been in and out of the hospital for the past two weeks and finally today was the day he was going to see a specialist because and we had to wait a week to get an appointment for today...and we were listed as an emergencythe doctor couldn't get in today and they can't reschedule our appointment till later this week-but we'll have to wait again

1. even the private dr's are acting like they are too delicate to be touched by a snowflake. stupid pussies. i had made an appointment with a private consultant last week and he shoved me off to st marys emergency clinic...now i've called another 5 pediatric consultant practices and i've gotten nothing but answering machines all day. stupid losers. i hope all of their water pipes freeze and then burst to flood them all in their homes tomorrow.

We're not intiminated by the snow, we loved it thanks. We don't drive the trains or the buses though or decide whether to shut the schools, we just had a snow day because we had no other choice.

Sorry your circumstances are so difficult at the moment but wishing bad things on other people isn't really going to change it. Hope you get to see the dr soon.

Is not panic, is excitment.

Londoners hardly ever get snow, so when we do it is sooo exciting! It is the first time since I moved to London that I have seen snow like it.

Oh, and it isnt a few cm's where I am - more like 8-12 inches....

LOVE IT! [GRIN]