Oh yes, I know, OYBBK, I just can't believe how weather illiterate people are about stuff that affects them so much! I mean, we have plenty of experience of how very local weather can be, especially with snow. Surely, if people are making decisions that affect others, they should be checking the most specifically local forecast they can get?
I also think there's a big element of mistrust of weather forecasts, though. Both at the beginning and the end of this spell of snow, it seems that people have been reluctant to believe that the weather will be significantly different to what they see out of their window. Two hours before all the kids had to be collected from school on Wednesday, with people getting stranded left, right and centre, the deputy head was posting "Ha ha, not a snowflake where I am!". Yet there was a yellow warning in place, there was a very clear forecast of snow that had been in place for about a week without changing much...
Now they're all going "Oh we won't open tomorrow, freezing rain, more snow, etc etc", when to me it looks like everything will have melted tomorrow, and they're listening to generalised forecasts off the radio.
Or maybe I'll be eating my words tomorrow.......