A bit of snow, airports shuts, roads gridlocked

What a pathetic country England is, the Bbc sent a reporter on the foot bridge on the M 62 to report jams then show a car that over turned in narrow lanes in Ainsey Top.
In Canada they carry on as normal with snow and ice.
Airports here had to queue for wing deicers, but the weather computers cost millions to forecast weather so they didn’t know it was coming.
Totally pathetic, it is winter, what do you expect ?

Welcome to great britain. One of, if not the only country in europe where you dont legally need winter tyres.

toby1234abc:
What a pathetic country England is, the Bbc sent a reporter on the foot bridge on the M 62 to report jams then show a car that over turned in narrow lanes in Ainsey Top.
In Canada they carry on as normal with snow and ice.
Airports here had to queue for wing deicers, but the weather computers cost millions to forecast weather so they didn’t know it was coming.
Totally pathetic, it is winter, what do you expect ?

The populated areas of the UK get snow maybe 1 or 2 days a year. Do you really expect all the airports and the highways departments to have millions upon millions of pounds of snow-clearing kit sat doing nothing for 363 days a year just for the off chance of being needed if it snows more than an inch? Be realistic please. The reason why Canada and places like Scandinavia cope well is because they have snow for 50% of the year, ergo the investment into the kit makes perfect financial sense. It does not here in Blighty.

Carl Usher:

toby1234abc:
What a pathetic country England is, the Bbc sent a reporter on the foot bridge on the M 62 to report jams then show a car that over turned in narrow lanes in Ainsey Top.
In Canada they carry on as normal with snow and ice.
Airports here had to queue for wing deicers, but the weather computers cost millions to forecast weather so they didn’t know it was coming.
Totally pathetic, it is winter, what do you expect ?

The populated areas of the UK get snow maybe 1 or 2 days a year. Do you really expect all the airports and the highways departments to have millions upon millions of pounds of snow-clearing kit sat doing nothing for 363 days a year just for the off chance of being needed if it snows more than an inch? Be realistic please. The reason why Canada and places like Scandinavia cope well is because they have snow for 50% of the year, ergo the investment into the kit makes perfect financial sense. It does not here in Blighty.

Yes and then they’d be moaning when there council tax went up to pay for all this equipment left standing 99.9% of the year :exclamation:

Came across the 62 about half seven.nothing to see here.