It has snowed in Southern England!!!! !
It doesn't snow in Kent. Naturally the whole transport system failed. Gatwick Airport shut, the trains were trapped (it turned out that the de-icing wagons had been sent in for maintenance by the railway company - December being the best time, you see) and the motorways were blocked with jack-knifed lorries.
How much snow fallen? I'm guessing 10 inches?
ReplyDeleteDear Igi
ReplyDeleteAbout that. We just ain't set up for snow.
J
Sounds fun. We hit about 20" here but luckily they're a bit more prepared in Derbyshire (still ground to a halt for a bit though). I hear it even snowed in my old stomping ground of Dorset!
ReplyDeleteHey, John - did you catch my most recent post? A slightly different slant on the same issue!
ReplyDeleteYou poor blighters! Roll on summer!
ReplyDeleteDon't take this the wrong way..but I'm laughing. You see, I live in Canada and have yet to have seen a snowfall this year. Oh, I know it's coming and big time (anywhere between 4' and 6'). It's just the irony of it all is hard to resist.
ReplyDeleteAlmost every winter the first snow causes havoc here too, because the authorities always suprised by the snow. I smell incompetence in the air. :P
ReplyDeleteIt's been crap here in Gravesend.
ReplyDeleteWe only had a few inches East of London but it still cuased chaos. All the back roads were ice rinks and few lorry drivers seemed inclined to adjust their speed (or stopping distances) to accmidate.
ReplyDeleteMost of the snow has gone now but bracing for more bad weather on the way.
Dear Ethics
ReplyDeleteMy mothers relativescome from Durham. They are far more snow capable than us effete southerners.
J
Dear Drax
ReplyDeleteMy Cornish relative are whining about the arctic hell that is Newquay.
J
Dear Paul
ReplyDeleteSeconded,
J
Dear Viper.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine has emigrated south - from Medway here, to Calger! Yep Calgery is just south of the Medway Towns, he tells me.
J
Dear Igi
ReplyDeleteCertainly incompetence plays its part, but basically we get snow so infrequently that it is not worth having all the gear in place.
J
Dear Lurker
ReplyDeleteSo Gravesend got it as well. I went down to Whitstable and there was nothing.
J
Dear Lee
ReplyDeleteNext week is supposed to be bad.
J
Dear John
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I meant, I smell the incompetence of the hungarian authorities not yours. I possibly can't judge that from here.