How come this was forecast a week and a half ago, yet its shut down major transport links, airports have been closed, and there has been no end of car crashes. Yes, maybe this is the first time in 18 years this has happened, and we don't get it alot, but places like Heathrow Airport I would have thought would have been ready for such incident. And they would have runways and taxiways cleared to enable planes to move about. But no, 6 inches of snow and the entire country shuts down.Then we've got people who turn around and say "oh even though I only work 10-15minutes down the road, I can't get there". I managed to get to the dentists and around Hastings today, and I even went up to the gym, don't tell me you can't get to work. People who use trains and buses have a fair reason.
£1.2 billion has been lost today. This country should have been better prepared, and people shouldn't be so lazy. But no matter what you think it's pretty damn lovely to wake up to and look at. Now it'd be nice for it to go away.
*Photo copyright to the BBC by the way. They're probably not getting enough money from the TV licences at the moment and in the very slim event of them seeing this, they're likely to sue. Nothing any good to watch on there anyway*
Agreed. Not being prepared for extreme events like, I dunno, snow in winter, makes fools of authorities who are warned well in advance. Not to mention local authorities who don't grit the pavements until after the borough has turned into an ice rink. Because doing it before then would show some kind of forethought.
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