MartinL
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A thick layer of snow is initself a good insulator.
Has nobody been North of Birmingham between November and March????
Problem is that in the south we are often unprepared for it and then the good old safety Elf rears it's ugly head.
I put it down to the Schools / Local authorities, who have carried out some way-out risk assessment.
Something like;
If someone slips over they may stumble into the Bus cue, at the precise time that the school bus arrives (which due to the snow is unable to stop) & ploughs over all the little children. Resulting in multiple deaths and the driver suing the school!
In the meantime, most teachers will take a look out of the window 1/2 an hour after they'd have got up (if there hadn't been a "Yellow weather warning") just to make sure it really has snowed!
Then hop back into their warm bed in their 20+dec centrally heated bedroom!
Has nobody been North of Birmingham between November and March????
Problem is that in the south we are often unprepared for it and then the good old safety Elf rears it's ugly head.
I put it down to the Schools / Local authorities, who have carried out some way-out risk assessment.
Something like;
If someone slips over they may stumble into the Bus cue, at the precise time that the school bus arrives (which due to the snow is unable to stop) & ploughs over all the little children. Resulting in multiple deaths and the driver suing the school!
In the meantime, most teachers will take a look out of the window 1/2 an hour after they'd have got up (if there hadn't been a "Yellow weather warning") just to make sure it really has snowed!
Then hop back into their warm bed in their 20+dec centrally heated bedroom!
So,
Here we are after one and a half days of snow!
Only one of the three police officers in our village has gone to work!
The other two, BOTH traffic officers are sat at home skiving off due to the "unexpected bad weather" while the little old lady next door has been out every day to help her son with his sheep 20 miles away!
Their cars sit covered in the 3" of snow that has managed to "cut them off" from their duties on the roads while everyone else is somehow unaffected?
Strange then that, only a few years ago (during the fuel protests) that their cars were able to jump to the front of those waiting in line at the petrol stations due to their "essential" need to attend work?
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