So these conditions aren't rare, yet they don't normally last this long? Perhaps that's precisely why they're rare???? Normally we get a snowfall and it's gone within a day or so. This has been going on for 3 weeks where I live, with snow, a freeze, slush, another freeze, snow, days of freezing weather, etc, etc, all topped off by 24 hours of heavy snow up until this evening.

I cannot recall such prolonged snow on the ground, so many snowfalls, such low temperatures all together over a 3-week period. I'm not of your advanced years but I can remember back well over 25 years, and Channel 4 have just stated this is the worst cold snap for 30 years.

And you think they [ididn't[/i stockpile before the winter?? Perhaps, just perhaps, there have been such prolonged and therefore unexpected conditions existing supplies have run out and are being replenished daily as they are thrown out onto the busiest and most vital routes day after day. Folk in Moscow get months of hellish snow every year. That is why they are prepared. We normally get a few days of snow and a few icey nights, and that's what we prepare for, with a few contingencies for harsher weather. Of course we could prepare for these conditions every year, have dozens of unused gritters sitting around for 20 years until they might be needed, hire additional staff just in case and add £50 to your council tax to pay for it all?


Yes, the bstards. Making it snow like that.

Quite simply the most interesting thread on here for weeks, some of the patter is great entertainment

One regular poster on this thread seriously needs Laid or he will explode.

A trouser bursting 11 inches here in Stockport today.. Enjoy the snow if you can

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I work for the council so had to go in... They closed the service I work for at about 1pm though so everybody headed for home. Loads of people couldn't get in... It took me an hour and a half to just get from Goose Green to Golborne... And an hour of that was spent queueing on Warrington Road near Sainsbury's!

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No a student, but thank you.

And there is a God - St John Rigby has been closed for another day

Makes me laugh how some people have a big sulking hissy fit over the weather. "Why aren't the council making it go away?"

Just deal with it, see the funny side of it and it'll all be gone before you know it. All this talk of lawsuits if someone slips on a bit of ice is absolutely nonsensical.

Just think what people in the past have had to deal with or people in other parts of the world right now. I feel embarrassed for some people with the attitudes they show.

have seen the unemployment figures?
its not beyond the bounds of the council to employ TEMPS over winter, like shops do for christmas., then if the snow comes we have the man power.

but what about the means?

like a later poster says (im not quoting so i dont post twice) they DO stockpile grit and salt.
so why dont they stockpile it year in year out and let the pile get bigger for occasions like these?
its called forward thinking......sumat most local authorities have never heard of.

i would be happy for the council to employ extra men, spend extra on stockpiles, if it meant i could get off my estate to go shopping and that my bin got emptied.

And what would these temps do?

Back Lane wasn't too bad.
However it does seem that they're only gritting from Hullet Close upwards, must be going through Woodnook estate.
If it freezes the bottom is going to be frightening.
Apparently somebody has been skiing down it today

In Sheffield they have CIty Centre Ambassadors, I'm not entirely certain what they do other than just wander around looking like they feel important. Today a few council peeps were out shovelling snow while said ambassadors did bugger all. I saw at least six of them just wandering about A few more shovels and grit and things would have been much easier.

It was like a ghost town though, spookily quiet in the centre as no one could get there!