Nor do the locals pay extortionate prices to them

And of course, if councils were to maintain fleets of under-utilised gritters and snow ploughs there would be equal outcry at the inappropriate prioritisation of public money.

Exactly.

At the end of the day no matter how well they grit or plough it aint gonna get your signal back up

Really? Had it stopped snowing?

Snow storms usually knocks out Sky.. simple as that. Did mine last night as well.

Its every year now Kosh, we should be prepared.

Somehow, I thought that might be the case.

Don't know why i bothered though cos the wife watched bleedin soaps anyway.

get multiroom

Got mutliroom but the card is otherwise engaged

The snow last week was the worst for 18 years. Should we have been 'prepared' for that? If so, how?

The petty disruptions caused by our normal snowfalls should be dealt with better, but once-in-two-decades events are hard to plan for unless you want to spend a lot of taxpayers cash on equipment that will gather dust for most of it's lifetime.

Your missing my point mate. We might have had the worst snow in 18 years, im not disagreeing with that. What i am saying is that we dont cope with snow full stop. I drive to York every day for work and on numerous occasions per year we have snow. Each and every time we have snow be it 3 inches or 18 inches etc we struggle as a country to deal with it. We know its going to come dont we. (in some form or other)

Same as the heat as i mentioned earlier leading to hose pipe bans etc. We know we are going to get some heat at some point, we just fail to cope with it then either.

try switching off at mains and back on again worked for me just hope the dam thing records the game tonight !