Posted on 01/06/2010 4:20:57 PM PST by pissant
As Britain ground to a standstill today in Arctic conditions, forecasters gave warning the country should brace itself for six more days of snow.
Parts of the country saw 1.5ft (47cm) of snow fall over night and the freezing temperatures are expected to continue for at least another two weeks.
Hospitals cancelled operations, schools were closed and the Armed Forces had to be called in to help clear roads. All airports were affected by delays and cancellations. The runway at Gatwick closed with more than 80 flights unable to take off.
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Yes, it is a beautiful place in the snow. BTT.
Mr. RR’s cousin in Wales sent me a message today. The town’s name is so long and nearly all consonants, I can’t remember what it is. Anyway, their natural gas (their normal heat source) is gone. They are collecting peat to burn in their stoves, and coal where they can find it. He is over 70 and has never experienced such a winter in Wales.....and he has lived there all his life.
Four below here and 60 MPH winds.(Black Hills of So Dak), but at least we have heat and lots of pellets for our two pellet stoves (much better than fireplaces). It’s been an espcially brutal winter for us. Our first big snow was in Oct. and the remnants are still on the ground.....and plenty more after that.
Not complaining. I love it. I can read and make soup.....and FReep.
Al Gore will never again show his face in public.
This winter, particularly the blizzard in Copenhagen during the globullsh*t summit has derailed the commies for a bit. But they’ll be back. Winter is my favorite time of year. The snowier, the better.
I was there on the south coast of England in Jan 1987 when they had what was then the worst winter in 100 years or so.
They only had a couple inches of snow and the temperature was only a bit below freezing. I could still take a quick trip to the phone box outside in just my sweats without discomfort (my room mate from Florida though he was going to die from the cold or something). Just a couple inches but it closed the whole place down, and nobody had a snow shovel or snow blower and there was no plowing of the roads.
This looks way worse, at least in terms of the amount of snow. They have no way to cope with this stuff. In Dickens’s day the Thames would freeze over and you could skate on it, but it hasn’t been anywhere close to that for a long time.
THE country is officially gripped by the worst winter since 1963, the Scottish Government warned yesterday.
The Borders was virtually CUT OFF under 18 inches of snow, as drivers abandoned their cars.
There is a town in Wales named llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Is that the one you were trying to think of?
I don’t think they have snow plows in the U.K, at least not in England.
Snicker......no, it is nearly that long, but not so many vowels.
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