Snow Shags

There’s a lot of talk in the news about the amount of money that the snow is costing the country. The problem for the UK, particularly the southern, UK is that we haven’t experienced harsh winters for years. Snow has been occasional and light and the weather during our winters is now warmish and damp. So when we get a lot of snow we don’t have the equipment to clear the roads or the skills to cope, e.g. driving.

The immediate cost to the economy is one thing, but there could be a little time bomb ticking for nine months time.

If like Suze and me you spent the day off work you may have occupied yourself the same way we did. That is, in bed, and I don’t mean sleeping.

OK so even if that is the case most people will have taken precautions … but accidents do happen.

So has anyone factored that into the cost of the bad weather?

2 thoughts on “Snow Shags

  1. No excuses over here. The snow tyres go on the car on 1st November and don’t come off till Easter! In the bad winter of 1980-81 (I think) Hampshire county council had a depot just outside Winchester where they kept all their stockpiles of salt, grit and bolt-on snowploughs. It was in an abandoned gravel pit, up a very narrow lane with high hedges to either side. When the snow came, they couldn’t get to it to fetch the stuff for three days!

  2. Your post reminded me of a clip I heard on the radio. The station was asking people to call in and tell them what they have given up because of the failing economy. One caller stated she gave up condoms! What??? I was laughing so hard because the folks at the radio station asked her if she felt the baby that would soon be on the way would cost her less?

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