I must admit I am somewhat perplexed as to the constant weather warnings. It seems to me that the news seems to think if they say it often enough we will believe the snow is bad. As my Dad said when he wakes up to more than 1 foot of snow he might start to get concerned
I love the snow and am somewhat disappointed with the latest snow fall. It’s nothing compared to what I remember as a child. Is it me or have we been slowly unconditioned to cope with such weather.
OK so yes parts of the country got caught out last year and were totally unprepared. Then again perhaps the severity wasn’t reported as vigorously as our few cm of snow on Saturday.
Yesterday I went to my local Tescos to do a bit of weekend shopping I was totally taken a back by the lack of food on the shelves and not a flake of snow had fallen at that point.
The more cynical side of me wouldn’t be at all surprised if the beefing up of the snow reports was a cunning plan to get everyone into the shops stripping the shelves and in panic buy mode just to knock the 1st quarter profits up. Many a true word said in jest!
I really don’t understand why everyone appears to be surprised it has snowed. For gods sake it is winter. That’s what is expected in the winter, Snow and freezing weather. We have so far got away with a very mild winter and a little bit of snow so far this year.
As for Heathrow and BA cancelling a third of its flights before the snow fell yet again only personal opinion but that’s like sticking a plaster on a gaping wound. The root cause of the problem from listening to the news is that Heathrow is at 99% air traffic capacity and planes can’t take off and land as quickly as they can in normal conditions so a small delay has a knock on affect. Well surely the problem is with the capacity and not allowing enough time between take off and landing. Perhaps that should be addressed. It seems to me if Heathrow is at 99% capacity they haven’t got a lot of room for manoeuvre should anything go wrong.