Quote wigan pie man="wigan pie man"bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have they never heard of ROCK SALT
stick that down at the first signs of freeze and snow will melt.
SNOW PLOUGHS ?
THESE CONDITIONS ARNT RARE.....its just that it doesnt normally last this long.
if they stockpiled salt, and invested in snow ploughs we would be in this mess.
last weekend when we had a partial thaw, i cleared my paths and drive and pavement by my house (at a price i may add)
so why the fook didnt the council get a few JCBs and clear the roads? it was coming up in layers.
caught with out pants down every year at -5 and a bit of snow, whilst folk in Moscow are getting to work in 4 ft of snow and -35'"
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 [i
didn'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?
Quote wigan pie man="ROBINSON"Have they f*cking hell.
This snow debacle neatly sums up just how useless, selfish and uncaring Wigan Council are.'"
Yes, the bstards. Making it snow like that.
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