Annual bad weather Contingency planning.

I *hate* dual carriageways for this very reason.... People usually tell me I'll be fine in the snow in my landy/pinzgauer, not until it's legal to drive over everyone else!

If your patrol area included the A303 you'd be able to feed the world.. That road is packed with nutters.

Great! That'll keep the BMW's off the road then :-)

Richard

I'm off to Aitrag in Germany the weekend after next. I chickened out and decided not to drive so I'm being collected from Munich by the locals who deal with snow four months of the year are doing transport.

We are promised ice you can park your car on and we're going scuba diving. It's either going to be lots of fun or the exact opposite. I hope the former.

nigelH

Oh, the annual cermony of the Southern Region Light Dusting of Snow Causing Chaos comes round again.

The best yet is the lunatic advice from the DoT about "not making journeys unless essential". I'd love to know how those of us who are self-employed can afford to not go to work. Particularly those of us whose work just happens to be driving. Years ago (before my time, ducky) people managed to carry on life much as normal with much much heavier snow all winter. And I'm sure some of our more northerly members have been coping perfectly well with the much heavier snow that has been around.

Alex

And this is the week the Disco chooses to have a blob strop and check herself into the dealer's! And the S2a is out of action with a noisy diff/prop/driver/whatever.

Nemmind, weather man says Pembrokeshire will *just* miss all the white stuff that the rest of you are getting :-(

(Makes you laugh though - when I lived in N Lincs, and the drifts reached six *feet*, you started talking about disruption. For the Laandaan weatherati, six *inches* is enough to cause a nationwide panic.)

DONUT time!!!!!

Nowt better than a 4wd car with 230bhp in SNOWWWWWWWWW!

So chuckable, it just makes me wee!!

They won't know what 6 inches is, 6cm is more to their understanding.

I see Dudley has closed their schools for tommorow already, before any snow had even fallen on the high parts of Cornwall let alone got to the Midlands...

YOU'VE got problems. Mine is a 2 wheel 4x4.

Steve

For the Laandaan

No problem, they're raising the congestion charge for people who can get through it (in 4x4s) so they can buy a gritter for the for the panicstricken. :-)

Martin

On or around Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:41:09 +0000, Alex enlightened us thusly:

wouldn't be much point me trying to do my job - the schools are closed. and yes, it'll cost me a day's income.

On or around Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:22:59 -0000, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

actually, the 4x4 sierra is great fun in the snow too, with "only" 150bhp

Well GMTV (I know, but the Mem likes it...) had their usual ex-KYTV reporters scattered aroung the country, desperately tyring to find a snow covered side road to stand in front of this morinig.

The weather girl informed us that it's the "worst snow in 10 years....... ". Right, so it's snowing in London then ;-)

Richard

Must be interesting keeping it upright! Or are the wheels at one end?

Richard

Bah....400bhp and 3 tons is not as much fun as it should be ... or is that just niggling "if you bash it - you have to pay to fix it" thought ;-)

On or around Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:24:36 -0000, "Neil Brownlee" enlightened us thusly:

yer need a nice big snowy car park, with not too much "furniture".