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Southerners can't drive in the snow...........Fact
Quote by flower411
I hear the French love a good spit roast...
Not sure how the word méchoui (French for spit roast lamb) works there.. Must ask one of our French friends that one...
Hate to be pedantic but isn`t mechoui North African ? I knew an Algerian artisan du batiment who had a little side line in roasting whole lamb on a spit .... he claimed to be the best in the region
but having eaten some of it I really can`t argue with his assessment !You could well be right... But Algeria was a French territory after all and many Algerians were granted French citizenship as part of the separation so some traditions would have been 'inherited'.
Sex God
Quote by Rogue_Trader
Was just going to post our "light dusting" in Devon...Folks don't realise a lot of Dartmoor is above 300 metres and some of it at 600 metres.
I know only too well.
Quote by Geordiecpl2001
Saw all the mayhem on the news about the Southerners getting stuck in the snow !!!!
What snow? There was less than 1" on the roads on the reports I saw.
In the North, we wouldn't break out a 4x4 unless there was about 4" on the roads, 1" isn't a snowfall to us, it's a light dusting !!
Apocalypse (S)now !!!
Ok, I'm standing by for the abuse.
John
I'm sure your post is tongue-in-cheek, but even so you might like to remember that those people stuck in their cars all night did so when it was freezing and it would have been far from pleasant.
Many would have been less than a 20 minute drive from where I live but they couldn't move in any direction due to untreated roads and so on. Not much snow had fallen, but the heavy winds had caused a lot of drifting and it was probably worse than it looked on the telly.
No one would have stayed stuck all night if there had been an alternative. It must have been a pretty horrible experience to be stuck whilst cold, hungry and tired.
I'll admit I can't drive in the snow, mainly as I was never really shown how too. It's not covered in driving lessons and no one needs to prove their driving in snow skills to pass their driving test.
I hope you are trying to be funny but if not, maybe a little compassion for your fellow humanbeings is in order ?
Sex God
A regular problem that we get - not just here, it was the same in Germany last week - is perfectly drivable snow packing down and then freezing overnight to a white, lumpy ice-rink. I have a solution. A removable fitting on a gritting lorry or just about any snow-friendly large, heavy vehicle, that comprises a rigid roller, wrapped in a thick layer of resilient material - such as dense rubber - into which short, blunt metal studs are fitted. The studs will flex into the rubber without damaging the road surface and break up the packed snow. This allows the salt to work its way in and the rest of the traffic to work the broken pieces into slush. It would roll at its own speed, it doesn't need a drive-gear of any kind and could be on an adjustable frame that would cope with 2 to 12 inches of depth.
Any entrepreneurs out there fancy making this happen?
The problem we have with gritters and "councils not reacting correctly" is that in a hard snowfall the grit is simply buried and takes ages to have any effect from underneath. Gritting onto a few inches of loose snow isn't much better. It has most effect if it goes down onto/before frost or onto clear road before a steady snowfall that gives it time to melt the snow before it gets overwhelmed.
Any entrepreneurs out there fancy making this happen?
The problem we have with gritters and "councils not reacting correctly" is that in a hard snowfall the grit is simply buried and takes ages to have any effect from underneath. Gritting onto a few inches of loose snow isn't much better. It has most effect if it goes down onto/before frost or onto clear road before a steady snowfall that gives it time to melt the snow before it gets overwhelmed.
Quote by foxylady2209
The problem we have with gritters and "councils not reacting correctly" is that in a hard snowfall the grit is simply buried and takes ages to have any effect from underneath. Gritting onto a few inches of loose snow isn't much better. It has most effect if it goes down onto/before frost or onto clear road before a steady snowfall that gives it time to melt the snow before it gets overwhelmed.
Foxy we are in 2013 and it simply is bad management from tight local councils to save money. In adverse weather conditions this country has the ability to use every dirty trick in the book to blame everything else, except their own failings. You know the things......wrong kind of rain, or the leaves, or the wrong kind snow, or........
The real facts here are these companies are just too damn tight to spend the necessary money to prevent these things from happening, and using every trick in the book with their weak excuses. This snow was indeed a light dusting and yet because of these councils not doing the right thing so as to save money, they left the roads untreated until it was too late to do anything about it.
The rail companies companies blame the leaves, the airport authorities blame the wrong kinds of snow, the councils just blame everything else except themselves which is pretty much par for the course for councils. They were to blame for yet another weather fiasco as they are every year when snow is forecast and then falls, and nobody else.
