Rant Whingeing Pom...

[Notebook]

Three weeks the snow has been here, looks like it will be here for another three weeks!
We are not used to this in England, should be one day of snow, publc transport fails, lost week-end, then three days of slush.
This is abnormal!

View from back-door:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/IMGP1072cc.jpg
View from front-door:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/IMGP1076cc.jpg

Can't get to the shops:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/Car/IMGP1056.jpg

Poor Shep, he would have loved those bones...

N.

 

[jedidia]

It's also abnormal that we had around 20 degree C at december 31. Travnik is supposed to be one of the coldest areas in bosnia, and at new year temperatures are usually around 30 to 40! degrees lower.

It's kind of nice, but there's no telling what this will do to the already feeble tourist industry...

So, give us back our snow, you thieves!

 

[Notebook]

Feel free, take as much as you need!

That is an extreme temperature variation, its not much colder than normal, its usually dry in Decemeber.

Its not Bosnia, but its close! A friend and his wife went to Slovenia last year, enjoyed it a lot. Though their guide had to warn them about minefields. They are in the Czech Republic for the New Year, probably drinking too much...

N.

 

[Lucy]

I love how the snow manages to take us by surprise every year. Like we suddenly can't forecast the weather or something.

Roll on Spring, where I can get out of bed without having to go off and cling to a radiator for an hour just to warm up.

 

[garyw]

Try living in Kent where a single snow-flake anywhere in the county leaves SouthEastern railway cancelling all services due to "poor rail conditions". It's insane that a few snowflakes can leave a 'modern' railway system in tatters.

 

[T.Neo]

Roll on Spring, where I can get out of bed without having to go off and cling to a radiator for an hour just to warm up.

Gah, bugger...

Spring for you means Autumn for those of us in the southern hemisphere. And Autumn leads to the dreaded cold-time... I DON'T LIKE THE COLD-TIME!!!

:rofl:

 

[Linguofreak]

I understand the snow we've been getting here in Cottbus is a bit more than the usual, but after having lived in Dallas with almost no snow and infernally hot, humid summers, I'm loving it...

 

[Brycesv1]

I love how the snow manages to take us by surprise every year. Like we suddenly can't forecast the weather or something.

its the same here. every year it snows, then rains, then turns to ice, then returns to normal. its amazing how the average human IQ drops when it gets cold out. everyone freaks out and acts like the sky is falling... one flake at a time.

 

[Urwumpe]

My theory is that this kind of behavior is all denial - it isn't snowing here, this white stuff isn't slippery, that explains then how somebody can slide at 60 km/h through a frozen road despite having many chances to correct the error...

I am travelling home today, and you can bet, the shortest part of the way home, the exactly one hour long train connection from Berlin-Spandau to Wolfsburg, will be the most sensible...

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

You should be thankful for that snow.
I wish I had that much snow, because then I would be able to take tomorrow off due to “impassable roads”. I call such days a “snoliday”.

 

[Lucy]

It's insane that a few snowflakes can leave a 'modern' railway system in tatters.

There's no such thing as a modern train. As Clarkson puts it, the train is a "Victorian Age relic". It's not that surprising that snow flummoxes it, really. Though the amount required to do so is quite embarrassing, really.

But, then again, the UK no longer leads the way in technology and we haven't for quite some time. Just take a look at average broadband connection quality and speed compared to the US or Japan... or even the Koreans...

 

[Andy44]

That Victorian Age Relic transports ungodly tonnage of freight across continents, though. No better way to do it overland.

Here in the DC area it's BITTER cold outside, been in the 20s F for 2 days and very gusty icy wind that drives you to pull your coat up over your face.

I love the cold, but I could do with a little less wind.

 

[garyw]

A Victorian age steam train was the only train that beat the snow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/8428097.stm

 

[DaveS]

Here in the DC area it's BITTER cold outside, been in the 20s F for 2 days and very gusty icy wind that drives you to pull your coat up over your face.

20° F? That's rather warm considering we have been having temperatures go as low as -14°F(-25° C) the last week! For now, the temperature has been a bit higher at 6°F.

 

[Linguofreak]

There's no such thing as a modern train.

Well, in the US there certainly isn't. But the rest of the world seems to have fairly good trains, although I've heard complaints from a lot of British folk as to the quality of the British rail system in general.

Coming from the US, though, I find rail transport in Germany to be delightful.

 

[Tex]

It's a brisk 45°F here in the Houston area.

 

[T.Neo]

But the rest of the world seems to have fairly good trains

Unless you come to South Africa, where you're lucky to get off the train without being murdered, being thrown off, the train being gutted or set alight.

So... yeah. For what it's worth, we at least have a rail system.

 

[Urwumpe]

The trains don't advance that much today, but the infrastructure around the trains is nowhere the same what you had in the past. A modern railway is a real masterpiece, despite looking pretty simple.

 

[insanity]

There's no such thing as a modern train. As Clarkson puts it, the train is a "Victorian Age relic".

Clarkson's Victorian train nearly beat May's classic car and destroyed Hammond's motorbike.

 

[the.punk]

Wow. This is white.
A few weeks ago we had very cold temperatures here (about -15°C). It's now over o°C but the weather forecast says it will get again colder.