BS: OK, England does have 1 fault

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: sian, west wales
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 04:07 PM

Yep, Beccy. I'm from Port Colborne ('bout 20 miles west of Buffalo). We KNOW about snow, don't we??? All together now: WE REMEMBER 1977*! Woosey English. It ain't real snow until the telephone poles are almost covered and you have to find houses by watching where the lines dip down into the snowbank.

sian

* please tell me you remember 1977. You may be one of those sweet young things who weren't around then. ((((sigh))))

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Beccy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 03:41 PM

Hey,was it yesterday? I thought it was today. (Assuming you're listening to W H A M, too)

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 03:34 PM

yuppers! yesterday was the first day this year without snow!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Beccy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 03:31 PM

MMario- We're between Buffalo and Rochester- I'm giving you the tally from Roch's airport. We didn't measure here, and the news weather team doesn't often drag themselves out to the woods to tell the disparity between burgh and valley, but I'm sure we got more than that. We're in a snowbelt off of Lake Erie so we usually get nailed. I just figured 140 was impressive enough if they shut everything down for a dusting (that's anything under 12" if you ask me...)
BTW, I'm a Yooper (Upper Peninsula of Michigan for those of you who don't know...)born and bred... so I know snow!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 03:06 PM

well Im not impressed It took me nearly 2 hours to get home for a journey that is only ONE stop on the tube which takes 10 minutes max....they closed the line.....due to adverse weather conditions....we don't even have any snow in East London!! Apparently the lines had frozen......


Oh well

Cat

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 02:56 PM

you downstate Beccy? That seems awful light

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Beccy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 02:53 PM

In NY state, USA- our current snow tally for this winter is 140 inches. Yeeeeehah!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 02:49 PM

Up here in Scotland we have real weather. What you southern effete mob had yesterday, was a mere flash in the pan.
Giok.
Good King Wenceslar got pissed, on the feast of Stephen.
Said the fuzz we know you're pissed, into this bag you're breathing
Brightly shone the crystals green,due to excess wassail
Christmas is a groovy scene. God bless Barbara Castle.

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 10:02 AM

Shandy drinking southern pooftahs! A few flakes o' the white stuff and they're chucking their teddies out 'cos nanny hasn't made it easy for them!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 09:55 AM

Southern snow.

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 09:51 AM

What snow?

Sarah
(in green but cold Huddersfield)

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: greg stephens
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 09:05 AM

Well the news is full of people wingeing away as usual because they got stuck in their cars or lorries and the powers that be havent cleared all the snow away and got them out. Seems to me we've got perfectly efficient weather forecats: there's nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to say you've got a sacred right to drive your car anytime anywhere whatever the weather. Stay home and enjoy it. It'll all be melted in no time, and the gritters will soon be round.
And if youve got to go out, make sure youve got a few Kitkats. That'll see you through a day or two in a drift.

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Mr Happy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 09:04 AM

when i sang this song some years ago, an audient asked why on earth couldn't nelly retrace her own footprints in the sow.

a bit of quick thining from me, i repiled 'it was too dark to see!'

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Jeanie
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 09:00 AM

What a lovely song, Mr. Happy. Thank you !
All I can say is, it's a good job Harry Wright went after Nellie, and wasn't in Waitrose car park last night on *my* trail... Even my size 6 footprints disappeared totally in the blizzard in less than a minute - we had 4 inches of snow in under half an hour. Never seen anything like it.   A tough assignment even for old Wenceslas and his page. Could have done with a team of huskies to pull my shopping trolley.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Strupag
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 08:41 AM

S'no fair!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Mr Happy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 08:37 AM

Footprints in the Snow (Harry Wright)

Some lovers like the summertime, when they can stroll about,
Spooning in the meadows may be grand without a doubt,
But give to me the wintertime, for the girl I have made mine,
Was captured while the snow was on the ground.

Chorus:

I traced her little footprints in the snow,
I traced her little footprints in the snow,
I bless that winter's day, when Nellie lost her way,
And I traced her little footprints in the snow.

I called to see the girl I loved one winter's afternoon,
But she had gone out walking, they informed me very soon,
They said she'd strolled away, but where they could not say,
So I started off to find her in the snow.
Chorus.

I saw her little footprint just outside the cottage door,
I traced it down a country lane, I traced it to the moor,
I found she'd lost her way; there she stood in blank dismay,
Not knowing where to steer for in the snow.
Chorus.

I called her, she saw me, and as we were walking home,
She promised me that never more without me she would roam,
I'm happy now for life, for her I've made my wife,
Whose footprints I traced plainly in the snow.
Chorus:

I traced her little footprints in the snow,
I traced her little footprints in the snow,
I bless that winter's day, when Nellie lost her way,
And I traced her little footprints in the snow.

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Mr Happy
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 08:15 AM

wrong sort of snow!!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Trevor
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 08:12 AM

Snowed in twice this week here in beautiful South Shropshire. Gritters - that were luxury! In my day (and yesterday) we had to tunnel for two days, set up a bivvy, carry the car up the drive..... These kids of today.... don't know they're born!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: JudeL
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 07:29 AM

Trouble is in some places such as town centres for a few people to either drive too fast for the conditions and go sliding and block the roads or be so scared of going out of control that they barely move for the town to be gridlocked before the gritting lorries arrive, and
then no-one moves!

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 07:26 AM

And outside the kids are staying home from school and throwing snowballs.

I don't know about where you are Keith, but where we are the side roads are like skating rinks. Shallow snowm is more dangerous than deep snow when it melts and freezes again, as it will after the sun we've got this morning.

It looks beautiful.

The Engish tradition seems to be to make the most of minor emergencies, but to pull out the stops when it's a big one, and carry on regardless. A very healthy attitude.

Subject: RE: BS: OK, England does have 1 fault
From: Bagpuss
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 07:23 AM

I couldn't believe it when I watched the news last night. They went on for ages about the chaos in Southern England, but then when they showed pictures, the snow didn't look that deep. Just what I would call a decent coverage of snow. Then we got a couple of seconds about scotland - with the pictures showing huge snowdrifts and blizzards.

Subject: BS: OK, England has 1 fault
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 07:17 AM

Well, just the Home Counties really. (I'm still smarting from being called in a recent thread, a sanctimonious home counties know all. Ouch!)
You see, early last evening it snowed. Only for a couple of hours. Barely an inch or so.
There followed a clear night and today is fine and sunny.
London was paralysed for hours. All our schools and many businesses are closed. Eighteen hours later hundreds of people are still stranded in their cars.
What the Spanish Armada, Hitler's Luftwaffer and the IRA could never do, a few flakes of snow in January does every time.
Oh the hard times of old England.
Keith.