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Snowing
Darren:
I think it's rather a sad state of affairs. If the kids and mums can manage to get there then it can only be an excuse on the authorities part.
I wonder how many other workers will be given the day off so off handedly.
The main problem of course is all the parents that "have" to go to work with kids now at home.
The schools and coledges are shut here and there is not even any snow on the roads :doh:
The postman has just delivered.
in my day etc, etc,
slowcoach:
Yep, one flake of snow and the whole country comes to a grinding halt. I blame the media for most of the hysterics. I'm afraid to say we live in a health and safety world these days ::)
(oh no, I'm starting to sound like my dad :bugeye: cue Hovis music)...
Fred Bloggs:
oh no, I'm starting to sound like my dad cue Hovis music)...
SHMBO has been saying that I'm starting to sound like my dad "through gritted teeth when she does", and I'm only 43,I dont feel that old, probably due to my youngest (daughter) only being 5 years old and "full of it"!!!!!
PS keeps trying to snow in Stoke (at work) but not sticking , go 5 miles further north and there's 6 inch's, typical :bang:
AdeV:
FINALLY, it's started snowing here in the Wirral - having missed out on all the pre-xmas snow. First snow I've seen in 3 years (but then, this is the first UK winter I've seen for 3 years, having successfully avoided the last 2).
The reason schools close the instant there's a threat of snow is simple: insurance. If little Johnny or Chavette fall over on a snowed-up playground & hurt themselves (whether it's just bruised pride, right up to broken limbs), Miss Chavette - the single mum - will sue the school/LEA for everything they can get; and, given the court's predilection to pay the "victim" in such cases (q.v. the McDonalds "hot coffee" case in the US, and a similar one here in the UK), not to mention the ambulance-chasing no-win no-fee lawyers making it a no-brainer to try to claim, means that insurance costs for schools must be through the roof; and probably stipulate when the place has to be closed due to inclement weather.
So, as much as I'd love to blame the schools & teachers.... I can't, because it's really OUR fault for letting the scumbags get away with claiming compensation for everything & anything.
Bernd:
6" of snow shuts you guys down. :lol:
Here in New York state near Lake Ontario they got 52" of snow just over the weekend. A few schools closed but that's all.
What the heck would you guys do if it snowed that much over there? Hibernate till summer? :lol:
Bernd
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