On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:48:38PM +0000, d wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:08:18 +0000
Anthony Polson wrote:
We cannot cope with snow because we don't get it every year so are not
Its becoming more common

And your evidence for this is what?

Sure, we've had snow for the last three (I think) winters, but you'd
expect that to happen occasionally even in a region that hardly ever
gets any snow.

--
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often.
Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:49:53 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:48:38PM +0000, d wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:08:18 +0000
Anthony Polson wrote:
We cannot cope with snow because we don't get it every year so are not
Its becoming more common

And your evidence for this is what?

Sure, we've had snow for the last three (I think) winters, but you'd
expect that to happen occasionally even in a region that hardly ever
gets any snow.

When did it last snow in the sahara? Anyway , the fact that it snows here
at all should be enough for them to get their act together but every year
it seems to come as a complete surprise that it snows in winter and every year
we get the same tired old excuses. Its pathetic.

B2003

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:51:57AM +0000, d wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:49:53 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
Sure, we've had snow for the last three (I think) winters, but you'd
expect that to happen occasionally even in a region that hardly ever
gets any snow.
the fact that it snows here
at all should be enough for them to get their act together

By which you mean that "they" should have snow-ploughs and gritters etc
ready to go?

Who's gonna pay for them? It's just not a good investment when they'd
hardly ever be used.

but every year
it seems to come as a complete surprise that it snows in winter

No it doesn't.

--
David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"

Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:03:52 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:51:57AM +0000, d wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:49:53 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
Sure, we've had snow for the last three (I think) winters, but you'd
expect that to happen occasionally even in a region that hardly ever
gets any snow.
the fact that it snows here
at all should be enough for them to get their act together

By which you mean that "they" should have snow-ploughs and gritters etc
ready to go?

Who's gonna pay for them? It's just not a good investment when they'd
hardly ever be used.

I've never once seen a Halon system in a computer room used in anger but
you can be damn sure every serious company has one installed in theirs.
What the hell is the cost of a couple of trucks and some grit compared to
the millions, possibly even billions lost when everything grinds to a halt?

B2003

In message , at 11:49:53
on Fri, 7 Dec 2012, David Cantrell remarked:
we've had snow for the last three (I think) winters, but you'd
expect that to happen occasionally even in a region that hardly ever
gets any snow.

It snowed in Nottingham when my children were about 13 or 14 (but only
for a day) and they said it was the first time their locally brought up
friends had ever seen snow. They, on the other hand, have lived in
several other parts of the country and are quite familiar with it, even
to the extent of being disappointed at winters were there's not enough
snow to make a snowman.
--
Roland Perry