Heavy snow hits the UK
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Many train and bus cancellations have been in place as well as severe disruptions in airports as Gatwick Airports are tempory closed. The Met Office has issued a Severe Weather warning.
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benfreckle916
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this British are freaking out about the tiniest amount of snow.
- 3 years ago
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benfreckle916
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karlos_dawise
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i love it when it snows like this alot of people take the day off work, kids are off school and spirts are high. for one day people are nice to each other, help each other up when they fall, and the whole cuntry looks plesent and peacefull...
i hope it snow alot more tuesday night so i can take a couple of days off..
- 3 years ago
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karlos_dawise
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Vierotchka
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This kind of winter used to be the norm, on the milder side, up to about thirty years ago. I remember one year in the early sixties where the snow was deep and remained until late May early June. By then, its surface was black from pollution.
Fifteen centimeters is not much at all, either. I wouldn't call this snowfall particularly heavy - it wouldn't have been considered as such thirty years ago.
- 3 years ago
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Vierotchka
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krush_productions
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they're so lucky...the mountain here is getting a little bare...
- 3 years ago
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krush_productions
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lj111
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snow and ice everywhere--wake up al gore and let him see it.
- 3 years ago
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lj111
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justwannafindmytrue
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Man I get this kind of snow every weekend in the winter, whats the big deal?
- 3 years ago
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justwannafindmytrue
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LozRiva
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I'm freezin' :(
- 3 years ago
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LozRiva
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abbym0308
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The best video I've seen so far from today's snow mess.
- 3 years ago
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abbym0308
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EclecticBadger
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Winter weather is a great way to study the differences between male and female driving technique.
When on snow, the female is cautious and steady, considering every shift of gear moving off safely if not overly slowly.
The male (and particularly those of the white van driver species) drives hard into the snow and if forced to stop will pull away by spinning the wheels as fast as possible - and I speculate - in order to melt the snow through friction until upon hitting that 10cm square patch of exposed tarmac, lurches forward a couple of metres, to stall and repeat.
Watching is such fun :)
- 3 years ago
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EclecticBadger
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graemesmith
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Its about as much pleasure as you can have in the middle of a harsh winter, christmas out the way, in the grip of a massive recession. A bit of mild chaos and a free day off was just what we needed!
- 3 years ago
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graemesmith
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mattbrawn
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Surely £1.2bn is a small price to pay for the mother of all snowball fights.
Trafalgar Sq. 6.20pm. Get your warface on.
- 3 years ago
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mattbrawn
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AnnieMole
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Cost of this morning's snow to UK businesses has been estimated at over £1.2bn. That's a lot!
- 3 years ago
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AnnieMole
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richjm
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Twitter's taken off, as per usual in shared events like this. All around the UK, people have been 'tweeting' ratings of the snow in their area and inserting the tag #uksnow, i.e. "#uksnow E9 6/10"
That info is then automatically used to create a real time UK snow map mashup. It's not entirely accurate as one man's 4/10 snow is an another's 8/10. Plus we're British and we get over-excited about these sorts of things so everyone is giving the white stuff a 10. As the word 'mashup' is used though, it's in the Twitter rules to go nuts and proclaim this is the future of social media.
- 3 years ago
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richjm
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saverio
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richjm:
It's totally the future of social media! Seriously, though, today Twitter's the only thing that works in the Capital city of Twitter.
- 3 years ago
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saverio
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tursiops
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It also snowed in Dublin, Ireland but less so it's ok, nothing here is affected.
- 3 years ago
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tursiops
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mattbrawn
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Here's my backgraden avec Yeti footprints.
- 3 years ago
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mattbrawn
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richjm
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We harp on about Blitz spirit and London soldiering on during the war but I reckon it's all exaggerated if today's anything to go by. A bit of snow and the entire transport network closes down.
I walked as far as the tube and even that was closed. It's underground! It definitely doesn't snow underground. I've checked.
- 3 years ago
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richjm
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mattbrawn
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According to Friends Provident, today's National Sickie Day, with them expecting 30,000 people to call in sick. I think they'll be a few more than that notmaking it into the office.
- 3 years ago
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mattbrawn
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Mr_Costello
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A snowman I met in Bloomsbury on the way to work this morning.
- 3 years ago
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Mr_Costello
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lordsbassman
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Mr_Costello:
he looks like he puked a little...
- 3 years ago
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lordsbassman
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super_ally
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Mr_Costello:
When classes are cancelled this is our attempt at a snowman.
- 3 years ago
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super_ally
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abbym0308
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I bet that more people than ever are still working today despite being unable to travel to work. This is the most snow I've ever seen in London!
- 3 years ago
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abbym0308
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AnnieMole
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I remember in 2003 when we had the last heavy snow and were told, next time transport would be prepared for it. Guess what? It isn't!
- 3 years ago
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AnnieMole
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Margles
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God bless Britain and her inability to handle a few inches of snow... sorry I'm a teacher with a day off.
- 3 years ago
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Margles
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ksimpson
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Margles:
totally. Other countries measure their snow fall in feet not in inches... how rubbish are we? But yes, not complaining as I write this from my sofa...
- 3 years ago
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ksimpson
