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Driving down I-5 in Oregon listening to Capital Gold from Leicester Sq on the radio. There's an app for that. It is snowing in London.

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I can't wait to see the pics of the snow in England.

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By the sounds of it London will be shut tomorrow.

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Fixed it for ya.

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Thanks, but that's no different from any other day.

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Just couldn't resist it.

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It always amazes me that the UK seems to shut down when it snows. Nobody seems to be able to cope with it. Even though it is forecast for days before they never seem to be prepared. When it snowed at the start of the year I actually got sent home from work as they didn't want people getting stuck in the snow. As it turned out the roads were clear and I got home quicker than I usually did. A few days later when it was a bit more snowy we all had to do our own 'risk assessments' and decide if we wanted to go into the office. I called and said the end of the alleyway my garage was in, was blocked so I couldn't get my car out. It was blocked but by someone's car as they skidded on a bit of ice and just left their car where they came to a stop. It was gone half an hour later. Apparently 5 people made it into the office that day. 5 out of 120! My sons school was shut at 10am so I would have been called home anyway to look after him.

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3G streaming over t'interweb, or just a snippit from a foreign correspondent on local radio?

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Got a e-xmas card from my uni, of the campus covered in snow...then asking for donations as they know it's the end of the US tax year and what we'd like to see the donation go towards.

Okay, the begging was in a separate letter.

It's 8F out and there's still no snow here though, all the previous stuff has melted.

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It amazes me how crap they are at dealing with it.

But it's like that in some parts of the US also. A few inches where they never get it (No pun intended) and they fall about flapping.

Yet they grit like mad all the time, for ice, I don't see what the big deal is!

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Local councils here is the UK have stocks of grit and salt to last a whole 6 days of frosty weather:ohmy:

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Nahh, they grit quite often in Leeds when there's a chance of ice, but as soon as it snows they can't cope.

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They can't cope here in Atlanta either. To be fair to both, it doesn't snow that often in the south of England or Georgia so it doesn't seem worth spending loads of money on snow clearing equipment like they do in other places.

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Same here....but a snow storm is forecast for tomorrow and it's heading north along the coast. Hope my rellies plane gets out of Newark tomorrow night...they fly from Manchester Sunday morning.

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In general the authorities in Britain are well prepared for any weather eventuality .. it's only when it is the wrong type of snow that they can't cope.

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I think it's any amount of snow. I remember last year, when it turned out a lot of councils had got rid of their snow ploughs, cos they didn't use them very often...

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England is small enough to have a few fleets that could be shifted around overnight if needs be.

Any way, people have their own plows on their cars here :huh:

It's snowing now as well.

90% chance of snow on the ground at Christmas :)

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Radio app on my iPhone

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It's the end of civilisation as we know it....again...the same thing happened last year as well down there in Wimpy Limpwristyland.....LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND RECEIVES A DUMPING OF SNOW! :eek::eek::eek: ..all 20cms of the stuff in some parts.

Whenever more than three flakes of snow falls on London and the Soft South of England at the same time they call it a Blizzard.......and everything comes to a standstill and as ever, people act as if it had never, ever snowed before down there and a State of Emergency has to be declared.....schools automatically close down, buses and trains sieze up and the £ Sterling plummets on the foreign exchange markets.

Of course, Scotland never, ever gets dumped on by snow at any time, ever....does it.....if the London Sassenachcentric Media are any form of guideline on Britain's crappy weather....:thumbdown:

But at least some Aussies in Sussex seemed to be enjoying the snow.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...nd-the-UK.html

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oooh. Don't get me started on that! It snows in SE England and it makes Headline news. It snows in Scotland. Nothing. No coverage except local news. :sneaky: Of course London and the SE is the whole UK isn't it?

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They read a funny email on that theme on the BBC PM Programme last night ... "if a sparrow farts in Knightsbridge, the whole country has to hear about it..."

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Tis true also when it comes to reporting "newsworthy events" from the UK over here in the States. I give you those godawful reality tv stars as an example. (You know, those z-listers that no-one ever heard of or the embarrassingly "british" fugly buckets that possess a miniscule amount of "talent" that want their 5 mins of fame - namely that Boyle woman.)

The only "news" from Blighty that has reached these shores (these shores being the shores of Lake Michigan, Illinois) is Boyles' rise to fame and some twaddle about 2 morons cooking a rat whilst in a rainforest....

I ask ya. I have to physically go burrowing around in an avalanche of pointless web-crumbs to try and find any news of substance and meaning. :rolleyes:

...and to your point, any "Scottish" news...? Highly unlikely m'afraid.

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It's a rare occurance in Southern England, but commonplace in Scotland. That is what makes it newsworthy.

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Ooohhh.. What's the app??

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The one I use is ooTunes but you can use wunderradio as well. Think there maybe others.

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No of course not, only Essex.:thumbsup: