a bit of snow darn saath

Mon, Feb 2, 2009

Southeast England was hit by some snow today. With up to 10cm falling, it was enough to paralyse the entire infrastructure it would seem. Quite why buses were driving around “not in service” while citing dangerous driving conditions as the reason for pulling the service, while people shivered at bus stops is anyone’s guess. Even the underground is off! Why would a subterranean transport network be affected by snow? I presume it’s due to the staff not being able to get to work as the buses are all driving around empty due to the “dangerous driving conditions”. Everything is off. Buses, trains, planes, schools and anything else that can be closed has been closed. No doubt there are people with clipboards rushing around risk assessing everything, from waiting at a bus stop while buses drive by empty so you freeze, to breathing. It’s a Health and Safety field day! They dream of days like this for decades.

No doubt there will be howls of ridicule as a little snow removes London from the map and the rest of the country gets to know about it, ad infinitum. Why can they cope in Alaska they howl? Well, Alaska prolly gets more snow in a day than the UK gets in a decade. Why bother planning, spending millions on infrastructure rescue plans and hiring lorry loads of H&S clipboard wielding morons to roam the streets hustling people into community halls to feed them lukewarm soup and announce status updates on the grim situation the H&S heros are manfully dealing with? Why give a hoot? It’ll be gone in a day.

Then it’ll be floods and H&S clipboards again…