40cm? We get an inch or two and the place goes to shit.
This is rather pertinent.
I managed to travel a few hundred yards before ditching the plan to go into work this morning.
I'd say we had an inch of snow if that. The police were redirecting traffic from the Main Street because several cars had gone through the cross and smashed right into a barrier.
The hill on the way back up to mine (not THAT steep) was like an ice rink because of people caning it in 1st or 2nd gear and then spinning out. I just parked up at some flats and walked home but there was half a dozen cars abandoned on the road (this is like 7:30am.
A van blocking the road that's trying to get turned and away but can't because some doofus is behind it and refusing to reverse or try and turn his car. I even pointed out to them that going down the hill was fine, all he had to do was turn or even have us help spin him round and he'd be able to get on his way or head home and the van could get moving. Nope.
Old Stewart my drinking buddy decided it would be a grand idea to go to Morrisons. He managed to get all the way home (up a really steep hill) before spinning out at the top of our street. By time I got out to help him someone else had got him going.
Popped out to Aldi and a Royal Mail van was slowly heading towards the garages across from me. I stopped and told him not to go down there as it's always like an ice rink and he'll not get back up. I come back up from the shops and guess who's stuck spinning around outside the garages.
Had I managed to get out of the scheme I'd have got stuck about a mile or two away on the main road where there was apparently loads of crashes and stuck cars plus the police weren't letting anyone down the hill again so I'd probably have had to abandon my car there and walk him.
We're shit at snow. Really shit.
