Extreme ice here in Yorkshire…..

[SantaClaus]

If the early 1960s are anything to go by, until the sheep die in the fields, until cows on remote farms starve to death, until farmers start shooting themselves in desparation, until the army start using helicopters (assuming they have any in the UK) to do food drop to remote communities, until people living on boats freeze to death in the night or die of starvation if not near settlements.

Until the sea freezes around the coastline.

Until so many people go skating on rivers that stalls open on the ice to sell them food and drink.

Until all the ornamental ponds are frozen completely solid, including the coi carp and goldfish therein.

Until the ground is frozen solid and all burials have to cease. The crematoria, hospitals, chapels of rest, and everywhere else possible gets piled up with dead bodies.

What we have had is nothing yet. This is still just a normal winter.

Human memories are short, and feeble.

Thanks Richard. I feel a whole lot better now

[RichardCranium]

Thanks Richard. I feel a whole lot better now

Happy to oblige.

[sunnysan]

Priorities

How much longer can this madness last?

Look here, while you are whinging about the country being unable to cope with extreme weather , I am taking proactive steps to address the issue by delivering broadband to the whole country(Or promising it which is just as good really).

So shut it

GB

[RichardCranium]

Look here, while you are whinging about the country being unable to cope with extreme weather , I am taking proactive steps to address the issue by delivering broadband to the whole country(Or promising it which is just as good really).

We're all paying the 50p 'phone tax too, you know.

[Andy2]

Look here, while you are whinging about the country being unable to cope with extreme weather , I am taking proactive steps to address the issue by delivering broadband to the whole country(Or promising it which is just as good really).

So shut it

GB

not only broadband, I am giving away free laptops
I think money grows on trees
Gordon Brown

[AtW]

not only broadband, I am giving away free laptops
I think money grows on trees
Gordon Brown

In the City

[TykeMerc]

It's not like there's anything unusual about having snow and ice here in Yorkshire or the rest of the UK for that matter.
We've not had much snow for the last 30 years or so, but we always get some and it was only a decade or so ago that Leeds was gridlocked for a couple of days due to snow and awful drivers.
In the usual British manner of today we treat any minor inconvenience as a major disaster.

It's snowy and fairly cold, get over it.