UK'S SNOW CHAOS

[FactionHeir]

On the topic of gritting, that is the absolutely worst thing people always do with snow and it's so annoying as well. You finally get some nice snow and people start throwing salt at it so they can use their darned annoying tin cans with wheels.

I'm only annoyed they gritted the roads but not the sidewalk. Think of the poor frail elderly who will be tripping and falling.

[KukriKhan]

I'm only annoyed they gritted the roads but not the sidewalk. Think of the poor frail elderly who will be tripping and falling.

People in the neighborhoods don't have shovels? You know, those rectangular metal thingees attached to a stick? Ya slid 'em across the sidewalk and pitch the snow into the yard... where kids, released from school build snowmen?

[Devastatin Dave]

Global WARMING strikes again. Better buy more carbon credits and repent to Al Gore before its too late!!!

[Sigurd]

I'm only annoyed they gritted the roads but not the sidewalk. Think of the poor frail elderly who will be tripping and falling.

Over here where the snow is fairly common, we have this rule that the property owner of the house or building which the sidewalk passes, is responsible for clearing the sidewalk in front of the building.
We even have council workers with the full time job of taking pictures of neglected sidewalks and fining the property owners. The council is responsible for sidewalks which does not pass by private buildings.

[Andres]

Over here where the snow is fairly common, we have this rule that the property owner of the house or building which the sidewalk passes, is responsible for clearing the sidewalk in front of the building.
We even have council workers with the full time job of taking pictures of neglected sidewalks and fining the property owners. The council is responsible for sidewalks which does not pass by private buildings.

Idem dito here in Belgium.

[Fisherking]

We even have council workers with the full time job of taking pictures of neglected sidewalks and fining the property owners.

Heh, heh, heh!

Lets just think about that for a moment shall we!

Full time work…

Fine the property owners…

Full time work?

Wonder what it pays? A percentage of the fines? Nahw!!

Isn’t it bad enough that the continent gave us traffic cameras! Now they are all surveillance crazy in the government….

Not something I would like to see…

Doesn’t that sound like a Government Job though!!

Right now there are people in Georgia , Texas , and Louisiana applying for that position at $80,000 a year…

[Sigurd]

Heh, heh, heh!

Lets just think about that for a moment shall we!

Full time work…

Fine the property owners…

Full time work?

Wonder what it pays? A percentage of the fines? Nahw!!

Isn’t it bad enough that the continent gave us traffic cameras! Now they are all surveillance crazy in the government….

Not something I would like to see…

Doesn’t that sound like a Government Job though!!

Right now there are people in Georgia , Texas , and Louisiana applying for that position at $80,000 a year…

Heh... The property owners are mad considering the council not being able to clear their sidewalks.
They're all: Give the man a shovel not a camera (in a more colourful language).

[Tribesman]

bbc say almost 1/5th of people didn't turn up, I can't believe all those people could'nt of got to work if they wanted to

Maybe it had something to do with the schools closing so people were having to mind their kids .

Global WARMING strikes again.

Yes Dave good point , what used to be a regular occuarance hadn't happened for 20 years

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Maybe it had something to do with the schools closing so people were having to mind their kids .

Make the child shovel.

[InsaneApache]

Make the child shovel.

hear, hear....

[HoreTore]

Heh... The property owners are mad considering the council not being able to clear their sidewalks.
They're all: Give the man a shovel not a camera (in a more colourful language).

So..... they're mad because they're too lazy to shovel their own damned sidewalk?

I'm happy I live on this side of the mountain

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I live in a city, I have no shovel, how do I clear the pavement?

[Sigurd]

I live in a city, I have no shovel, how do I clear the pavement?

Table salt and a spoon might just do the trick, If you have the time.

Oh... BTW it snows outside. Right this very minute .

Proof:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Heh... The property owners are mad considering the council not being able to clear their sidewalks.
They're all: Give the man a shovel not a camera (in a more colourful language).

Our cities and towns have the same ordinance and problems. Some homeowners, especially the elderly & disabled cannot shovel. Renters won't shovel their section, you're lucky to get the rent. Property owned by the town isn't cleared on a consistent basis either. Then there's saps like me who shovel mine, my mother's, my elderly neighbor, and my two rentals only to have the street plow come along and fill 'em back in. I'm thinking about installing toll booths on my section of sidewalk to help recover maintenance costs *shovels & chiropractor visits*.

[Fisherking]

Our cities and towns have the same ordinance and problems. Some homeowners, especially the elderly & disabled cannot shovel. Renters won't shovel their section, you're lucky to get the rent. Property owned by the town isn't cleared on a consistent basis either. Then there's saps like me who shovel mine, my mother's, my elderly neighbor, and my two rentals only to have the street plow come along and fill 'em back in. I'm thinking about installing toll booths on my section of sidewalk to help recover maintenance costs *shovels & chiropractor visits*.

Some times I think these guys lay in wait until someone shovels out just so they can make them do it again!

There is nothing quite like shoveling out to the street in deep snow, especially the wet heavy stuff, and when you go in to recover a little energy before going out, the plow comes and builds a five foot wall between you and the street.

It makes the several tons you moved before look small in comparison!

[Husar]

So the elderly can't shovel and can't walk outside either and that's why homeowners shovel the snow onto the street, then complain they cannot use their cars until the authorities have the streets ploughed ahen the homeowners have to shovel the sidewalks again....
The easiest solution would be a working subway net and having schoolkids run errands for the elderly, then you can just leave the white glory in peace, everybody will be happy and the schoolkids can help the economy with their earnings. Oh, and we'd do a lot to stop the global temperature of terror, doom and destruction.