Snow
This last week has seen the first “major” snowfalls in the UK this winter. Predictably, the various organizations responsible for keeping the country moving have failed, yet again. Some roads have been gritted and salted, but many have not. In general, trains worked OK, except for Eurostar who had “the wrong sort of snow”. Airports also failed to cope with the weather.
Pre-Christmas snow
Many of you outside the UK probably assume that we had a couple of feet of snow without warning. But no. A couple of inches of well forecast snow caused complete chaos in many areas.
We see interviews on television. Apparently, everyone is to blame for the various problems, except for the organizations themselves.
I saw an interview with one official who said that the problem with the gritting in his area was that there was too much traffic on the roads to lay grit and salt, but in the next sentence, he said that there was not enough traffic on the roads to make the salt work properly. I worked out what he meant but he was trying to put the wrong message across and not succeeding at that.
Have we learnt any lessons? Probably not. It will probably happen all over again in less than two months time.
On that “happy” note, let me wish you all best wishes for Christmas.
