Last night, the Mayor took the unprecedented step of closing all schools for the following day.

Most roads in-city were cleared except for large areas of Queens and Staten Island. The suburbs were hit harder and most people experienced some form of delay today, mainly because the 6 to 10 inches that fell on the roads were not yet plowed on many side streets and in the more remote areas.

Down South, it was chaos as usual. I saw a North Carolina State Trooper being interviewed on the tv news. They were talking about the effects of snow on traffic hazards and fatalities and the Trooper readily agreed in the beginning. Then he said: "Yeah... the slick road conditions are a worry but more importantly, its these drivers who insist on going 75mph on the highways regardless of the snow that's the real problem."

Quite a hoot. It is always the same. Especially for people who drive S.U.V.'s. They think that "4wd" or Awd" means that nothing can stop them. Bunch of idiotic dinks, really.

This current winter storm front has killed about 14 people but all of them are idiots in car accidents and victims of those idiots.

POGO is just SO right.

weve gotten about an inch in the space of 15 mins, i was on my computer playing diablo 2, and there wasnt much snow about, and when i looked up, it was pure white

yup here to ff i was playing diablo (not two)
when look up and lo and behold, the street is white

it took me 15mins and two kettles of warm water to unfreeze me locks and clear me windscreen when i finished work at 6pm today. it then took me an hour to go 1 and a 1/2 miles home, using every back road I know of to avoid the mile long tailbacks at each major road junction. The only gritter I saw was stopped and not running. How cr*p is that?

I'm hoping for snow tonight, just so I don't have to go in to school. About half the school didn't show up anyway, thanks to trouble with the buses...unfortunately the school is only a couple of streets away from me...


Aceaz---Like a U-boat, unnoticed, surfacing only for a second, then vanishing without a trace....

indy, what is pogo?

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Well, I've already had a long snow ball fight with my brother, I can safely say, that kid couldn't hit a barn door from 10 feet. I would've been embarassed if it weren't for the fact I was having so much fun getting him with snowbal headshots

well, by the weekend, we'll be basking in temperatures of around 12 degrees

Edited by - freighter fighter on 1/29/2004 2:01:00 AM

It's official: The world has gone crazy. 4 pages on snow in UK proofs everything.

Edit: Damn spelling.

- I'm not crazy, I'm a car. And if you don't believe me, you can get out and walk home. -

theres now alot of ice in my carpark. the caretakers were throwing grit all yesterday afternoon instead of fixing the leak in the bathroom

you want crazy, listen to this, my friend lisa who lives in london was telling me there was a thunderstorm while it was snowing.

@ff

Oh. Sorry. I guess I am dating myself a bit. Pogo, apart from being a sprung stick that kids used to bounce up and down with, was a political cartoon that went out of print something like 10+ years ago. Maybe more.

Anyway, Pogo's tag line was: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

It was used relatively frequently when the strip pertained to some particularly poignant and therefore "retarded" piece of legislation being contemplated in Congress.

well it took me 4 and a half hours to get home last night. Weirdest drive I've ever done. Set off at 5.30 - the snow had just started and I wanted to get ahead of it - by 8.30 I'd gone 6 miles. In that six miles I saw 4 transits turn over, 2 lorries jackknife, and 10+ cars slide into each other. It was absolute carnage. Bizarre.

I also realised that half of the UK population don't know what to do when your car starts to skid.

just let it slide dont you?