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Jonathan Stott · March 4th 05, 07:45 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

wrote:

I wonder how our European cousins in Germany and Holland coped - the
temperatures there really have been severe - and for a far longer
period than we have just seen.

I was talking to a PhD student in out department from Germany - over
here for a few months for some collaborative research. This kind of
weather is normal where he comes from (Bavaria) and he was utterly
shocked at the abject chaos that ensued from just a handful of inches of
snow and ice.

Reading the local rag today brought it home - a train stuck across level
crossing because the conductor rail had frozen up on Monday brought one
major street in Canterbury to a standstill for 90 minutes. Apparently a
"local supervisor had to come and chip the ice off the rail by hand".
Shocking.

All it takes is a bit of care and forward planning and everyone should
be fine - it's not as if the weather wasn't forecasted.

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Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/