I see the gritters are getting a hard time for last night.. The press are
reporting tonight that they, even with all the warnings, did not do a good
job.

I don't see the press reporting on how bad a job they did in reporting the
possible mayhem the weather could cause. They were happy to ignore the
weather, or at least it felt that way, and give maximum air time to the
Hutton enquiry.

I don't know how may of you on here would agree with me, but no matter how
much salt the gritters had put down on the roads, they would have never
prevented the problems that happened yesterday.

The weather played a "Trump Card" when it comes to disruption in our area. A
good snow shower in the morning leading to clear skies and rising
temperatures to help melt the snow for a few hours, thus helping to remove
salt off the roads.. Then a short burst of rain, this washed off any salt
that was left and within moments of the rain stopping, the temperature
dropped and the snow came down in every direction. This was then topped off
by a rapid freeze..

IMHO, I blame selfish drivers for blocking roads. Some felt that they had
enough skills to drive in such poor conditions but just ended up blocking up
roads. In Burton one road was closed off all because a lorry wanted to get
up a hill, any normal person would have looked at it and said, "no chance"
not with 3" of ice on the road, but no, he gave it a go and in effect closed
the road when he jack knifed.

Okay so the gritters are not perfect, they do screw up, but yesterday was
out of their control.

Does anyone else agree?

Steve


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