"Pete B" wrote in message

Don't worry too much, we'll be able to cope then. If it's like
Scandinavia.
we'll have the investment in equipment necessary and the training on how
to
use it. Don't bother with Scandinavia, or Canada, just visit somewhere
like
East Kilbride (200m ASL in Scotland) and see how they handle it. They
must
be laughing up their sleeves at the disruption a couple of cm of snow has
caused in the South yet again. GW or not, it still snows properly up there
most, if not all years.

I think you have summed it up nicely. You should invest for what you are
likely to suffer from. I remember being in the Ross area when it absolutely
chucked it down. A terrific rain storm, all the roads were standing water.
Yet in Cumbria we would have had that for three or four hours before many of
the roads became the worse for it. We have serious rain so hopefully
engineer accordingly. East Kilbride have snow and gear up for it.
Jim Webster