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Keith Dancey · February 5th 04, 09:58 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

In article , Jonathan Stott writes:
Keith Dancey wrote:

The forecast was acted upon and my experience is that roads were salted
and gritted *ad nauseum* pior to the blizzard. No amount of salt or grit
could possibly have prevented the poor driving conditions which resulted
during and immediately after the blizzard. The worst situations occurred
because of the sheer weight of traffic (Scandinavia doesn't have to deal
with one tenth of our peak traffic flows.)

While that's true in the rural areas of Scandinavia,

NO. It is true of their largest cities: nowhere near the peak traffic flows
of our largest cities.

.. around cities such
as Oslo and Stockholm traffic is just as heavy as in comparably sized
cities here.

Had they faced a blizzard conditions in the middle of their rush hour
causing trees to block roads and power failures knocking out traffic
lights, they would have ground to a halt, also.

Cheers,

keith

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