"fred" wrote in message
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Agreed, bit we remain the laughing stock of Canada and Norway for our
"inability" to cope with such small amounts of snow and these countries
will have undergone similar patterns of change in the last couple of
decades.


but then again, I suspect that as a proportion of taxation we spend far
lesson coping with snow.

We probably don't get all of what we pay for, but I would hate to pay to
have us geared up to Norwegian levels of preparedness

Jim Webster