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Old January 16th 12, 01:17 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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On Jan 16, 2:11*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Jan 15, 8:18*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:

"Tony Kenyon" wrote :


I guess what really annoys me is that we are paying for all this
ludicrous crap at a time when living standards are dropping back to
the levels last seen when we had, occasionally, genuinely severe
winters.


This is where the warnings service goes unfortunately into Nanny State
mode. I file it alongside the "Surfaces may be slippery" on stations
(especially those on the southeastern network) after frost/rain.


Richard


* * In the pedestrian subway at Oxted it says "Caution - steps" - at
the bottom! *But nowhere do I see "Do not urinate on the third rail"
and I think this negligent omission should be rectified, like the
voltage.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


I think you'd find a lot of resistance to that suggestion unless you
cleared it with the Ohm Office.