Currently snowing quite hard in Des Moines according to my mate - roads
are 'interesting' after 3 days of freezing rain too..

http://www.theiowachannel.com/weathe...70/detail.html

The UK would just grind to a total halt. Iowa ranges from -30C to +40C
in an average year, yet the roads aren't falling apart, the trains don't
stop running... Wonder where the UK lost the plot? Seriously, I seem
to recall that in '79 & 81 the UK seemed to at least have a grip on what
to do in winter, can't recall much detail from '86 / '87 which was quite
bad in Lincolnshire IIRC, but the decline in our ability to cope began
around then.

G.
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Graham J. Platt
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