On Feb 5, 1:48*am, wrote:
On Monday, February 4, 2013 10:46:02 PM UTC, Adam Lea wrote:
On 04/02/13 19:58, Len Wood wrote:

On Feb 4, 6:13 pm, willie

wrote:

On Monday, February 4, 2013 1:45:17 PM UTC, Lawrence13 wrote:

God I've just been to Tesco's for some OXO cubes and they are completely out of stock !!!!

LOL,

Just seen a nice piece on 4th Feb 1963 on our local Spotlight BBC

news.

Impressive pics of cars buried with just aerials showing and steam

locos buried in drifts on Dartmoor.

Would this happen today? No chance.

Now that would presumably a red warning?

It was inconvenient then but everyone survived.

Bet many of the pensioners didn't.

According to the ONS, the excess winter mortality for the UK '62/63 was 89,600. That's nearly ninety thousand extra dead people caused by excessive cold. Mild, wet, 'tropical muck' winters? 'Bring It On!' is what I say.- Hide quoted text -

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I apoligise for my flippancy.
89,600 dead is definitely more than inconvenient..
There would have been far fewer dead if we had had the present UKMO
warning system in place don't you think Lawrence?
A red warning for snow would have halved the number dead.

You can reply to me Lawrence if you like.
;-)

Len