On Sunday, 10 February 2013 14:17:59 UTC, willie eckerslike wrote:
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:17:03 PM UTC, Adam Lea wrote:

On 10/02/13 09:06, willie eckerslike wrote:











In the "old days" when folks could see a cm of snow on the ground and carry on regardless,







Yawn.







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection



And just how many schools actually closed when an inch or two of snow lay on the ground in the 1960s?



Ditto rail routes, when trains had steam engines on the front, rather than today's lightweight dog-boxes which seem to break down in any inclement weather?

My school only closed in that winter of 62/63 when we run out of coke for the heating -that was a couple of days I believe.