On 27/08/2015 09:40, Dawlish wrote:
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 8:13:39 AM UTC+1, wrote:
"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 6:14:02 PM UTC+1,
wrote:
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 1:54:21 PM UTC+1, Graham Easterling
wrote:
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 11:26:48 AM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
On 25/08/2015 01:31, Tudor Hughes wrote:
This is from the Guardian:


http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...h-warning-cold

I'm with him on practically all points. Includes an example
from USW's favourite paper.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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Yes, most of us are, I would like to think.
Dave

I certainly do. The constant reference to rush hours is one of my pet
hates.

Why so?



This has been said many times before but it worth saying again. The BBC
forecasts aren't intended for weather enthusiasts but for those who might
want to allow extra time for their journey to work due to adverse
conditions or simply whether to take a brolly.

If you take the people who don't work, work from home, don't work in a large
settlement, have shift work, or self employed and can choose when they work,
are close to where they work etc. you are left with a smallish minority
involved in a metropolitan rush hour.

Cornwall is relatively densely populated county believe it or not - due to
it's old industrial base, but it's only Truro and Saltash that have anything
resembling a rush hour. If I take my mixed road in Penzance - I'm semi
retired, but I used to walk to work. My neighbour is self employed and works
at times to suit himself. Then comes a retired Scotsmen followed by a German
university lecturer who spends half the year in Penzance writing books.
Across the road are 2 Polish builders, Barry who's the landlord, and a chap
that works at a Adult Day Centre within easy walking distance. Also a couple
of fisherman. The rush hour is pretty irrelevant to all of them. If there's
a time in Cornwall when you want to avoid traffic chaos it's 10:00-11:00am
on a Saturday changeover day.

I'm not sure how many of my neighbours are weather enthusiasts, though on
the tip of Cornwall weather is something you tend to notice more than in say
London (where I spent 6 years) where the weather tends to blend into the
background umless it was really extreme. You would be surprised how many
people I know are USW lurkers, a couple have posted on the odd occasion.

There are people who work outside in all weather, farmers, fishermen,
builders etc. who are more in need of advice than people who are so brain
dead they have to be be told to turn on the windscreen wipers because there
might be spray if it rains.

The forecasts seem to be aimed at a narrow section of society, that many of
the presenters belong to.
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Very well said Graham. Agree entirely. Substitute Cornwall for a lot of
Devon too. Here the so called "rush hour" is a car at the road junction. Do
I need to be told to put my wipers on or that there will be spray on the
road after it has been raining, er no. Neither do a lot of people who live
and work in this county where I suspect we take notice of the weather more
than in Greater Suburbia.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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You are retired and live on Dartmoor. Hence your view of morning traffic and commuting. shakes head at the silliness of that views.

Where there is no rush hour, few live. Odd that, isn't it?


Will lives on Dartmoor because he can't face the real world. Will
experiencing the real world is in too much of a conflict with his
liberal peter pan fantasy world.