Media Hype - The Big Freeze Headlines
 

Dave Ludlow wrote:

Keeping all those ploughs available and
men on standby, for a population of 20 to 30,000, would soon have
today's bean counters waving their calculators in a frenzy.

But... it *can* be done and I suspect that in certain parts of
Scotland, it still is done.

It is
In fact when t'other half went up to the village this evening - they were
out -- came back to check if we had missed something
My time in Kent was punctuated with being sent home from school early
afternoon due to a flake of snow on the road. Only trouble was the only
buses to our village was the school one and sending us home early meant it
was cancelled. Nearest next one dropped us off 3 miles away across the
fields - no problem as a walk but did our school clothes no good at all. In
this day and age and thinking -- very unsafe.
We did get some decent snow at times -- I remember interesting drifts around
Xmas / New Year in 1977 -- we had a party and most folks had to kip over
night as from 8 pm to 11 pm there was about a foot of snow nad drifts we
fell into the following day on our way to the farm some of us worked were 4
plus foot.

Many of our services here are awful but even with the national company BEAR
doing the roads here now they are better than down south. How the councils
down south with SO many more people paying into the coffers can get it SO
wrong where up here its rare not to be able to drive reasonably safely with
only a population of 15.000 for 50 miles in each direction. It beggars
belief sometimes

--

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Jill Bowis

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Media Hype - The Big Freeze Headlines
 

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:00:24 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:22:57 +0000, JPG wrote:

Workers who fail to get into work can also lose pay if they don't
make it up by working extra hours,

"extra hours" so you loose half a day due to the weather and you have
to work a whole day to get the same pay? Doesn't sound very fair to
me. Loose half a day and work those hours at another time is more like
it, say an hours "overtime" for 4 days.

I meant "extra" in the sense of outside normal working hours.


... although I guess that would apply here in the private sector.

I would like to think it applied to any sector private or otherwise.
Don't do your required hours, don't get the pay.

Certain public sectors used to be more lax in this regard.

Martin

Media Hype - The Big Freeze Headlines
 

I've been sick recently, so am a bit slow to catch up with messages

A couple of thoughts i meant to put in at the time

It seems papers want to go for sensationalism these days rather than
accurate reporting

What annoyed me most about that article was the alarmist way it was
annouced that the snowstorm that effected New York last weekend was i
quote "heading our way..."

A casual glance at a few weather maps, reveals that not to be the case

Why print up headlines that reads "Big Freeze On The Way"
How many ice days have people seen recently. eg - real sub-zero
temperatures
I never even got a slight night time frost from this recent cold spell,
here in North Devon.
Ok granted, it's not the coldest location in the Uk

Why can't reporters consult real meteorologists before they print these
alarmist stories in major papers?

Is reading newspapers supposed to be educational? Because it just
frustrates me