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		Great Britain could get up to 4" of snow this weekend. EVERYBODY KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP (guardian.co.uk)		72
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Sgygus

2012-02-03 08:00:49 PM

... and when climate change interrupts the gulf stream .... four feet of snow for you, Great Britain!

/enjoy

NowhereMon

2012-02-03 08:16:51 PM

A Minnesotan's advice to the folks across the pond:

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namegoeshere

2012-02-03 08:37:35 PM

Send it here, plz. All this bare grass is making me twitchy.

veedeevadeevoodee

2012-02-03 08:44:29 PM

EVERYBODY ~~KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP~~ GET BLOODY WELL DRUNK

toughmag.com

/ FTFY

FriarReb98

2012-02-03 08:44:50 PM

Sgygus: ... and when climate change interrupts the gulf stream .... four feet of snow for you, Great Britain!

/enjoy

Four inches. Slight difference there....

\love that 90% of this winter's snow (14" overall) came two weeks ago...and was gone from our lawn in four or five days

Marcus Aurelius

2012-02-03 08:59:02 PM

And save matches.

GAT_00

2012-02-03 09:19:26 PM

Sgygus: ... and when climate change interrupts the gulf stream .... four feet of snow for you, Great Britain!

/enjoy

Which probably won't actually happen. But yeah, people don't realize London is at nearly the same latitude as Calgary. Also, there's a continental versus maritime thing there.

Ed Finnerty

2012-02-03 09:20:38 PM

Bazinga In My Pants

2012-02-03 11:44:15 PM

On the bright side, 4 inches on the upper lip is the least subby's mom is expected to get this weekend.

/Cheers!

farkingismybusiness

2012-02-03 11:44:39 PM

Snowballs for everyone!

mekki

2012-02-03 11:46:21 PM

Meanwhile, it has been in the 60's in North Carolina for the past week or so. Not that I am complaining. It has been really nice. The only problem is I wanted to buy a fan so that I could open the windows and circulate the air except all the stores are still in Winter mode. That is, no one has fans only space heaters. (CSB, I know.)

Hey, if anyone in the UK wants to trade my heater for one of your fans, I'll be happy to make a swap.

DeathLemur

2012-02-03 11:46:43 PM

The church is far, but the roads are icy.

The pub is farther, but I will walk carefully.

brantgoose

2012-02-04 12:02:17 AM

Well, the trains won't be running for five days, and several of those that try will be derailed or get stuck. This happens when there are wet leaves on the tracks, so four inches of snow will be as devastating as it would be in Vancouver, BC.

I've walked to work through snow 15-20 inches deep, with only somebody else's footprints to walk in, but even in Toronto they panic at four inches.

Once my brother was running down the drive way and I saw him completely disappear right in front of my eyes--there was an "invisible" snow drift across the end of the drive and he vanished in it. Cool. That's as close as I'll ever come to seeing somebody vanish into thin air.

Our dog used to be so funny in the snow. You'd see his head pop up and then he'd disappear, and his head would pop up a little further on. He had to hop through the snow because he was so short.

We used to dig snow tunnels and caves. There's a word for those in the Athabaskan Inuit language: Quinzee. Hunters build them as temporary shelters rather than something more substantial like a hunting igloo, which takes hours and a lot of snow of the right quality. Good alternative to lying down and dying if you are caught out in a blizzard. The air inside an igloo or tunnel is just above freezing, and if you aren't wet, your body heat and clothes should prevent hypothermia.

We could have died a thousand deaths when we were children. Snow tunnels was just one of many options.

Fista-Phobia

2012-02-04 12:02:29 AM

should we receive a mega-deposit of snow

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J. Frank Parnell

2012-02-04 12:02:32 AM

Sgygus: and when climate change interrupts the gulf stream .... four feet of snow for you, Great Britain!

I think you mean the gulf oil spill, and it already happened. Probably responsible for these colder temps over these ever since.

It's all just sitting down there, like molasses. You sink that much oil and it will interfere with currents.

Plant Rights Activist

2012-02-04 12:03:28 AM

hang on in quiet desperation

Happy Hours

2012-02-04 12:05:12 AM

It snowed about 4" of really wet snow here....it won't be warm enough to melt for days. I'm not pleased.

Farking Canuck

2012-02-04 12:06:02 AM

brantgoose: even in Toronto they panic at four inches

LOL ... one clown of a mayor is not a city panicking.

belhade

2012-02-04 12:20:28 AM

FriarReb98: Sgygus: ... and when climate change interrupts the gulf stream .... four feet of snow for you, Great Britain!

/enjoy

Four inches. Slight difference there....

\love that 90% of this winter's snow (14" overall) came two weeks ago...and was gone from our lawn in four or five days

The majority of our snow fell three *months* ago. It's been sixty most of the time since then. This is one farked up winter.

Daraymann

2012-02-04 12:24:08 AM

You silly Brits. Bragging about four inches!

whatshisname

2012-02-04 12:24:17 AM

Farking Canuck: LOL ... one clown of a mayor is not a city panicking.

But we are currently panicking over one clown of a mayor...

Omahawg

2012-02-04 12:42:39 AM

I'm sitting here picking my nose waiting to see if we'll get 6 inches or a foot.

yes, that's what she said too

yes, i boinked her twice and then smacked her. was that wrong?

firefly212

2012-02-04 12:45:03 AM

Weather service is underreporting here in Denver, it's about hip deep at my house.

ktybear

2012-02-04 01:12:34 AM

brantgoose: We used to dig snow tunnels and caves. There's a word for those in the Athabaskan Inuit language: Quinzee. Hunters build them as temporary shelters rather than something more substantial like a hunting igloo, which takes hours and a lot of snow of the right quality. Good alternative to lying down and dying if you are caught out in a blizzard. The air inside an igloo or tunnel is just above freezing, and if you aren't wet, your body heat and clothes should prevent hypothermia.

This is the sort of trivia and knowledge I collect. It may come in handy one day.

Gyrfalcon

2012-02-04 01:28:24 AM

Daraymann: You silly Brits. Bragging about four inches!

When it gets to 8", call me.

ertznay

2012-02-04 01:31:11 AM

Keep Calm and Carry On

HaywoodJablonski

2012-02-04 01:37:57 AM

Farking up my golf plans.

Sabyen91

2012-02-04 01:46:24 AM

I know it is all relative and this would shut down a deep south city but really, 4 inches deserves a state of emergency?

Qaiwolf

2012-02-04 02:43:17 AM

firefly212: Weather service is underreporting here in Denver, it's about hip deep at my house.

Indeed. As someone who has has had to dig his car out to leave work this morning, dig out my garage so I could get my car in, dig a path AGAIN from my garage so I could get out, and drive back to work in this storm tonight... I say fark you.

/you being the panic mongers
//if it's not four inches of snow, it four inches of something else you're panicking about!

Huck And Molly Ziegler

2012-02-04 02:50:19 AM

From the article, I am confused. I have heard eastern and central Europe have been colder and snowier than normal, but does this apply to U.K. as well? Or is 4 inches predicted a one-off thing? Or does it depend on which region of the British Isles we're talking about??

Kittypie070

2012-02-04 04:23:05 AM

Yeah you pussy Brits.

And my friend the gunslinger is shovelling a foot of that white sh*t off his car every morning.

mydirtyglove.com

Suck it.

BitwiseShift

2012-02-04 05:28:58 AM

Sometimes it's not just the snow, but the weight of snow on roofs, powerlines, and bridges that makes for a very bad and cold week for anyone needing shelter or warmth.

Places that don't expect snow emergencies generally don't build for them.

ecossais

2012-02-04 06:16:24 AM

The problem with 4 inches of snow in the UK is that they are not used to it at all. Two inches of snow caused Heathrow airport to close.

So snow is always a surprise there, and since hardly anyone uses winter tyres they are all suddenly unable to go anywhere and all the roads are quickly blocked not necessarily by snow but by stuck cars.

Snow isn't a big deal, 4 inches anyway, if you are prepared.

Ramsay

2012-02-04 06:29:02 AM

Hehehe cocaine
Thanks Kittypie:) your post made my morning.

SevenizGud

2012-02-04 06:31:59 AM

Sgygus: when climate change

www.woodfortrees.org

WHEN climate change?

Monkey MKIII

2012-02-04 06:32:24 AM

Sgygus: four feet of snow for you

I bet you make the same 'mistake' with your penis.

/predicted we'd get our snow at the end of January
//so close...

bazzanoid

2012-02-04 06:38:57 AM

Stupid drivers are my worst problem here in the UK when it snows - no amount of snow will stop me getting about its the idiots that don't know how to drive in the stuff that cause the issue, blocking road junctions, stamping on the gas and brakes in that usual mentality of Power = Grip....

That said, i live on a hill and my tyres are near enough bald so when we have an arbitrarily different amount of snow than predicted later today, driving will be interesting....

detroitdoesntsuckthatbad

2012-02-04 06:59:46 AM

So Heathrow is closed for a month?

/seriously BAA - buy some farking plows like every other airport in the northern hemisphere

Pert

2012-02-04 07:08:18 AM

I am sitting in my office in my garden about 30 miles north of London absolutely freezing my nuts off. Can barely type my hands are so cold.....

Going to go inside and cover myself in Deep Heat and get up against the radiator. Keep myself alive until twelve.

2012-02-04 07:29:08 AM

Had over 30" at this time last year... so far 1.5" this year and mid 50's temps most of the time. Very mild, very odd.

Lord Summerisle

2012-02-04 07:36:20 AM

Mark Bossley, its chief vet, said it was wise to keep pets indoors. Salt could easily get on their paws or fur and be swallowed when they groomed themselves. Cats also seemed to like the taste of antifreeze, but it is highly toxic to them.

Couldn't help but laugh at that.

Arctic Phoenix

2012-02-04 08:28:06 AM

Spokane, Washington representing here. We've gotten hardly anything this winter in town as far as snow goes... we got about 8-12 inches a couple weeks ago, and we had a dusting or two back in November-December, but that's.. pretty much been it. It's been a bone-dry winter otherwise.

I kind of miss the snow we had a few years ago when the entire city shut down. It was unreal, we literally had foot after foot of snow, and that was JUST in one snowfall. We had about 3-4 of those heavy snowfalls (1-3 feet each dumping) within a three week period. It was great!

capitulating fromage masticating simian

2012-02-04 08:49:43 AM

I'm in Scotland, and I can't help laughing at all the national news going apeshiat about the snow; it's only England that's affected you self important wankers, you didn't give a shiat when it was just Scotland that got a major case of snowfall.

*OK, some

dittybopper

2012-02-04 08:50:29 AM

brantgoose: We could have died a thousand deaths when we were children. Snow tunnels was just one of many options.

I had one collapse on me once. We'd been using it for days, and lighting/heating it with home-made lard lamps made out of sheet brass, burning the drippings from frying up ground beef and using strips of old cotton rags for a wick. That actually kept the inside quite toasty feeling without significantly melting the inside walls. Anyway, after a few days my father, my brother, and I were sitting in it when all of a sudden it collapsed on us. Luckily it wasn't so deep that we were completely buried. AIR, I had been sitting down, and when it fell in the snow was up to my shoulders.

We laughed about it.

Next time we get a really good snowfall, with enough snow to do that, I'm going to build one with the littlebopper. He's old enough now to start learning some 'survival skills'. Knowing how to do that sort of stuff can save you in an emergency.

/Stuff you can burn in a 'lard lamp': Vegetable oil, all animal fats including butter and actual lard, margarine (the stuff that's mostly vegetable oil). Stuff you can use as a wick: Any natural fabric (though linen and wool tend to stink), paper, cardboard, or natural plant fibers. You can improvise the lamp itself out of aluminum foil, or you can do what dad did and make them out of sheetmetal. You can also use a seashell, or carve one out of soapstone (or other soft stone).

capitulating fromage masticating simian

2012-02-04 08:51:02 AM

*OK some in the highlands, but it's not as bad, they're more used to it, and not that many people live there anyway.

dittybopper

2012-02-04 09:00:01 AM

Forgot to mention two things: Ceramics also make great lamps, and we rebuilt the shelter by putting pine boughs over the top and covering them up with snow.

weapon13

2012-02-04 09:07:47 AM

bazzanoid: Stupid drivers are my worst problem here in the UK when it snows - no amount of snow will stop me getting about its the idiots that don't know how to drive in the stuff that cause the issue, blocking road junctions, stamping on the gas and brakes in that usual mentality of Power = Grip....

That said, i live on a hill and my tyres are near enough bald so when we have an arbitrarily different amount of snow than predicted later today, driving will be interesting....

I've seen idiots unable to control their car so they just leave it in the middle of the road or wherever it was that they stalled and they just walk away. Farking idiots, if you don't know how to drive in snow or icy conditions, Don't drive.

I drove across Europe for Christmas 2 years ago with summer tyres, got stuck once in a snow bank after messing about and sliding my car on purpose (hitting the snow bank was not on purpose). Got out using my snow chains.

dennysgod

2012-02-04 09:41:01 AM

FYI, the UP of Michigan still has snow, 2+ feet on the ground still, especially in the northern parts. So come on up, spend your money.

Pert

2012-02-04 09:41:11 AM

bazzanoid: Stupid drivers are my worst problem here in the UK when it snows - no amount of snow will stop me getting about its the idiots that don't know how to drive in the stuff that cause the issue, blocking road junctions, stamping on the gas and brakes in that usual mentality of Power = Grip....

And anyone in a RWD, e.g. BMWs and Audis.

Last time it snowed properly it took my wife 6 hours to drive 10 miles home from work in her little Peugeot. Why? Because there is a tiny, insignificant incline up to a roundabout and nobody in a BMW or Audi could make it up the slope. That didn't stop them trying 20 or 30 times, delaying everyone, until finally other drivers would give up and help push them up the slope. My wife drove straight up no problem without help.

Later that Christmas I got my old FWD Saab up a steep, steep farm track in the Derbyshire Peak District and only got stuck when I hit 6 inches of fresh snow right at the top.

Arseholes the lot of them.

gojirast

2012-02-04 10:10:13 AM

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