Snow

[LittleKidder]

Hi
Make sure ONLY go out IF you REALLY need ro go out
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Jordan
Little Kidder

[LittleKidder]

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Jordan
Little kidder

[LittleKidder]

Update: Stagecoach bus is trying to run a service. Main routes only and not running on a time table. I would call travel line and ask on 0871 200 22 33. Royal Hospital staff due to go in you bus is running but that is the only offical one I can tell you.

[Fly]

Thanks for the updates and numbers Jordan 

[Big Dave]

Don't go out unless you really need to...? Get out there and clear the footpath (if you have one) outside your house!

[Old Cruser]

Hubby did ours and along the front as well as next door neighbours and  daughters.

My brother went to some bungalows in our village yesterday and cleared paths for them - bless him, he has a dicky hip as well.

Not so long ago we were being warned of the 'global warming'
Think we are moving into another 'ice age' 

[therealjr]

Be interested to hear eveyone else's take on this
From the OP
"Make sure ONLY go out IF you REALLY need to go out"

So yesterday morning I didn't really need to go out. But if I hadn't turned in to work I wouldn't have got paid. And those people who had managed to get to Sainsburys would have found the shelves half empty.
My OH works for the 111 call service. She didnt REALLY need to travel either yesterday or today. If she hadn't there would have been fewer people to answer the calls of course.
Where do you draw the line of 'Do you really NEED to travel'?

[Old Cruser]

I would imagine it meant if you hadn't got to go to work or gp/hospital appointment etc.
Someone like myself wouldn't normally 'need' to go out - only I did 'need' to because my daughters care agency couldn't get to her and as I live on the same street I have walked down the last two days.

[Slacker]

If myself and my colleagues didn't turn up for work no roads would be passable

[Big Dave]

All you need to do is be prepared and be sensible.

We went to the Plough at Hathersage for lunch today.  All the roads were passable with care though there was drifting snow beyond Owler Bar but three snow ploughs were dealing with that.

It's ridiculous the way people in this country panic at the first snowflake and use a few inches of snow as a reason not to go to work. The media don't help by telling every one to stay in doors, the message should be 'get to work if you possibly can' not 'don't go out unless it's necessary' - going to work is necessary!

[Fly]

We didn't work Friday what with the schools closing and all our contracts off, plus we didn't fancy sitting in town in snow all day.
Apparently our mate was in town from 9am. He went home after his 3rd pickup at 3pm 

We'll be up at 6am tomorrow ready to face another day 

[Slacker]

Schools now close if there's a chance it MIGHT snow

Back in t'sixties there were a few snowy winters and the schools never shut. in the days of the Eleven Plus we had kids from all over the place, they didn't go to the nearest school. In extreme weather they occasionally let us go about 2 o'clock

[Big Dave]

There's an over the top  'risk averse' attitude in the public sector, brought on by this insidious compensation culture in which people refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and look for blame everywhere else. I heard a headmaster say on TV he was closing his school in case one of the children slipped on their way across the playground! Children have to learn that they might fall if they run on snow and ice - how are they supposed to learn if they're not allowed to experience the risks?

Thankfully I heard on the news a few minutes ago of plans to curb 'no win, no fee' claims - not before time!

[Old Cruser]

My junior school's plaground was on a slope - there were always at least 3 lanes of 'slides' during icy weather. If we fell - so what! It was fun!
It's time they put a kerb on the no win no fee malarkey it just encourages people to make claims.

[Big Dave]

It's time they put a kerb on the no win no fee malarkey it just encourages people to make claims.

OC - that's precisely what I heard on the TV news this morning was going to happen!