Winter in the UK

[larsen525]

Just found this on the BBC's website:

"Cardiff's Winter Wonderland attraction featuring an open-air ice rink and a ferris wheel has been closed because of snow up to 6 ins deep"

Words fail me...which doesn't happen very often.

- E.

[sonosun]

If Erik's town had 6 inches of snow it would grind to a halt. :yes:

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

"Damn you snow !!!"
Isn't that like a beach being closed because of lovely sunny weather ??

:lol:

[larsen525]

If Erik's town had 6 inches of snow it would grind to a halt. :yes:

Very true. But before I made the great trek south, I lived for 18 years in Michigan, where we get several feet of snow every winter and think nothing of it... and where the idea of an attraction calling itself "Winter Wonderland" closing because of a mere 6" of snow, would cause nothing but hilarity and derision.

- E.

[AYBSgirl]

Isn't that like a beach being closed because of lovely sunny weather ??

:lol:

Yes it is indeed. :lol: :lol:

[minki]

If Erik's town had 6 inches of snow it would grind to a halt. :yes:

Where I live (a tourist trap right in the middle of Hurricane Country) grinds to halt for a quarter-inch of snow. People panic so easily...so imagine what the blizzard of this past weekend did here. The whole area's pretty much been closed since Thursday before Christmas when the holiday weekend started but before the snow hit.

Except for the hospitals...they remained open, of course, so I had to drive to work in the blizzard...which was entertaining in itself. People around here don't know how to drive in the snow. Or the rain. Or the sun.

[sonosun]

Where I live (a tourist trap right in the middle of Hurricane Country) grinds to halt for a quarter-inch of snow. People panic so easily...so imagine what the blizzard of this past weekend did here. The whole area's pretty much been closed since Thursday before Christmas when the holiday weekend started but before the snow hit.

Except for the hospitals...they remained open, of course, so I had to drive to work in the blizzard...which was entertaining in itself. People around here don't know how to drive in the snow. Or the rain. Or the sun.

For many years all of the newcomers to Arizona came from some place that had nasty weather. Now most come from California.I assumed they could drive in a little bit of rain. No they all drove faster.
It rains so seldom here that all of the oil leaking from cars makes the roads very slick when it first rains untill the rain washes it away.:yes: