Thread: English Snow

It has just snowed in England and, as predicted, the country is considering the idea of grinding to a halt with little more than two inches on the ground.

For those of you who are also enjoying our white smattering, I hope that you're enjoying the newscaster's amazement and apparent glee. For those who aren't, perhaps you'd care to assess why it is that we can't cope.

I don't understand exactly why the English can't adapt to a sprinkling in comparison to other countries, but all the same, I hope that my bus service isn't running tomorrow. I could use a day off...


Oh, and here is a picture of me with our snowman. Yes, that's an umbrella. It was drizzly. (His name is Neville.)

Oh, here in America there are places that think a nuclear holocaust is happening if it snows an inch. Although, to be fair, if Hawaii got an inch of snow I'd be somewhat worried.

LOL, that's what my kids do, scrape all the snow off the ground to get a decent snow man! I like your pic too!

6" in North Finchley, it makes everthing so much quieter. Traffic moving freely, all the shops open, newspapers delivered.

Sounds like metro Atlanta about a year ago. We got two inches of snow, the entirety of Georgia shut down for a week. A week or so later, some flurries are seen in the air, not even sticking, and everyone lost their minds as if there was a terrorist attack in their backyards. The entire time people are freaking out, I'm wearing this expression:


But without all the makeup.

In northern Scotland there are villages with nothing on either side by a single-track road for seventy miles, who can be snowed in (as in, unable to open the front door) for one or two months of the year. In England they are 'snowed in' for two days and suddenly the country descends into anarchy. Schools shut, roads closed, phoning into work because the roads are too icy to drive...

I prefer England's way of doing things

I think you Brits. have stolen our snow.

My parents emailed me this morning to say that they had received about 6” of snow – in north Cambs. It does amuse me when England gets a few inches of snow and the place grinds to a halt. As a transplanted Brit. I do remember a few serious snowfalls over the years; 1991 was the last really bad one I recall. What is really odd is that here is Canada there is no snow and it isn’t cold either. We are used to very very snowy winters - 7-10’ a winter is not unusual and neither are
-20C (or colder) temps. This winter it hovers around zero, some days it gets up to 8C and the grass is green. Yes, that is a mighty unusual sight for a place that doesn’t usually see grass from November to March.

When winter does bother to show up here, we do seem very good at dealing with it. I guess it’s all the years of experience and the heavy equipment and the road salt (that works to -18C) and everything we do here just works and keeps things running smoothly. I suppose too the English snow is very different to the snow we get here which is light and fluffy and contains virtually no moisture so you don’t end up with a soggy wet mess after a day or two.

Please send our snow back. I am missing it.

Felix, I like your snowman (but why aren't you smiling?).

Originally Posted by Gardening Girl

It does amuse me when England gets a few inches of snow and the place grinds to a halt.

Yeah, but Pommie snow is tough snow. Seriously, you don't want to meet Pommie snow down a dark alleyway, it wouldn't be pretty.

Originally Posted by Rustgold

Yeah, but Pommie snow is tough snow. Seriously, you don't want to meet Pommie snow down a dark alleyway, it wouldn't be pretty.

You're absolutely right of course. Dunno what I was thinking.

I think we got 3 inches in Kent. Either way, the roads were cleared up and the shops were open. Everyone was travelling with no problem and people were light-heartedly enjoying the snow. Either the panic is in more populated areas of the country, or - as I suspect - the media is simply playing on a few individuals and generalising it to the public. Someone brought 'The People' into the pub yesterday, and it simply had the headline 'PANIC!' with photographs of looting. Was anyone actively looting? No, not really. For all I knew, they could have been old pictures of the riots.

I dunno, you Pommy wusses, our snowfields are as extensive and as celebrated as those in Europe, and when the snow extends into our nearby cities, people just get on with life.

You can’t play cricket either.

Originally Posted by The Backward OX

I dunno, you Pommy wusses, our snowfields are as extensive and as celebrated as those in Europe, and when the snow extends into our nearby cities, people just get on with life.

When was the last time it snowed in any major Queensland town? (& we're not talking about soggy mush)

Originally Posted by The Backward OX

I dunno, you Pommy wusses, our snowfields are as extensive and as celebrated as those in Europe, and when the snow extends into our nearby cities, people just get on with life.

You can’t play cricket either.

Must be why we hold the Ashes............ Again.

Originally Posted by Rustgold

When was the last time it snowed in any major Queensland town? (& we're not talking about soggy mush)

Who mentioned the Deep North? Not I.

Originally Posted by The Backward OX

You can’t play cricket either.

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

Must be why we hold the Ashes............ Again.

Ah, I just realised...English and Australian here.