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UK Freeze, stupid media
Ok so we have some snow in the UK, ok there is a little more than we normally get, but hey we have all been so used to mild winters for the last decade. I can remember back to when we had snow on the ground over the winter, that it actually used to drift on the back roads around where I live and form these amazing snow tunnels over the ditches at the sides of the road. I remember less winging about it as well and less press.
The BBC news site as usual as coined a media frenzy name for this current snow “UK FREEZE”, making the whole thing sound as if the Ice Ages have returned to our queens shores. Motorways have been closed, airports are shut, the schools have closed (hey one flake of snow and the schools shut so nothing new there) and trains are delayed or cancelled. I work in London by the way I commute from Bedford to Farringdon every day and I have managed to get into work today, as have thousands of other people. So here is some news for you BBC, trains are running yes a little disrupted but they are running, people who actually make the effort to get to work have got into work.
Sure there are parts of the UK that have had a lot of snow and I pity the old and frail who live in the remote villages at these times as it is hard for them to get mobile, I appreciate some road are dangerous and in some places people should just stay home instead of risking putting their car in a ditch. However there is not need for all the press, there is no need for headlines and “UK FREEZE” quotes. Get over it, deal with it. Moving on….
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about 6 months ago - No comments
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about 6 months ago
Aye, I understand what you’re saying but the snow is causing a lot of problems where I live. However, I am only speaking for myself and my family. Mum is completely dependant on the care of others and because we’re in a small village, the careers cannot reach us. Most of them live in small villages as well. So Mum is having to put up with two people (my Dad and I) who are not trained and cannot deal with the ‘icky’ parts very well.
Although, for the first time since I have known it to exist, the local school has closed. Probably due to 90% of the students come from the nearest town and surrounding villages and with an already rubbish bus service let alone what it’s like in the snow, hardly anyone would have turned up.
The media always hype things up. Look at Swine Flu. The way they went on about it you would have thought it was the new plague.
Some places were hit really hard and might not have been as exaggerated as some places reported.
It is nice though, despite all the hassle, to be able to have snow during Winter and to see all the kids building snowmen! Sorry, ‘snowpeople’.