Hows your weather?--mine ?...#*&$#*%&^!!!!!!

[rickoshea52]

My boss lives in Oakville Ontario and had 18 inches of snow last night and the night before. I called him at 1100 local and he was still shovelling snow to get out of his drive! The temperature was also -13c max and I thought it was could here in Warsaw.

I'll be in Ljubljana on Wednesday and the weather there doesn't look like much fun.

[Guest]

I worked in Sioux St. Marie (yeah, I know it's in Canada, not the US) years ago, in winter. To get the car out every morning I had to dig through the wall the pavement snow plough had thrown up against the front of the house; the wall the pavement snow plough had thrown up along the road side of the pavement; and the wall the street snow plough had thrown up from the road along the gutter. For 2 1/2 months! I'll have our rain any day.

[Ian M]

Forgot to say. Love the bear on the porch as I do the snow blade on the 4x4. Could use one of those some times...

Ian M

[Guest]

Man, it takes us 10 years to get that much snow.

Ray

[Guest]

I was rudely awoken at 5,30am with a snow sweeper chugging up and down the path by our bedroom window. Not once, not twice, THREE times!!

Fearing the worse, I got up to dig the car out so SWMBO could drive to work.

I was rather annoyed upon looking out the widow to see all of maybe 1cm of snow.....Not amused!

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Yes, just sometimes the public sector is imperfect. I have just renewed my driving license in the Internet. First, I had to register with the Government Gateway (a security identifying thing for future contacts which I will try to avoid). Pages and pages, Address, Telno, Memorable Date; Memorable Place, Memorable Name, Passport No., Nat. Insurance No., etc. etc. etc. Then on to the Passport renewal stage. Lots of questions, as expected (diseases), lack of a leg etc. At the last-but-one page I got:

"If you present license includes a right to drive a minibus, agricultural tractor etc., you cannot renew that here, only your right to drive a car.

Renew your right to drive a car

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Abandon

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This was an "either or"! Absolutely classic!!!

[Guest]

When I came to Jersey from Surrey in 1962 I had a licence to drive a car and motor cycle.

When I went to obtain a Jersey Licence they decided not to mess about. They gave me a licence which entitles me to drive everything except an including an HGV provide it was not articulated. As I had never envisaged driving an artic it did not concern me. What did is that I could now be let loose on a sit on motorised lawn mower and a lorry of any size except artic.

The laugh is I could go back to the UK and swap into a UK licence with the same capabilities.

Laurie

[Ian M]

Seeing as this snowy thread has become a driver licence thread.... Why dont they make people take a driving test before they lest them loose in the snow, There are a horrific amount of people that either have no idea so crawl along at 20 or have no respect for other peoples safety and barrel along at 90. All on a road that is limited to 50.

We had more today but only a couple of centimetre.

Ian M

[Ian M]

Seeing as this snowy thread has become a driver licence thread.... Why dont they make people take a driving test before they lest them loose in the snow, There are a horrific amount of people that either have no idea so crawl along at 20 or have no respect for other peoples safety and barrel along at 90. All on a road that is limited to 50.

We had more today but only a couple of centimetre.

Ian M

[Snowman]

Wow, that is some snow!! I have had only a light dusting here, but that will not deter the transport system from imploding!!

Nice to see that you are friendly with the visitors!

[flyjoe180]

There are a horrific amount of people that either have no idea so crawl along at 20 or have no respect for other peoples safety and barrel along at 90. All on a road that is limited to 50.

Sounds pretty standard regardless of the weather! There's always someone doing well under the limit when you need to get somewhere. The worst ones are those who travel at 70 in a 100 zone then still maintain that speed in the 50 zone and race ahead. Does my head in.

[grumpa]

Forgot to say. Love the bear on the porch as I do the snow blade on the 4x4. Could use one of those some times...
Ian M

The blade or the bear?

[grumpa]

Wow, that is some snow!! I have had only a light dusting here, but that will not deter the transport system from imploding!!
Nice to see that you are friendly with the visitors!

VISITORS ????? o_O

[grumpa]

Sounds pretty standard regardless of the weather! There's always someone doing well under the limit when you need to get somewhere. The worst ones are those who travel at 70 in a 100 zone then still maintain that speed in the 50 zone and race ahead. Does my head in.

WHOA!! forgot you guys do KLM per hr ops: