Why Can't We Cope With The Weather?

[anotheoldgit]

How is is that in this day and age we get a little wintry weather and it brings almost everything to a stand still?

I am old enough to remember the winter of 1947, and for those who cannot remember that far back, here is what it was like.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=snow+in+1947&biw=1024&;bih=611&tbm=isch&tbo=u&;source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&;ved=0ahUKEwirutG8_b7RAhVIJcAKHWrEBhEQsAQITw

[chelle7272]

Jo that was due to a risk of flooding with the high tides, next one due tonight

[naomi24]

aog, //at least in those days they did try to carry on, I doubt if they would even leave the garage these days. //

You doubt, but you don't know. Perhaps that comes as a result of being retired and able to stay home whenever you want to. You'd be very surprised at the efforts some people make to 'carry on'.

[237SJ]

Of course people carry on. I know two people who came off a flight late last night (working) and had to drive up to Yorkshire and Derbyshire regardless of what kind of weather they were going to encounter on the way. I myself have driven to the South West straight off a flight (LHR) and encountered terrible weather on Exmoor. I even span off the road one time but you do it because you have to.

[HHBBNN]

It has all melted round here, apart from first thing this morning we have not had much I remember going to school as a child with the snow piled up at the side of the roads higher than me. Nowadays a little bit of snow and everything comes to a standstill.

[mushroom25]

// Of course people carry on.//

they do. but yesterday there was the merest dusting of snow, yet GTR (who run the thameslink train service) brightly announced that they were making the service "safer and more comfortable" by halving the number of trains to certain stations. :-0

[anneasquith]

Scotland has wintry weather every year, when it affects the south east its like the end of the world. Big softies :-)

[hereIam]

I'm old enough (ahem) to remember when snow reached the windows and fell off the roofs like great avalanches and lasted for days and days, doesn't happen like that now, at least not in my neck of the woods !

[Unsureme]

Well said,Andy Hughes,I remember 1947 and also 1976,not forgetting 2010.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// You doubt, but you don't know. Perhaps that comes as a result of being retired and able to stay home whenever you want to. You'd be very surprised at the efforts some people make to 'carry on'. ///

Don't take things so personally, I was talking about the buses leaving their garages.

And you are wrong retired persons are not able to stay home whenever they want to, they still have to attend certain appointments, do their shopping etc etc.

Also some younger retirees have to carry out their duties ferrying their grand children back and forward to school.