Officially Pissed off with the snow...

[Isimmo]

Right, had a good old whinge with Briggers yesterday, and it's cranked up a notch today...

Since the snow came, living on a hill has been 'fun', and being a minor road, the attention to 'detail' by Worthing Borough Clowncil has been 'nil'... Only to be expected really... So, no refuge collection since before Christmas for us... Better still, the school is on the other side of the valley, and that too was closed for 3 days last week as the council picked it's collective trunk... When it re-opened on Monday, everyone was asked to walk as the entrance had been cleared by parents and staff, but the hill leading to the school was like the North face of the Iger and the pavements were almost impossible to stand up on... Better still, the path leading from High Salvington (the top of the hill) was also untreated and claimed at least a dozen victims in the 5 minutes I stood there laughing at the misfortune. Yesterday afternoon, we went into the town, and behold, grit-a-plenty, but no shoppers, the place was dead.

This morning, we have another dusting of snow, 2cm at most...

School Closed again...

The main roads, last week, were all okay away from the council depot, but the bit down through the valley 'the third side of the triangle', was lethal.

The Residents are also pissing me off...

They've all resolutely refused to park on their driveways, so the margin for error on the untreated road is limited, then they've cleared their drives... (I know, don't ask why, they're not parking on the bloody things)... Then lumped the snow up on the pavements. So walking to School involves climbing over 2 foot high piles of compacted snow.

THEN... They started clearing parts of the road, the curb parts, where they've been parking... So the centre is rutted sheet ice and snow, whilst the parked car bit is clear, so now the cars can 'slide off the top of the ruts' down into their parked car....

The old folk march about for their Daily Mail newspaper, determined to 'go get' that broken hip... We've had two ambulances up our Crescent already...

Is it me?

Yours sincerely

Major Fiasco

[Emjay]

personally I think old people are ace and can't wait til I become one

What has got my goat is we don't have wheelie bins for rubbish, only for recyclable stuff (bottles, cardboard etc). So we have to put our rubbish out every Thursday morning in bin bags.

Well last Thursday it was evident with 4 inches of snow on the ground the rubbish collection wasn't going to work but the assholes on our street still decide to leave their bags of waste out. A week later said bags are still outside certain houses having been got at by foxes, stray dogs and the odd cat, leaving rubbish strewn over the pavement...tossers

[john johnson]

PMSL......we have said old farts across from us and they have drives that slope down into their garages, they have been out everyday shoveling away with the obligatory wheelspinning to follow ( one has a bmw which is fun to watch )
This is reapeated evryday after a dusting of snow.
Today we have sheet ice so it may get more interesting as they may run out with the table salt

[Isimmo]

Here you go, this is our road at 9am this morning...



Lovely...

[john johnson]

thats not nice...we have total sheet ice now
we did have a gritter in the cul de sac yesterday which was a major shock

[vag80]

i'm pissed of with the snow the bins haven't been emptyed of 2 weeks now roads not gritted i'm ment to be on a course for the rest of the week the roads here are like sheets of ice under the snow and the roads are grined lock it had taken me over 2 hours to do 3 miles so i gave up and went home

[Coxy]

Kinda feel a bit left out on the whinging side of things here!
Our close albeit slushy, iced and now covered in snow again, is on a flat, so no major problems, we don't live near the seaside so that means we don't have many coffin dodgers living nearby. I've got several bags of grit in the garage of my own so our path is always clear. We've got a grit bin at the end of our close and one at the entrance to the estate although I've not looked in to see if they are full or not, and unlike days of old, I've not seen anyone use them either.

Only downside is that we didn't have any post from last Tuesday till yesterday at work which is a right royal PITA. Funny how we can all get to work ok, but the postman couldn't be arsed. Being on the perimeter of the RAF base, we've been a tad lucky as we are probably one of the only single track lanes in the UK which has seen a gritter at least 3 times in the past 7 days!

[Emjay]

Have to say our postmen have delivered everyday despite the weather mind you all he's bought are bills and solicitors fees

[ZermattGT]

I'm a little confused here. In New England we spend most of the winter with 1-20 inches of snow and ice on the roads. We still get out, we have trash pick up, and we take a little extra car with the elderly. Accidents happen. The only thing we hold back is kids going to school during a snowstorm. Next day they're off to class, sometimes just a 2 hour delay.

Granted, we have lots of sand, salt and plow trucks. Snow shovels are leaning outside every door. England gets it's share of icing even if there is not alot of snow right?
Sanding/grit for the roads must be available somewhat.

[missfire]

once obama gets his free healthcare for all thing going ...you wont be able to afford enough grit either..!!

joke...