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