scott wrote:

> Hehe I laughed when I saw the bbc website too, with it's "Heavy Snow" 
> shock-headline, only to be followed by photos like these:
> 
> http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45435000/jpg/_45435350_006818362-1.jpg 

PEOPLE OF BRITAN, THIS IS NOT WHAT HEAVY SNOW LOOKS LIKE! THIS IS A 
MINOR FLURRY. GET SOME PERSPECTIVE.

Why, when I was a lad (no! come back!), my old man used to drag me and 
my little sister up to the top of the hill, and then she'd sledge to the 
bottom again. And let me tell you, I can remember walking in snow *so 
deep* that I'd be up to my knees in it, and it all used to fall in the 
top of my boots! :-P

OK, my boots were probably only a foot high or so, but still... the snow 
used to lay for *weeks* on end, not an hour or two. Hell, as recently as 
1996 I remember us getting about 20 cm of snow, and nobody seemed that 
bothered about it.

> What on Earth would the headline be if there was actually, you know, 
> about 30cm of snow?

God only knows... :-D

I'm still unimpressed by the pictures of the "blizzard conditions" 
featuring a bunch of people trying to push a car out of the ankle-deep 
snow. I mean, why are cars spinning their wheels in 1.5 cm of snow?? 
There was more snow than that in my estate, and nobody appeared to have 
any trouble with it...

OOC, how much snow is there in the various other parts of the world 
where POVers are reading this??

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