On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:12:20 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Well, one of the things that always amused me was seeing cities shut
>> down down south because of a snow amount like what you got.  The thing
>> is, all- weather tires on cars isn't common in the southern US AFAIK,
>> and the south tends not to have snow removal equipment.  Couple that
>> with people who have never actually driven on anything worse than a
>> wet, oily road and put them on a skating rink....it can get more
>> dangerous than driving with experienced winter-weather drivers in Utah
>> on black ice.
>> 
>> How much snow removal equipment is there in Milton Keynes?
> 
> Well, since yesterday every single main road in the city has been
> gritted, and even some of the minor estate roads. It's still snowing
> right now, and yet there's no snow laying on any of the road surfaces
> yet except *right* outside my front door. That can't be too bad, eh?

Certainly not for you. :-)

> (Milton Keynes is arranged in a grid of roads, so saying that the main
> roads are gritted means that you can basically get between any two
> points in the city easily.)

That's interesting, because Salt Lake City is arranged on a grid as well.

> Many of the roads outside the city aren't so clear, but so far today I
> haven't seen anything that I'd remotely consider "dangerous". Now, if
> this lot melts and then freezes again over night, *then* we'll have a
> problem...

Yes, that would be a problem.  I wonder if it had done that last night?

Jim

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