Comments on: Snow update

By: Chutters

Chutters — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:50:04 +0000

Wrong forum mate, this is a Guernsey forum. We rarely get snow over here unlike the UK mainland who seem to get it every year and suffer each time.

It would be a waste of time and money for Guernsey to prepare for something that only sticks on the ground for about 6 hours every 5 to 10 years.

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By: Ectopudding

Ectopudding — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:46:20 +0000

Correct, 4×4 are purely a status symbol (except maybe for people who drive on farms).

Also a lot of people don’t know how to change the radio dial!

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By: Ectopudding

Ectopudding — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:37:24 +0000

If you don’t like huge amounts of snow you can always move out of the upper parishes. St. Peter port was cleared by lunchtime and the north hardly got any.

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By: Ectopudding

Ectopudding — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:28:51 +0000

On the whole of my route to work I did not see one single car driver who could not drive in the snow. Every one of them drove very carefully and competently.

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By: Pepe Le Pew

Pepe Le Pew — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:06:35 +0000

You’ll have to excuse me, Me – at the time of writing I was grieving the slow demise of the snowman I had built with my daughter so may not have been thinking straight.

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By: Me

Me — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:10:33 +0000

Due to the lack of children in school (as many didn’t go) normal lessons cannot run. All the kids that are not there would miss out.

Chickenpox tends to be for ONE class of children at a certain age, not a whole school.

Your last comment reads:
“One day off school to play in the snow is no more disruptive to taking a day off with a bad cold….or should we close schools next time chicken pox does the rounds?”
It sounds a tad contradictory to me. Why open the schools if it’s no more disruptive than having a cold? The fact that those who get to school by bus couldn’t get in displays how few would have been there.

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By: guernseyal

guernseyal — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:33:59 +0000

I think the troll Pete referred to was PB Falla and not you Ed. All PBF does is cut and paste the same words (“another Guernsey shambles”) onto any topic that takes his fancy. Probably just attention seeking.

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By: Charlie G

Charlie G — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:50:14 +0000

….thought i heard thunder,from the direction of
Europe and Scandinavia,surprise surprise it was laughter,and the joke ? once again the pansy Brits falling about over a dusting of snow.My work takes me to northern europe and
Scandinavia several weeks in winter time,what
a pleasure it is to see those areas just getting on with it,schools open,public transport running,people driving to their work,airports open for business in total blizzard conditions,and guess what? i do not fly to those areas for my work weeks,i drive there,as far as Norway,yep i got winter tyres
on my van,and yep they were supplied and fitted by a small local tyre specialist near the bridge,at very little cost.Oh dear what a
mamby pamby society Britain has become,sad.

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By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:27:50 +0000

So nobody in Guernsey can drive on snow? Everyone panicking? What nonsense, and by the way, have you ever thought, most drivers in Guernsey have probably not lived here for long, so probably don’t know which roads are likely to be difficult.
As far as I can tell, most schools did exactly what you suggest in your last paragraph.

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By: Questor

Questor — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:10:56 +0000

So what happened to St. Andrew’s School? Was that the only part of Guernsey completely impassable as far as teachers were concerned? Seems a bit odd if Blanchelande opened and that’s only around the corner.

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By: Toolbag

Toolbag — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:24:05 +0000

You sound like Mr Logic from Viz..

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:47:29 +0000

OMG what is the problem here, a flurry of snow so the Island comes to a standstill, is there no other excuse for pulling a “sickie” Try looking at the mainland, where people were genuinely stuck, doing their best to get to work, gritters etc., working to full capacity. This is an Island, does no one remember the art of walking. Sorry, obviously not, due to the amount of vehicles, OH, just remembered, you all have 4 x 4′s so where is the problem, you can drive in all weather terrain. Why oh Why do you have your 4 x 4′s. Pose machine perhaps. Island FM have been slated for no reason, they only go on information provided, so why not get your bad weather info elsewhere. God Help Guernsey if we really had bad weather. Please remind me, how long did the snow last, 4 hours !!!! I think I need to stock up my cupboards now in case I am snowed in, so must go.

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By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:27:49 +0000

This is the issue with the Internet; it’s extremely difficult to convey the manner in which one delivers a message and thus if, from the persepective of a fellow contributor, a question containing an ostensibly emotional or aggressive tone is made, it is dismissed as the work as an Internet incendiary.
That’s what makes the validity of your claim that I am a troll at its best questionable.

How do you know that I wasn’t merely asking a genuine question ?

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By: Pepe Le Pew

Pepe Le Pew — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:15:26 +0000

In my defence I only wasted about half an hour before I and the progeny had to disperse; I to my place of employ, my progeny to the preliminary learning facility – there to receive a far more enhanced educational experience than building snowmen! :-)

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By: Pepe Le Pew

Pepe Le Pew — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:07:17 +0000

I love the lack of insight people have when it comes to a joke. Note for reference, the :-) gives it away. As for the schools being open, your view is the ridiculous one I’m afraid. Notwithstanding a bit of parental discretion so they bloney well should be with the amount of snow we got yesterday. If parents decided it wasn’t safe they were at liberty to keep the children at home. One day off school to play in the snow is no more disruptive to taking a day off with a bad cold….or should we close schools next time chicken pox does the rounds?

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