a bigger snow rant

[ewein2412]

Front page of the Perthshire Advertiser:

'DEATH-TRAP' PERTHSHIRE

"...Dr. Stewart Templeton, who lives in the South Street, phoned the PA after navigating the icy pavements.
"He said: '...Absolutely nothing has been done to the pavements...if [the Council were prepared to pay adequate overtime] there would be people willing to go out and shovel the snow.'
"One housebound PA reader, who declined to be named, added, '...the ice and snow-covered pavements [are] a death-trap. It's a disgrace.'
"He suggested, 'Back in the '50s, the town council got men on the dole to shovel snow off the pavements - it's an idea that should be considered again!'"

OR YOU COULD DO IT YOURSELVES, YOU *&&£^$^%* WHINERS!!!!!!

Or they could move to Germany, where as estara informs me, it is illegal NOT to do it yourself.

Or they could move to Kenya, where my husband assures me no one has ever had to shovel any snow.

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My husband also tells me Not to Read the PA before I've had any coffee.

Comments

[ewein2412]

is that the forecast for the next 9 months, too? (sometimes they say that here, when the prediction is for rain and 59 F)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I think that forecast would be "between eighty and 115 for the foreseeable, with occasional hot winds and fires."

[ewein2412]

there really ought to be a happy medium. I suppose it is in Pennsylvania.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

San Francisco, actually. They do get rain, and their summer is neither as fierce or as interminable as ours.

[ewein2412]

Southern England's not so bad either!

[estara.livejournal.com]

true, true - so says she from her two years experience in Dorset and Cambridgeshire, respectively.

[3rdragon]

I generally find Pennsylvania to be a nice happy medium. We did get two feet of snow here the other week, but that's not usual, and people do know how to shovel their walks.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My, that sounds like the forecast for one of Dante's outer circles!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I recognized a lot of L.A. in the Inferno.