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Topic : Snow Joke |
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| Listener |
Friday we woke to snow and every day sinse it has snowed to some degree, does anyone remember it like this in years past or remember untreated roads and pavements full of ice for so long? Not complaining, i love snow, it closes winter and welcomes spring and the spring flowers.  |
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| gazzer |
79 was bad and I think 81. Never this late in the season. I am just old enough to remember Silsden Urban District Council and as a kid we used to walk round as the local council workers cleared footpaths with mini snow ploughs. The snow plough wagon used to come round with blokes on the back hand shovelling grit onto the road. Then of course Bradmet took over, the mini snow ploughs were the first things asset stripped from Silsden, and wagons with grit spreaders took over. Priorities changed and gritting is centered around City Hall in Bradford, working outwards. It used to be bus routes and milk tanker routes.Now the tanker routes look to have been dropped. |
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| GAMEKEEPER |
There used to be a small stock pile of grit, gravel etc round the back of the old council offices, ready for whenever it was needed. The old buildings are now flats. |
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| hermione fraggle |
I was saying to my husband just this morning, I don't remember such a sustained period of below average temperatures. Following on from the wet summer and autumn it is getting rather trying to say the least. I don't mind the snow, I don't mind the wind but I was hoping for some sunny weather soon, I am not overly picky, a cold but sunny week or two would be lovely right about now. |
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| old_miner |
While Silsden Library does not have the greatest of collections it does have a book or two on weather and how it has affected our history. Very simply: The rain makes good grass. Good grass means good sheep. Good sheep meant good wool. Wool was precious commodity - so England became rich. However - we still had to survive the weather and one way was to explore for better weather. With the exception of Northern Canada most of the empire was warmer than home. An empire required us to innovate, which we did. The modern world is mainly an English creation. We did such a good job that the rest of world expanded and naturally we have reverted to being a small island off the European continental mass. However - the weather is still awkward. This makes us awkward and argumentative. All good qualities when it comes to innovation. Climate change, or global warming, is really down to us and our gift to the world of the steam engine and all that followed. Naturally with our weather we our really looking at ways to resolve the problem. We probably will sort it one way or another. The future is always interesting. |
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| Alan Grop |
quoteThere used to be a small stock pile of grit, gravel etc round the back of the old council offices, ready for whenever it was needed. The old buildings are now flats. |
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