3 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

I have not seen more than two days of Snow for years. 12 years driving a school bus and only a handful of snow days.😄

With air holding more moisture we might see much more snow. I dont remember the winter of 62/ 63 as i was only 1.5 years old. Saw lots of snow in Canada in mid 60s even though our latitude same as south of France ie in Toronto area. Recall we had lots of snow on Dartmoor winter of 1980 think it was. We had temperature of -20c in 2010 with freak cold spell here in Worcester. Prefer it to 38c and local town like Stourbridge and Pershore catching 🔥.

Going to be interesting. Perhaps feet of snow in the winters and 40c plus in the summers. The number of heat related deaths will be huge. Couple of thousand in UK in 2003, 70k in Europe. Suspect we will see half as much again than this for this year and more again in years to come.

Edited 20 minutes ago20 min by lol-lol

Yeah, the 62/63 winter was no fun over here either; diesel froze in the tanks, roads were impassable near me with snow impacted on the A12 up the straight 3-mile hill with vehicles abandoned all over the place, and my parents' house had ice on the insides of the windows, and having a bath was impossible due to the bath and the plug hole, along with the downpipe to the outside drain being a solid block of ice.

Winter of 1962–1963 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

24 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

Yeah, the 62/63 winter was no fun over here either; diesel froze in the tanks, roads were impassable near me with snow impacted on the A12 up the straight 3-mile hill with vehicles abandoned all over the place, and my parents' house had ice on the insides of the windows, and having a bath was impossible due to the bath and the plug hole, along with the downpipe to the outside drain being a solid block of ice.

Winter of 1962–1963 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

You tell kids today and they don't believe you.

(Said in a Yorkshire Monty Python accent).

Going on for 3 months was amazing.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by lol-lol

19 minutes ago, lol-lol said:

You tell kids today and they don't believe you.

(Said in a Yorkshire Monty Python accent).

Going on for 3 months was amazing.

Yeap, but it happened. I remember it was living hell; thank god for the hot water bottles that we all had to take with us to bed each night. I remember how we had to relocate the beds away from the windows as they froze up every night, where our breath formed condensation on the glass and almost immediately turned to ice.

5 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

Seeing wealthy owners boast about free fuel while rapid public charging remains extortionate just creates resentment and a stubborn determination to stick with ICE cars.

The above is something demonstrated on here fairly regularly with people boasting about free or cheap charging and using it as a stick to evangelise about EVs without any recognition of how the vast majority of the UK live life, or how they are in a completely different situation.

I don't think it causes much resentment in here but it certainly annoys and frustrates due to the constant repetition and blindness to the lives and situations of others.

I think the expression is probably 'tone deaf'...

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2 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

my parents' house had ice on the insides of the windows

Places I lived in in the late 80s had ice on the inside o the windows in winter... Let alone in 1962/63...!!!