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Its been interesting being in a place which deals with this regularly. Currently in Montreal and we've just had around 25cm over a day and a half with about another 10-15 forecast tonight. Not a massive amount by Canadian standards, but still enough to potentially mess things up. And everyone just gets on with stuff. yep, traffic has been slower and probably lighter than usual but its kept running. been a fair few 'fender-benders' but only a couple of serious accidents and one of those was a boy falling out of the cab of his dads tractor so a bit of a freak.There's been an army of workers out all night and day clearing the roads and pavements (1000 apparently. A load of the city workers are also trained in this work and as soon as needed they stop their usual work and get on this). Buses and trains are running late but no-one is abandoning cars or getting off the bus after 7 hours to walk the rest of the way. And I've just come from a hockey match where 20000 people managed to get there on time and away safely with as far as I could see, no real mis-haps.

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What bus did you get?

I left work at 2pm, went for a train (none for at least two hours) decided to go for a bus, got on an Express bus to Hamilton at 3.15pm, normally should take about 30mins, we were still stuck and not moving at 10pm, I eventually got fed up standing on the bus and got off it on the motorway, didn't really have a clue where I was going so just walked in the general direction of Hamilton, got lost, ended up wandering through Strathclyde Park (and I must say walking through a theme park in the dark is scary as f**k) eventually found the main road and walked through the snow till I got home about 11pm.

All in all it wasn't too bad. I was f**ked when I got home but at least I got home, the ammount of abandoned cars and people having to sleep in cars was unbelieveable. The roads out here are still f**ked and I really can't see how they'll be cleared anytime soon.

I'll be heading out in the morning for a train but there's no way I'll be trying to get a bus again.

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What bus did you get?

I left work at 2pm, went for a train (none for at least two hours) decided to go for a bus, got on an Express bus to Hamilton at 3.15pm, normally should take about 30mins, we were still stuck and not moving at 10pm, I eventually got fed up standing on the bus and got off it on the motorway, didn't really have a clue where I was going so just walked in the general direction of Hamilton, got lost, ended up wandering through Strathclyde Park (and I must say walking through a theme park in the dark is scary as f**k) eventually found the main road and walked through the snow till I got home about 11pm.

All in all it wasn't too bad. I was f**ked when I got home but at least I got home, the ammount of abandoned cars and people having to sleep in cars was unbelieveable. The roads out here are still f**ked and I really can't see how they'll be cleared anytime soon.

I'll be heading out in the morning for a train but there's no way I'll be trying to get a bus again.

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What bus did you get?

I left work at 2pm, went for a train (none for at least two hours) decided to go for a bus, got on an Express bus to Hamilton at 3.15pm, normally should take about 30mins, we were still stuck and not moving at 10pm, I eventually got fed up standing on the bus and got off it on the motorway, didn't really have a clue where I was going so just walked in the general direction of Hamilton, got lost, ended up wandering through Strathclyde Park (and I must say walking through a theme park in the dark is scary as f**k) eventually found the main road and walked through the snow till I got home about 11pm.

All in all it wasn't too bad. I was f**ked when I got home but at least I got home, the ammount of abandoned cars and people having to sleep in cars was unbelieveable. The roads out here are still f**ked and I really can't see how they'll be cleared anytime soon.

I'll be heading out in the morning for a train but there's no way I'll be trying to get a bus again.

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yep. i was raging when he told me. if i had a seat i'd have given it up after a while to swap with someone who was standing up. people can be so f**king selfish.

it wouldn't bother me sitting on the floor, but i think the bus was packed so there probably wasn't enough space.

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yep. i was raging when he told me. if i had a seat i'd have given it up after a while to swap with someone who was standing up. people can be so f**king selfish.

it wouldn't bother me sitting on the floor, but i think the bus was packed so there probably wasn't enough space.

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Panic over, Scotland is getting a tropical heatwave tomorrow, with an increase in temperature of about 15 degrees C.

OK, it won't really be a tropical heatwave, but it'll feel like one after the cold. :D

Meanwhile, ignore all the people that say "other countries cope, why can't we?". The simple fact is that the snow they get in other places is very different.

I was near Boston around ten years ago when they had around 5 feet of snow fall in the morning - the day I was due to fly home. I had to drive around 50 miles to the airport, and the freeway had around 4 inches of compacted snow before you got the tarmac. I thought it would be terrible to drive on, but it wasn't much different to driving on tarmac, it was barely slippy.

I came to the conclusion that how damp the atmosphere is makes a huge difference to how slippy the snow is. There's few places that have as damp an atmosphere as the UK, as anyone who has ever flown into the UK from a hot dry place might have noticed.

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Walking through an abandoned theme park? Scooby Doo always survived.:P

Unless your talking about walking down the motorway, I was perfectly safe. There were a quite a few doing the same so we just stayed on the embankment. Not to easy though in about a foot of snow.

I just felt so sorry walking past people who were stuck in their freezing cars.

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Walking through an abandoned theme park? Scooby Doo always survived.:P

Unless your talking about walking down the motorway, I was perfectly safe. There were a quite a few doing the same so we just stayed on the embankment. Not to easy though in about a foot of snow.

I just felt so sorry walking past people who were stuck in their freezing cars.

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