Snow Surprise

Yes it's snowing across the UK.

This morning there were five different articles about snow on the BBC's "most read" list. Five!

Snow brings further travel misery
Is "working from home" a skive?
More snow as big freeze continues
In pictures: Let it snow
More snow disruption for England

Seriously, is that really necessary? Yes it's snowing. But it is December, traditionally the time for snow.

Christmas cards always depict snow, and those get sent around December (unless you're a fucking heathen and send them out early, in which case you deserve only death). Songs about this time of year always talk about snow. Find me a Christmas song that doesn't and I'll poke you in the eye with a stick. Twice. The weather reports have been warning us about snow for a couple of weeks. It is NOT shocking that it's now coming down.

So an article about it is maybe necessary, but that should be enough. Maybe two. Definitely not bloody FIVE of the things. What can they possibly say that the others don't cover?

Snow: it's cold and wet. Falls from the sky. Looks pretty when it's white, but crap when it turns to slush. Disrupts everything because people get scared and start freaking out like the complete morons they are. That last one is UK-specific, because people in Canada and Russia live like this for a lot of the year and they just get on with it. Hell, even in Scotland it takes a couple of feet before there's any major problems. That's why snowploughs were invented. Do they not have these south of the border? I know the government would just argue "saving money, not worth it, doesn't happen often enough to warrant it", yes it bloody does. They would pay for themselves almost immediately since you wouldn't have nearly the number of roads closed, cars wouldn't end up stuck so much, lorries would come off the road less, insurers wouldn't need to pay out as much.

When I'm king things will be different...