Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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4 December 2010
15:4983218#1
As Barry Williams mentioned on another thread, no post because of the snow, and for a few days at that, why? The roads up Whitfield have been reduced to slush overnight with the heavy rain, a bus went round at 08.30 this morning, and that was it till 2 this afternoon, why? Tesco sent an automated phone call to us this morning, all online grocery orders cancelled, why? If this is what happens over just one day of heavy snowfall, maybe we`d better start wishing for global warming. Have I missed anything out? It really doesn`t take much to bring this land to a standstill does it?
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Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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4 December 2010
15:5983221#2
So how come I've managed to get some 40 tonnes of international mail from Amsterdam into London this week then? And probably as much going back the other way? Admitedly it was a bit of a struggle and the delivery schedule went out the window, but me and my collegues still got the job done despite snow, ice and Operation Stack!
Phil West
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 December 2010
16:0683224#3
seems to be just a lack of organisation nationally and locally, as we have seen the truckers get through and the port is totally unaffected.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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4 December 2010
16:0983226#4
From what I recall from work experience all down the years, whenever snow was falling, there was always the `can`t get to work in that` brigade, can`t do this, can`t do that, yet north of the border and across the channel they were all doing it. It`s just another one of those english diseases, as Phil correctly points out above.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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4 December 2010
17:0783230#5
i read a report in the paper this morning about online shopping,tescos and sainsburys were mentiond.it went on to say that people where fed up about them getting there orders wrong,ie.lemon cleaner instead of fresh lemons etc.most people have cancelld there acounts and going back the old fashiond way,trolly pushing.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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4 December 2010
18:1683232#6
We don`t do it regular Brian, but sometimes we have no choice and it is quite pleasant sitting back in the chair ordering at the touch of a button, as well as convenient. I`m off the road at the moment, and although we have family and freinds at the end of the phone with cars, I`ve never been one one for putting on other`s and try and make the effort to be self sufficient. Besides, I want to see what it`s like to be lazy.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
4 December 2010
18:2083234#7
Never have a problem with on-line groceries as long as you tick the "no substitutes" box
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
6 December 2010
12:0783424#8
I think on-line shopping is a blessing! I have been shopping this way for several years, and thank God for it, because I do not know what I would do without it.
It is very bad that some services were cancelled. We are never ready in this country, and I really think it is time that public service vehicles, delivery vehicles, etc, were provided with winter tyres. When I lived in Switzerland, it was extremely rare for any services to stop, whatever the weather. Part of the problem here that many of the secondary roads are not gritted, and become extremely hazardous. Last Wednesday, during my outpatient transport we had to go around River, and also up to roads off Melbourne Avenue. None of the side roads were gritted, and since Dover is very hilly, you can imagine the fun our poor driver had.
I suppose that even if the DDC provided bins on every street corner, the salt would probably be pinched before winter even got here.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
6 December 2010
19:0883469#9
I'm sure the salt would disappear quite quickly Diana.
A new thought has come out recently about getting around these snowy roads; should we expect every road to be cleared by the responsible body/County Council, or should it be up to us to make sure our cars can travel safely on them - as they do in most other European countries ?
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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6 December 2010
20:2583498#10
i know that in some, if not all scandinavian countries it is the law for tyres to be studded and/or snow chains applied.
a lot of countries do no gritting whatsoever, finland for one.
multicoloured ken posted on the subject of ungritted roads in eastern europe last winter from his perspective as trucker.