Dreaming of a White Christmas ..... I would settle for a non slushy one

So I am a winter bunny - I like the cols, I like being able to wear wooly sweaters without being too hot, and I like the darker evenings.  I am also rather partial to a bit of snow.  It's now been a week since the snow started and I fear that I may be fed up with it. 

It is not actually the snow that I dislike so much as the fact that the streets have not been cleared or gritted and public transport does not run.  I understand that as a country we cannot invest large sums of money into building an infrastructure for the couple of weeks a year where we get snow, but we have to be able to support communities in being able to live their lives when we do get it. Roads have been blocked and people have spent their nights in cars.  People cannot get to work because they cannot get their cars out of the drive and their is no reliable public transport.

Peoples inability to be able to safely get to work in anything approaching a timely manner as soon as the weather turns bad then has an impact, not only on them (in terms of them loosing pay/leave or being stressed) but also on the organisations that they work for.  Theses conditions will result in businesses loosing money and in the current climate this will result in businesses having to close their doors.

The harsh truth is that one of the side effects of Global Warming is that summers get warmer and damper and the winters get colder.  When we loose the effects of the Gulf Stream winters like we are seeing just now will be more common place and we need to know that everything does not have to grind to a halt.  

In part we all have to take a role in ensuring we have done what we can to ensure that we are prepared as individuals and communities, but so do our local government organisations.

With this in mind I have decided to make sure that we have the supplies that we need to ensure that we can function (this will also include a new pair of winter boots, though thats a different story)