Amateur Brain Surgery

I just had to say something about this weather. We’ve been experiencing a taste of Russian winter here in the UK and systems have all but ground to a halt. Transport is totally disrupted, schools are closed, more than one in five workers didn’t make it in to work yesterday and there is more nasty weather on the way.

My girlfriend, who works as a flight attendant, told me that she wasn’t able to get her car out of a dangerously frozen Gatwick car park so she is stuck in a hotel until the weather improves. Or at least that was her excuse for not getting home last night. (I think that she’s having an affair with a pilot but keep that to yourself…)

A fellow ABS member, who teaches English as a foreign language to Russian students in Brighton, said that his pupils were amazed at how unprepared Britons are for weather like this. They all traipsed into college without a care, astounded at the amount of disruption caused by a few hours of snow. They wondered how well the UK would cope with months of sub-zero temperatures and huge snow drifts.

And the news is full of stories of incredible stupidity. People setting off for work in their cosy warm family saloons only to end up stuck at a roadside somewhere with no warm clothing. In my opinion if anyone is stupid enough to go out in this weather without wrapping up properly they deserve hypothermia.