HTFU London

The whole city shut down due to 3ins of snow? really? I ride my track bike in that with 23c slicks over the williamsburg bridge (in grownup cloths) and don't even blink. When I was the age of the bike grooms schools where open untill there was more then a foot of snow. really city wide HTFU.

thanks for ever one who took time out of their snow day to email/ pm me.

To be fair, when they have snow days in New York they also have ploughs (or plows as they call them) and gritters. Yesterday, we had neither.

But if it only happens every 20 years then it's hardly surprising that neither the contingency plans or the budgets to deal with it are in place/working efficiently.
If it happened every year it would be a different story.
Your spelling has suffered a relapse, by the way...

I ride my track bike in that with 23c slicks over the williamsburg bridge (in grownup cloths) and don't even blink.

well aren't you a big boy!

I love how the news are all crapping on about being ill-prepared blah blah and everyone is having a whinge.. but heaviest snow in 18 years.. not exactly cause for the whole fucking country to rush out and spend millions on gritting equipment and fucking snow tyres is it?

Shut The Fuck Up broadcasters and whining mofo on the street.

But when your firm's disaster recovery plan screws up because they had not envisaged a day when half the workforce would skive off and try and log in from home, one has to wonder. I think their planning was only for a disaster in which most of us died.

...heaviest snow in 18 years.. spend millions on gritting equipment and fucking snow tyres?

That's the problem because this kind of weather isn't the norm, we're not really as well equipped as other nations that get this weather on a more regular basis.

The gritters have been out the the roads are ok again, just very wet, I think we can handle wet roads.

I don't get it cliveo. Why does your disaster recovery plan need everyone/anyone in the office?

Now, last time I checked disasters usually involved the complete loss of your office, data centre, etc. so it sounds like an epic fail on the part of the disaster planners.

I think we can handle wet roads.

I can't, I'm going back to bed for a week until this blows over...

...I'm already sick of listening to the sanctimonious fuckers that did manage to make it in to work yesterday!

Well done you!

I didn't, I spent the whole day playing in the snow, unfortunately the roads are clear and I don't have an excuse today.

The funny thing is that this kaos happens in Oslo nearly every year as well. The first snow falls come, and all the roads fill up with struggling cars before the ploughs have a chance to get on the road.

No snow here but its -6C, so its still pretty nasty cycling conditions (really must buy myself some motocross trousers)

I don't get it cliveo. Why does your disaster recovery plan need everyone/anyone in the office?

Now, last time I checked disasters usually involved the complete loss of your office, data centre, etc. so it sounds like an epic fail on the part of the disaster planners.

Our disaster recovery plan is meant to operate when no one can get to the office. Everyone logs in from home and off they go.

Yesterday just over half of our staff skived off. Many (but not all) tried to log in from home. The system crashed. Disaster recovery plan fail.

Only those who made it in were able to work.

If a bomb goes off, I expect that the plan, from an IT perspective, requires a large death toll or the system will fail again. Not very comforting from a personal nor business perspective.

The whole city shut down due to 3ins of snow? really? I ride my track bike in that with 23c slicks over the williamsburg bridge (in grownup cloths) and don't even blink. When I was the age of the bike grooms schools where open untill there was more then a foot of snow. really city wide HTFU.

thanks for ever one who took time out of their snow day to email/ pm me.

I'm with Chris, this whole thing is a national fucking embarrasment. Everything shut down yesterday. For the first time since the war they cancelled the bus service. And it cost the UK something like £3bn.

WTF?

'Ello Chris. It's different riding in NYC, although I seem to remember that the first snows of the year last year involved alot of cyclists walking.

BTW, take care of John for me. he seems to think he's coming back here, but I know better.

when i were a boy, i used to have to crawl naked through 18' of snow, laced with sewage, for 35 miles just to get a light for my stove so as i could heat up a meager breakfast of a single lump of coal.

HTFU NYC.

when i were a boy, i used to have to crawl naked through 18' of snow, laced with sewage, for 35 miles just to get a light for my stove so as i could heat up a meager breakfast of a single lump of coal.

Luxury.

when i were a boy, i used to have to crawl naked through 18' of snow, laced with sewage, for 35 miles just to get a light for my stove so as i could heat up a meager breakfast of a single lump of coal.

HTFU NYC.

You had a stove?

Bollocks.

I think it's very sad that so many people are so preoccupied with the idea of being a big man and hardening up that they can't see the joy in an impromptu holiday where people have fun in the snow. Cheer up!

some people didn't go to work, some did.

what do you expect?
people who are on a salary in a boring job get half a chance at an excuse not to work they're going to take it! we are always being told UK workers are lazy, why not live up to it.

it's not a case of HTFU, those who wanted to travel, did so. the desperate lemmings going on precious holiday only to arrive at the airport and find planes unable to take off.

I just wish the pavements weren't so icy. in NY I bet they grit the sidewalks, or have those hot air things warming them up. Don't be fooled into thinking new-yorkers are tough, any country that allows it's denizens to become obese so easily isn't a hard place.

PS, I miss you Chris.

wre you in NY for good now chris?

chris youre my hero.

Chris, yesterday:

chris, you may have left london, but you live on in our media establishments.