Sorry - I just feel like having a good moan. Here on the Chilterns we had max
4cm of snow at 5.00pm last night. I live on a steep hill on the main A404 from HIgh Wycombe to Amersham. There was plenty of warning of the snow but we never saw a salt lorry all day. So there was pack ice on the road and everybody was slipping and sliding - it took my neighbour from 4.30 to 11.30pm to do 8 miles to get home!!!! No change this morning - still pack ice and the traffic has been solid again since about 6.00am. Now at 10.20am the first grit lorry has just gone past.It amazes me - everyone knew there was going to be snow (and you can guarantee if there's any about that the tops of the Chilterns will get it) but we STILL get this nightmare every time.
Bucks County Council Highways - you're a joke. Apparently, according to their website, they decide when to salt the road depending on the road temperature, not the air temperature or the weather forecast! They even took away the salt box that used to be on the verge over road, which we could use to rescue stranded cars. Because of vandalism they said. There were at least 30 cars left abandoned just on this one hill all night.
/moan