I suppose I cannot avoid mentioning it. The cold and snow, that is.
In our part of Essex, we were hit hard by the snow which fell to a depth I can’t recall before. For the first time ever, I had to clear paths through the snow in the back garden to allow our two small dogs to get out of the house rather than have to tunnel through the white stuff. Four times I had to do this.
Like others around the country, our local council only salt and grit the major roads and so it is always a struggle to get out of our road and those leading to the main roads. The result is that we feel somewhat marooned as you see no-one about for days on end. As more folk get adventurous and start driving, the snow on the road becomes compacted and turns to ice. As, indeed, happened this week. If we had the equipment, we could actually skate along our road at this moment. I don’t complain about this, we just accept it as something which happens ever year.
Like most other people, we have put up with the bad weather with stoicism. What else can we do? The central heating has been on twenty-four hours a day all week, but that is the price, literally, we have had to pay to keep warm. The weather experts tell us that we have to face at least another week of cold weather and we are prepared for this.
What I want to know is: If we are in the grips of global warming, why is it so bloody cold?
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In our part of Essex, we were hit hard by the snow which fell to a depth I can’t recall before. For the first time ever, I had to clear paths through the snow in the back garden to allow our two small dogs to get out of the house rather than have to tunnel through the white stuff. Four times I had to do this.
Like others around the country, our local council only salt and grit the major roads and so it is always a struggle to get out of our road and those leading to the main roads. The result is that we feel somewhat marooned as you see no-one about for days on end. As more folk get adventurous and start driving, the snow on the road becomes compacted and turns to ice. As, indeed, happened this week. If we had the equipment, we could actually skate along our road at this moment. I don’t complain about this, we just accept it as something which happens ever year.
Like most other people, we have put up with the bad weather with stoicism. What else can we do? The central heating has been on twenty-four hours a day all week, but that is the price, literally, we have had to pay to keep warm. The weather experts tell us that we have to face at least another week of cold weather and we are prepared for this.
What I want to know is: If we are in the grips of global warming, why is it so bloody cold?
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