why does the uk grind to a halt when the weather takes a slightly unusual turn??! i live in berlin and during the summer, temps are regularly between 30-35deg... guess what??! everything works! in the winter when it's -20 everything still works!!!! the met office has been warning people about this weather for ages, yet people are still surprised??!
2006-07-19 00:04:37 · 9 answers · asked by emma a 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
i'm a brit and it drives me mad when i go back to the uk.....!
2006-07-19 00:12:39 · update #1
i'm not knocking the fact that the uk is ENJOYING the weather, i'm questioning the running of the basic infrastructre.
2006-07-19 00:17:29 · update #2
It's fun to moan!!! We can't moan if everything works, so we make sure everything breaks down on purpose so we can have excuses to have a good old whinge over a cup of tea or a pint.
XD
2006-07-19 04:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by badgerbadger 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
In the Uk everything grinds to a halt as we like to moan, its the hobby of many people from the UK, either its to hot or too cold. The thing is we just do not know what to do and seem always un-prepared this leads to moaning and then nothing gets done. I am laughing as today they said as the roads are melting they will send out the winter grit lorries to put down a grit to help. Why did they not make a better road surface they do the rest of the world and they do not have problems.
2006-07-19 00:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by angrybuthappy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's because they are not accustomed.
Also, now we can afford to do it. Heatwaves do kill a lot of old people, so they should be taken seriously, but nobody had the money for that. The weather is also more extreme because of the climate change (sudden heat ups).
Finally, if a country does not count with such temperatures, it also can damage buildings, sewing system... etc. I live in Hungary, and buildings are not designed to cope with -30°. Pipes just break in such low temperature.
2006-07-19 00:22:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the same old thing here in the uk, we just cannot cope with changes in the weather in the summer as it is with soaring heatwaves, there talking about gritting the roads as there melting lol.
and in the winter we get a high wind or bad storm and all the electric goes off, sodding stupid if you ask me, every other country copes but us but there again we are never satified we all moan cos its hot and in the winter we will all moan cos were damn cold lol.
thats the joy of the british weather and country its unpreditable like the people.
2006-07-19 01:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by jennycamuk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ye I'm living in Finland at the moment and in the winter its also -20 to -30 with a good meter of snow but the trains and buses run and i still drive my car funny or
2006-07-19 00:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by The Wanderer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because public transport is a nightmare - when it's autumn it's leaves on the train tracks, when it's summer the heat will bend the tracks, when it's winter there's ice on the tracks, when it rains the tracks become slippy!
2006-07-19 00:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by LOAJP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well considering its not very often we get nice weather we like to take advantage of the sunshine and the hot temperatures! To say we get only a few proper summer weeks compared to alot of other places its nice to make a big deal out of it. why shouldnt we?
2006-07-19 00:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because us brits dont get regulat hot summers and cold winters
2006-07-19 00:09:24 · answer #8 · answered by flymetothemoon279 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are just a nation of moaners, Im british and i agree with you.
2006-07-19 00:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋