For those who do not live in the U.K, over the last few days we've had, (wait for it)..............................SNOW!!....While it is true that some areas had significant amounts, we here in the south, had less than 15 cm, around 6". This put the whole of Britain in lockdown because we just do not know how to deal with it.
A Polish friend said, "one snowflake here and everyone panics, try waking up to a metre and a half of snow blocking your door"
The obsession is beyond ridiculous, the news is taken over by it and special programs are put on tv about "The beast from the east" Panic buying in the supermarkets, people buying 20 loaves of bread and gallons of milk "just in case" and as for driving, well, they havn't got a clue!! Railways stop, ( can you believe they once said "because of the WRONG KIND of snow")? Motorways close due to multiple accidents, and the gritting lorries are never seen.
Schools close, the kids need looking after at home so parents can't go to work., no chance of getting childcare at short notice, plus anything and everything that can possibly be blamed on the weather stops.
Anyone from eastern Europe, North America, to name just two must be laughing like Hyena's at us!
Ah, Looking out my window I see that it's melting away now.

 

Time for a party!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5715395/storm-emma-uk-weather-snow-wind-night-out-pictures/

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5703153/heart-stopping-moment-bus-slides-to-within-inches-of-car-only-to-be-saved-by-drivers-deft-handling/

 

For those who do not live in the U.K, over the last few days we've had, (wait for it)..............................SNOW!!....While it is true that some areas had significant amounts, we here in the south, had less than 15 cm, around 6". This put the whole of Britain in lockdown because we just do not know how to deal with it.
A Polish friend said, "one snowflake here and everyone panics, try waking up to a metre and a half of snow blocking your door"
The obsession is beyond ridiculous, the news is taken over by it and special programs are put on tv about "The beast from the east" Panic buying in the supermarkets, people buying 20 loaves of bread and gallons of milk "just in case" and as for driving, well, they havn't got a clue!! Railways stop, ( can you believe they once said "because of the WRONG KIND of snow")? Motorways close due to multiple accidents, and the gritting lorries are never seen.
Schools close, the kids need looking after at home so parents can't go to work., no chance of getting childcare at short notice, plus anything and everything that can possibly be blamed on the weather stops.
Anyone from eastern Europe, North America, to name just two must be laughing like Hyena's at us!
Ah, Looking out my window I see that it's melting away now.

You mean

 

We got you beat.......over here we shut down cities for wind.

 

It's the End Times for Britain.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/03/lidl-supermarket-destroyed-looters-snow-storm/

Gangs of thieves used the chaos caused by Storm Emma to use a stolen digger to rip off the roof of a supermarket before smashing the store’s safe.
In a series of mobile phone videos posted on the internet, looters were seen running through a blizzard to ransack a Lidl supermarket as an excavator was used to destroy the building in the west of Dublin on Friday night.
Looters were seen emerging from the store carrying food and alcohol.

https://extra.ie/2018/03/03/news/irish-news/lidl-citywest-tallaght-digger

 

For those who do not live in the U.K, over the last few days we've had, (wait for it)..............................SNOW!!....While it is true that some areas had significant amounts, we here in the south, had less than 15 cm, around 6". This put the whole of Britain in lockdown because we just do not know how to deal with it.
A Polish friend said, "one snowflake here and everyone panics, try waking up to a metre and a half of snow blocking your door"
The obsession is beyond ridiculous, the news is taken over by it and special programs are put on tv about "The beast from the east" Panic buying in the supermarkets, people buying 20 loaves of bread and gallons of milk "just in case" and as for driving, well, they havn't got a clue!! Railways stop, ( can you believe they once said "because of the WRONG KIND of snow")? Motorways close due to multiple accidents, and the gritting lorries are never seen.
Schools close, the kids need looking after at home so parents can't go to work., no chance of getting childcare at short notice, plus anything and everything that can possibly be blamed on the weather stops.
Anyone from eastern Europe, North America, to name just two must be laughing like Hyena's at us!
Ah, Looking out my window I see that it's melting away now.

Don't worry, we see the same things here. There are lots of places around the country that (to us) go bonkers any time some snow or ice makes an appearance and it's not uncommon to see widespread shutdowns and a smattering of deaths. Same thing with heat waves in places that don't normally get so hot.

We tend to forget that weather that person A takes for granted because it is an expected phenomenon at least every few years can be very hard for person B, who lives in an area that seldom sees that phenomenon in several decades to deal with. And it doesn't have to be that individual people can't handle it, it can be that the infrastructure or even the natural environment can't handle it. Where I live if we get more than a couple inches of rain in a 24 hour period, we can expect major flash floods, various types of service disruptions, significant damage, and very possibly some fatalities. But then our average annual rainfall is about 17 inches, the ground around here can't absorb a lot of water quickly because of the clay stratas that are all over the place, and we have terrain that funnels the water from large areas down into small choke points. Big Thompson killed about 150 people and that was 12 inches of rain in three hours. I was looking at some data for Taiwan a few years ago when they were having a typhoon and there was a city there that had 84 inches in one day and nothing was noted because it well within what they could handle.

I get a bit frustrated around here because they are too quick to delay or close school even before there's any actual snow or ice, just if it is predicted to be more than a couple inches. I understand that they are being overly cautious and erring on the side of safety and yada yada, but I think they go too far. I grew up north of Denver in a very similar climate and throughout my entire K-12 experience our school closed twice, once in elementary school when the boilers went out and once in high school when there was a natural gas leak. We never even checked if school was closed due to snow, because we knew it wasn't going to be. After a bad storm in third grade our superintendent caught some flak at a board meeting for not closing school and he just responded that he would cancel school when the snow was so deep he couldn't see out his living room window. So we trudged to school in sub-zero temperatures with strong winds and two or more feet of snow. That's just the way it was. In elementary school it might as well have been uphill both ways, too, because it was a very steep hill (the school was called Sunset Ridge for a reason) and neither the uphill nor the downhill journey was fun on those days. I don't recall ever hearing about anyone that was injured as a result of not closing school (which is not to say that it never happened). After I graduated I was over at a friend's house and she pointed to the superintendent's house down the road from her and so of course I immediately looked for the living room window and realized that it was on the second floor!

EDIT: Typos and grammar.

 

Time for a party!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5715395/storm-emma-uk-weather-snow-wind-night-out-pictures/

Scary!

 

It's the End Times for Britain.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/03/lidl-supermarket-destroyed-looters-snow-storm/

https://extra.ie/2018/03/03/news/irish-news/lidl-citywest-tallaght-digger

This was just a little snow storm. Can you imagine what things will be like in a global disaster? I wouldn't want to be near any major city. I wished I lived further from major population centers than I do. I live in a fairly populated area but no where near like Toronto, London or Chicago. I visited Toronto a year or two ago and all I could think of was "what a powder keg.

 

I wouldn't want to be near any major city. I wished I lived further from major population centers than I do.

I know! I'm not a handgun person and my long guns are better when the targets are a little farther away.

 

I know! I'm not a handgun person and my long guns are better when the targets are a little farther away.

Guns?



I collect the early Colt MK IV 1911 Government Models. Above are a few which I own. I also like the early Colt and S&W revolvers in addition to my rifle stash. The one type gun I do not own is a shotgun.

My neighbors all joke with me telling me if things ever get really ugly they are coming over.

Ron

 

Those guns don't look like standard government issue. My duty .45 was as old as Moses. Only had to pull it once on SP overseas. We didn't pull the trigger on a guy but a .45 makes a great knuckle sandwich on a fighting drunk resisting.

 

Those guns don't look like standard government issue. My duty .45 was as old as Moses. Only had to pull it once on SP overseas. We didn't pull the trigger on a guy but a .45 makes a great knuckle sandwich on a fighting drunk resisting.

They are far from GI Issue. Colt manufactured the Series 70 guns from 1970 to 1983. I do have a GI 1911 manufactured by Remington. The series 70 1911 Models also include the Gold Cup versions which are match guns. The original GI 1911 guns in good condition, depending on manufacturer currently draw in the $2000 to $3000 and up with some WW II versions well above $5000. Go figure huh. The commercial 1911 guns I collect are also chambered in 9mm as well as .38 Super. I have a like new .38 Super and am always looking for a nice 9mm version, all the rest of mine are traditional .45 ACP.

Now if it would just quit snowing I would like to get out to the outdoor range. As to weather we got about another foot of snow here in the SE Cleveland, Ohio suburbs. This is really getting old. Been snowing on and off all day on top of last nights snow.

Ron

 

They are far from GI Issue. Colt manufactured the Series 70 guns from 1970 to 1983. I do have a GI 1911 manufactured by Remington. The series 70 1911 Models also include the Gold Cup versions which are match guns. The original GI 1911 guns in good condition, depending on manufacturer currently draw in the $2000 to $3000 and up with some WW II versions well above $5000. Go figure huh. The commercial 1911 guns I collect are also chambered in 9mm as well as .38 Super. I have a like new .38 Super and am always looking for a nice 9mm version, all the rest of mine are traditional .45 ACP.

Now if it would just quit snowing I would like to get out to the outdoor range. As to weather we got about another foot of snow here in the SE Cleveland, Ohio suburbs. This is really getting old. Been snowing on and off all day on top of last nights snow.

Ron

Nice, I only have one .45 that needs a good post winter workout.

 

Gotta love the .45 ACP round and sweet gun you have there. OMG, the evil Black Talon. Do you remember all the incredible stupid hype that surrounded them? I still have a box of them in .45 ACP around here somewhere. Talk about humorous:

The ammunition was decried by those opposed to civilian ownership of handguns. Some medical personnel were concerned that the sharp barb-like tips could potentially cause tears in the surgical gloves and hands of the medical workers, exposing them to greater risk of infection, however there are no documented reports of this actually happening. Most jacketed bullet designs that expand expose sharp edges or corners.

The ammunition was used by the gunman of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting for his Ruger P89 9×19mm pistol. In 1996 a lawsuit was subsequently filed by one of the victim's family members (McCarthy v. Sturm, Ruger and Co., Inc., 916 F.Supp. 366 (S.D.N.Y., 1996)) claiming that Olin Corp. should be liable for the shooting spree based on the design, manufacture, marketing, and sale of Black Talon ammunition. The claims against Olin were dismissed because it was held that the bullets "functioned exactly as designed".[11]

In 1993 Winchester removed the ammunition from public sale, but at no time was Black Talon ammunition uniformly prohibited by US law. Winchester's Ranger SXT line of ammunition is of the same basic design.

Just when you think people cannot get any more foolish with beliefs...

Seeing the box of Remington Thunderbolts reminds me I have a real nice 1911 conversion kit made by Colt for changing a 1911 to a 22 LR pistol.

Again, you have yourself one sweet pistol there. Get out this spring and summer and exercise it.

Ron

 

That 22 conversion for the 1911 was useful when you needed to train people to shoot. 22 ammo is a lot cheaper than .45

 

That 22 conversion for the 1911 was useful when you needed to train people to shoot. 22 ammo is a lot cheaper than .45

Maintains the same weight of the pistol and is just plain enjoyable fun to shoot. Turns a 1911 into a nice "plinking" pistol.

Ron