How Would 21st Century Britain Cope With A 1946/1947 Or 1962/1963 Style Winter?
A 1946/1947 or 1962/1963 in 21st Century Britain?
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1. How Would we Cope with such a winter?
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It would be hard to begin with but eventually we should get through it!
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It would be a complete and utter disaster with some may vicious circles!
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We would get through it like 2009/2010 and December 2010.
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We would never ever recover!
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Our Entire system of Education, Food, Sport, Work would be messed up with an effect on economy?
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We would get through it with no complaints?
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I don't care who the country does as I would cope!
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2. How Would You Cope?
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Terribe! Can't go to work, get food, kids off school - a living nightmare
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Pretty Bad! Extra hard work with looking after elderly neighbours and trying to do some work.
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Bad? I would love the weather but it would have too much of an effect on my life and community?
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Okay? I'm lived through 1963 and I love a good old fashioned winter execpt for the heating bills.
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Quite Good? I love snow and there would be no school but I can't see my friends and School will be hell afterwards.
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Good? No more of that scary boss at work and I and the village love snow? Just like the old days.
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Brilliant? I've always wanted a classic winter and I've got no School and I can in the snow with my family and neighbours.
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3. What Length of a Cold Spell would only just be Okay for the UK?
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1-2 Weeks - Just look at February 2009! We can't handle snow anymore!!!
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2-4 Weeks - A 2009/2010 event is the longest length of cold and snow that we can handle.
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1 Month - If we survived 2009/2010 then surely we could survive a few more weeks.
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1-2 Months - If we got through those classic winter then a month or two would be fine. But no longer!
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An entire winter - I think that in the end we would get through an entire winter but heating bills etc will be iffy.
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4. How Much snow can we handle.
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5-10CM - Well why else would the Met Office issued Extreme Weather warnings for 5cm
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10-20cm - For settlements and isolated areas this would be too much.
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20-40cm - If we got through 1947 and November 2010 then we should be fine with this.
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40-70cm - Some populated areas in the USA get 2 feet of snow and they cope.
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60-90cm - We coped with this in the past, the rest of the world can and the UK in 2011 can!
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100cm + - We should cope with 100cm and I would love it!
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5. Every Winter - What is the Snow Depth that aim to Get
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0-5cm - As long as we get lying snow
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5-10cm - Pretty decent for me
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10-20cm - I would love this
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20-40cm - I would love to see this again!
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40-60cm - I only got 20cm last year and other places got 60cm.
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60-90cm - This would be perfect in a classic North Easterly
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90cm + - Not too big and Not too small - Just perfect and I could still get about!
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