Mystic Meg II

It’s still snowy outside but the world doesn’t seem to have stopped tonight. The H&S people must all be snuggled up in bed with their padded suits on and gloves so they don’t scratch themselves by accident like you do with newborns. Tomorrow they will be shaking their heads though.

Two days ago there was a downfall of snow. Common enough in the UK you would think but not nowadays as the place ground to a halt. I was too busy doing handbrake turns and skidding around to realise how dangerous it was. Silly me. I’m sure some would want me to lose my license and pay some sort of fine.

The next day it was a bit icy but fun again until I realised how quiet it was. Then I discovered that everywhere that the public sector was in was closed. I phoned up to find out what was going on and was told it was H&S. Ice is so dangerous. I commented that H&S must come before life itself and the response was you can’t be too careful.

As in all things we look at the risk and what it costs to mitigate and decide if it is worth it. Unfortunately, this is another area where our useless government departments screw us up. They take money from us to solve the problem, as in council tax for the road clearing, but then decide it is too dangerous for the trucks to do the side streets and so only the main roads get done. Still keeping our money of course. But they look at the cost to us as if we are the same as them. Get iced in for a week and the council understands, not a problem, work just doesn’t get done, but how many of us can do that for nearly a week?

So what I was thinking that instead of spending all that money working out what the tempratures will be in 2100 can’t we turn some of the processing power to what it will be next week. Surely that is going to be so much easier to predict. Then when they get the models tuned enough so they can predict what it will be in a few wees with accuracy then they could move on to next month, six weeks and so on. Then, maybe then, could the predict 2020 and beyond.

The current system they are using seems to be based on tea leaves or something and with global trade being compromised how are we going to get hold of good old tea leaves?

Although to be honest the problem is hardly the predictions and what the council does, who really cares about them. The problem is that we as a people are too much like wimps to just get on wih what we need to do. When I was a lad we had to go out in all weathers to get to work….

I used to ride a motorbike to work and had to defrost when I got there. The roads were still full of people making their way along slippy roads and this was when the snow and ice lasted for days. Now two hours of heavy snow and we are stuck for nearly a week while the rest of the world laughs at us.

Let’s get out there while we can and have fun slipping and sliding away while it is still legal and for the rest of you can I suggest that you look on the Blogosphere from your nice cozy home and find out what a state we have become in the last 20 years. Time to get rid of the PC crowd, the H&S crowd, the Global Warming crowd and that whole bunch in Westminster. Read until you get so het up you feel you could even go out in the ice. Not that you would risk it of coursebut it sure feels good to say it. What a rebel.

In the meantime I understand our Met office employs 1600 people. Cost £170M has one of the largest computers going and we still can’t predict snow in Winter and Hot days in Summer. Clive Sinclair should provide an upgrade so we can get more processing power.