Puncher:
Beolab1:
Merry Christmas from Amsterdam and a cry for help from The Netherlands. We are snowing in and our country is running out of salt! Help us! The trains are all messed up. The roads slippery. We can't handle this type of weather. Could some scandinavians come over and show our country how you people up north handle this perfectly every year?
My area of the UK has 12 days of salt left..............providing it cut's the number of treated roads to 30%!
Over here, it's too cold for road salt now! Temperature has now stayed below freezing for five weeks in a row and Helsinki area has the most snow for this time of year since 1915.
The answer is proper winter tyres and enough snow plows - which will then sit unused for most winters in Central Europe.
Tonight's news actually revealed that the Finnish aviation authorities are planning to sell knowhow on how to keeps the airports open after they have been asked for it by some other countries. Helsinki airport was last closed due to bad weather in 2003, and it lasted for half an hour...
Temperature now -22°C and dropping - good thing I don't need to go far tomorrow 