In article , Sacha
writes
We saw the same thing and were amazed at the complete meltdown - unhappy
choice of phrase, perhaps. But there are a couple of things to consider, I
suppose. While the roads *looked* clear on the TV news, it had undoubtedly
been snowing quite a lot earlier and I suspect the hold ups were due to
traffic accidents which hadn't been cleared quickly. And of course, people
down here aren't used to driving in ANY snowy conditions and apprehension
alone can cause accidents.

Not necessarily even accidents. it just takes a couple of people not to
manage a particularly tricky bit (eg not to make it up the other side of
a dip) on a busy road for you rapidly to get a tailback - the news
photos were of the tailback and not necessarily of the worst bit of the
snow.


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Kay
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