h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Everything falls to pieces, yet again, totally... Yet again after teh winter, like last winter we'll hear the phrase 'important lessons to be learnt'.... and yet again the next time it snows we'll fall to bits immediatly... So, why can't we handle snow in the UK?

It falls too early, too late, or is just plain inconsiderate snowing when it does

Same answer as last year: the cost of serious infrastructure to cope with snow, like they might have in Canada or New England, isn't worth it. It's actually cheaper to put up with a few people missing work for that one day a year when there's serious snow.

Did I say "serious" snow? Scratch that bit.

Yep, you did. We have the proof of it up there

No.... its not a lack of investment in wizzy high tech, major expensive stuff... its councils with insufficnet salt, no one to drive the equipment they do have to grit roads, and a continueing inability to build schools out of anythign cept paper and cardboard, which I'm sure were anyone ever to do any detailed costings on, always end up working out more expensive even in the medium term, than building actual buildings which work... A lot of it seems to come down to just poor management, an inability to use sensibably waht resources there are, and to have suitable resources on hand (both physical resources and people resources mind)