Meanwhile, elsewhere in Norway: 12 degrees and sunshine
Meanwhile, -8 in Kiruna, but snow in Lyngen.
And you know the funny thing is people will see pictures like this, pictures of cars in ditches along dark and icy country roads, pictures of frowning police and road safety authority inspectors standing next to foreign trucks with no tyre tread nor chains on, pictures of rescue helicopters and ambulances in snowscapes, pictures of cabins where the water pipes have frozen and cracked, and still (STILL) don’t see the need to get their winter tyres on, presumably thinking that winter, for whatever reason, won’t come this year.
And when winter comes, as it inevitably does, there will be cars in ditches and trucks stuck on the road and big pile-ups and people will be late for work and the road safety authority inspectors and the police will frown even deeper.
I can already see the pictures of the pile-ups on the roads out of Oslo in my mind, can practically smell the ink on the headlines proclaiming SNOW CHAOS. The comment sections under the news articles will be on fire, positively incandescent, with the people from the northern parts of the country’s usual disbelief and mockery.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in Norway: 12 degrees and sunshine
Meanwhile, -8 in Kiruna, but snow in Lyngen.
And you know the funny thing is people will see pictures like this, pictures of cars in ditches along dark and icy country roads, pictures of frowning police and road safety authority inspectors standing next to foreign trucks with no tyre tread nor chains on, pictures of rescue helicopters and ambulances in snowscapes, pictures of cabins where the water pipes have frozen and cracked, and still (STILL) don’t see the need to get their winter tyres on, presumably thinking that winter, for whatever reason, won’t come this year.
And when winter comes, as it inevitably does, there will be cars in ditches and trucks stuck on the road and big pile-ups and people will be late for work and the road safety authority inspectors and the police will frown even deeper.
I can already see the pictures of the pile-ups on the roads out of Oslo in my mind, can practically smell the ink on the headlines proclaiming SNOW CHAOS. The comment sections under the news articles will be on fire, positively incandescent, with the people from the northern parts of the country’s usual disbelief and mockery.
But then again, that, too, is part of winter.
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