Flooding or snow?

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 26-10-2011 6:16pm

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Which do you find more annoying in regards travelling to work, etc...

would you rather be hit by a bus or a lorry?

i live in the west, in 2009 we seen the biggest floods in living memory, followed by the first "big freeze". In some places, the flood water had not retreated, and some roads were covered by first a foot of water, then a foot of ice!

Bobby Baccala · 26-10-2011 6:19pm

What about a flood of snow?

number10a · 26-10-2011 6:20pm

Snow. Definitely snow! Someone from another country would actually piss themselves laughing at such a question. You can prepare for snow and do things to get rid of it when it comes - just look at the rest of Europe for living proof. Can't do very much about floods when they come along.

AgileMyth · 26-10-2011 6:56pm

Well I'm living in an area that doesn't flood so I'm going to say Snow/Ice is more annoying to me.

phasers · 26-10-2011 7:20pm

I suppose snow, it doesn't come into your house and fuck your shit up

Jen Pigs Fly · 26-10-2011 7:21pm

I would rather flooding over snow any day!

Flooding goes away after a while, snow takes weeks if not months and impacts to ice.

I work with horses too so the snow makes it pretty much impossible for me to do anything with them

kfallon · 26-10-2011 7:25pm

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

I work with horses too so the snow makes it pretty much impossible for me to do anything with them

Racehorses?

LandL84 · 26-10-2011 7:28pm

I prefer snow, because it's always possible to deal with that easily, if you look at other countries where blankets of snow and ice last the whole winter 3 or 4 months every year and noone is really bothered. Floods have that destructive power and you just can't stop it or do something about it.

opinion guy · 26-10-2011 7:39pm

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

I would rather flooding over snow any day!

Flooding goes away after a while, snow takes weeks if not months and impacts to ice.

I work with horses too so the snow makes it pretty much impossible for me to do anything with them

Are horses good swimmers then ?

I would have thought horses would love the snow. Like dogs. Dogs go feckin apesh1t in snow. Its like all their Christmases came at once.

Fbjm · 26-10-2011 7:41pm

Oh god flooding. I live on a steep hill and fell three times last year

Also, the ice killed five people. The flooding killed two.

Corruptedmorals · 26-10-2011 8:01pm

I much prefer flooding. I understand it wrecks peoples houses and businesses but where I live NEVER ever floods and the busses are not affected except by delays (trains are though because of other stations). Snow though was very deep here last few years, and had numerous disastrous bus journeys etc and got stranded a few times.

sdanseo · 26-10-2011 8:49pm

Fbjm wrote: »

Oh god flooding. I live on a steep hill and fell three times last year Also, the ice killed five people. The flooding killed two.

The Ice lasted three weeks and affected everywhere, floods lasted a day and affected most of Leinster. That's 14 deaths per week vis 1.5 per week. If you wanted to be pedantic, that is.

Doylers · 26-10-2011 8:54pm

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

What about a flood of snow?

600+ posts and your not reading the first post :rolleyes: really

Doylers · 26-10-2011 8:55pm

Bought a car for €500

Lady crashed into it during snow.

Insurance pay me €1500 happy days

Buy new car for €1800

Will Santa bring me a new car? We shall see:p

MugMugs · 26-10-2011 9:28pm

Only takes a quite slash to make yellow snow...

How do you expect me to make a yellow flood and convince kids to cosume it ?

Jen Pigs Fly · 26-10-2011 9:41pm

kfallon wrote: »

Racehorses?

Show jumpers, my girl is a dressage horse.

Jen Pigs Fly · 26-10-2011 9:42pm

opinion guy wrote: »

Are horses good swimmers then ?

I would have thought horses would love the snow. Like dogs. Dogs go feckin apesh1t in snow. Its like all their Christmases came at once.

Most horses are terrified of water.

They're hooves have no grip on snow/ice and if they have metal shoes on snow can get impacted in the foot causing all sorts of medical problems.

We could get studs put into the shoes - like football studs - but honestly the price is way too much and not worth it when the grounds like an ice rinc.

nullzero · 26-10-2011 9:45pm

It's like a choice between having the sh1ts and vomitting isn't it?
Neither please.
I really hate snow so I'd do anything to avoid having to deal with it. Small amounts are ok but the crap we got last year was ridiculous, never again if possible.

Fluorescence · 26-10-2011 9:58pm

They're both awful - flooding and snow can kill. Flooding only mildly inconvenienced me for a half-day though, but snow seriously affected me for weeks last winter, so snow's a bigger pain if it's ongoing and we don't have the ability to deal with it as a nation.

That said I love winter and I adore snow.

Frank Black · 26-10-2011 10:06pm

I choose snow.

At least with snow there's some excuse for all the bad driving.

Was stuck on Perase St for an hour on Monday - I mean for feck sake, it's only rain!
It's Ireland - we should be used to driving in rain - we should be one of the best nationalites on the planet at driving in the rain.

But we're not - we're actually one of the worst!

and yes - I'm still angry!

opinion guy · 27-10-2011 12:46am

black francis wrote: »

I choose snow.

At least with snow there's some excuse for all the bad driving.

Was stuck on Perase St for an hour on Monday - I mean for feck sake, it's only rain!
It's Ireland - we should be used to driving in rain - we should be one of the best nationalites on the planet at driving in the rain.

But we're not - we're actually one of the worst!

and yes - I'm still angry!

To be fair we are pretty bad at driving in sunny weather too.

Flooding or snow?

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