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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 4:11 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
I have to rant! I wish organisations stopped calling the situation "severe weather". "Severe weather", to me, is blizzard, minus 15 degrees or below, and can't see where I'm going and the snow banked up higher than my thighs (with high heels on)!

Why don't they just say "due to snow and ice", instead of "severe weather"? (Rhetoric, of course, not an actual question. I suppose they don't want to appear more incompetent than they actually do by calling it more benign, but correct, name.)
^^ Couldn't have put it better myself!! A couple of hours and just 3 inches of snow bring one of the world's biggest hubs to a standstill for 48 hours, even without more snow?? I ask you!!
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