Estimates are that around one quarter of all petrol stations in the UK will be empty by this Monday. That should prove to be interesting. Scenes in Dundee resemble a Lowry Painting or the scenes from 'The Day after tommorrow' after they warned folks not to leave the Library or they will die in the storm. Only main routes within the town are barely passable and in out lying areas are still suffering shortages such as bread and milk. The local Dundee City council are basically a disaster area waiting to happen, well I think it already is a disaster area with Civil Defense volunteers now taking over from the social services responsible for services for the elderly such as meals on wheels. They apparently shut up shop for a couple of days during the week. The post has not been delivered for the last week, apparently it is too much of a struggle for the Royal Mail which contrasts quite sharply to the efforts made by the newspaper delivery boys. Oh and a work colleague apparently died after falling on the untreated icy entrance steps of where she works. Basically its a complete and utter shambles. The Dundee Council policy of maintaining self gritting roads appears to failed spectacularly. It is something like FEMA deciding not to come into work that day because its cold outside, and I might get wet and slip in the snow.

Another week or two of cold weather in the UK will most likely see an unprecedented crisis despite the fact that the news media is ignoring the situation because only a couple of inches of snow fell within the M25 corridor around London.