Snow

As I type this it is currently the 13th of January, just gone 11 o'clock. We, as a nation, are currently facing weather disaster! Snow. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Some one has surely got this all wrong. Disaster? Since when was snow a disaster? Snow is a wonderful thing! Snow unites people. I remember in February last year, I was rather sociable. It brought me and my friends together. A year later we get some of the white stuff and now all of a sudden, we go into panic overload.
Currently gritters are running out of grit. Schools have been closed and I am suffering from a sore throat that whenever I giggle, sounds like I'm on the peak of my voice breaking. Although that's not a distaster. The news has been stating it's a disaster. What's lacking is common sense. You here these people of losing their lives by falling into ice, which is tragic, I make that utterly clear. But what are you doing on the ice in the first place? Poke the bear for too long, he's going to have you on toast! Get off the damn ice. "What happens if I jump up and down on it?" You're going to fall through.
"Don't go out unless it's completely necessary." What is completely necessary? Stocking up I can understand. Work is necessary, yet for some people it could take 3 hours to get there due to bad traffic. Needing to go to the hospital is necessary, especially if you have an appointment, but if everyone took the same "Nah, it's too cold to go to work. It's not necessary" approach like school teachers do, then you're going to be left knocking at the door, wondering where everyone is.
It's ridiculous! Stop going into a mad, frantic panic NEWS PEOPLE and go sledging!