We have a moderate climate and we are not really used to snow and ice anymore, not is the South of England anyway. So the heavy snow and freezing weather over the last few days has caused a lot of problems. Monday night Basingstoke in Hampshire gridlocked and 2,000 cars were abandoned (which of course screwed up any chance of snow ploughs and gritters getting round). Just down the road a few miles, in Winchester, the ancient capital of England, much the same thing happened. Some sensible drivers who realised that the road was blocked, rather than abandon their cars in the road drove them off the road into the car park of the Roebuck Inn, thus keeping the road clear for the plough. Next morning when they came back they had been wheel clamped and had to pay to get their car back. A spokesperson for the clamp company Cobra Security, far from accepting that these drivers had behaved responsibly for the common good, said "they should have left them at the side of the road".
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