Embarrassing Sweden. Embarrassing
Today's morning news has brought up yet another traffic chaos in southern Sweden. Now, it doesn't come as a shock to an expatriate northerner that southerners can't drive in the snow. The Germans are a typical example of this, as the Autobahn goes from an average speed of 150 knicks to 40 km/h at the slightest snowfall.
When to have winter tires or not seems to be difficult to figure out. Last week I scratched the window one morning. I also walked around in shorts one day.
Which somehow reminds me of this gem:
But when I woke up this morning, I saw the headline on my Ekot podcast "Madeleine was stuck for hours on the E20 in the snow chaos" and thought the app had bugged and looked back on January 3rd with the chaos on the E22 where over 1000 southerners got stuck for almost a day. Which the Swedish Minister of Infrastructure calls "A failure". That's one way to put it! At least we've learned something and it won't happen again!
But it wasn't my eyes that deceived me, but my head. Of course it has happened again. Just a few months later actually. So today.
Overnight it snowed a few decimetres again and the E4 at the height of Skärstad became like my nose last week, totally clogged. So we haven't learned anything after all.
Both yellow and orange warnings have clearly been issued for the snow storm over Svealand and Götaland on Tuesday. How hard is it to grasp?
Here, The newpaper Expressen takes up a report about a man called Lasse. Lasse had noted the weather warnings, considered the alternatives and still set out in traffic. Deaf and with diabetes. What are you then thinking? Apparently, he thinks the information "was deficient". What is unclear about orange weather warning?
He didn't have any food, water or diabetes medicine with him either. Because who needs it as a diabetic? Hole-in-the-head.
What do people think with?
Where is people's common sense?
Since when did it jump out the window?
Where is the responsibility of the common man?
Why does the state have to tell people that now specifically you can't drive this road for long. If the weather warnings and radio news weren't enough information about it?
What happens if the Russians come?
Why don't people have reasonable equipment in the car anymore?
Fuck curling parents. Everyone seems to live in a curling state!
Bring a muesli bar. Always have a water bottle available in the car. Blanket. Candle lights. None of this takes any significant place. After all, I have the shit in Germany and here there is not much of a snow season... If you have complications like diabetes, BRING THE MEDICINE!
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