Miles of cars trapped in snow as Storm Gerrit wreaks travel chaos across Britain

[@lupusoutdoors]

Snow in December in the Highlands ? Wow, incredible ….

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

😂😂😂

[@Paul-c01]

Tabloid media: "Snowy death from above". Kitesurfers in Cornwall and Devon: "Hold my coat"

[@FranklinYoung-s9d]

I know! It’s also dark in the night, whatever next?! What did private Frasier say:?we’re doomed!!!

[@russiandrivers9986]

Oh no, it's snowing in the places where it normally snows this time of year.

[@Enid_senclair]

😂😂😂😂 👌

[@Lloyd.Browne]

As a nation living in the northern hemisphere- this is newsworthy lol

[@aleccap5946]

And people wonder why we've become so pathetic when horror of horrors it snowed in winter and in Scotland 😂

[@MontysKillerRabbit]

Still newsworthy in case family etc are concerned they haven't heard from someone. You utter dummies.

[@Buttsy1]

Loads more people die from cold exposure than heat, so it's not just saved you money on your heating bill, its saving lives!!

[@ant6695]

Good to see so many aren't taken in by the climate "crisis" BS.😂

[@andrew30m]

A few people ignoring the entire planets scientific bodies and royal societies because their education was limited and they watched a few KZbin videos.

[@AlexP1-y4g]

​@@andrew30m oh yes scientists, the same people who do experiments they've created, to prove themselves right.

[@siypic]

Entire planet.......... lol@@andrew30m

[@TheObserver83]

​@@andrew30mexactly. Before humans, the climate was always the same for millions of years, it never changed.

[@mikewade777]

What are you talking about, the UK hasn't had a white Christmas in 30 years. This is due to it being globally warmer.

[@Crackassassin]

When I was young we called this " winter "

[@grahvis]

Are you saying that every winter you had to wade though 2-3 foot of water?

[@zantas-handle]

That's just crazy talk Old Timer!

[@EddWolf78]

This is pretty tame compared to what I remember from many years ago. I think they just need something to report

[@SillyBillies1]

You must have a half a brain

[@hattmarvey1989]

@@grahvis Yep. Where I grew up, the river flooded ever few years. And in other years it nearly dried up. That's called "weather", it is perfectly natural. P.S. A "flood plane" is created because it has flooded there regularly for thousands of years, it is not new.

[@LeilaLamb]

Rain, snow and wind hits the UK in winter - shocker!

[@mikewade777]

Well it is, it should be just snow, like it use to be 30 years ago.

[@BIN3RY]

You mean winter weather in winter?

[@LittleMissPyeWacket]

More accurate description would be chaos hits Scotland. As someone who lives in Devon, the sea always looks like that in winter.

[@MontysKillerRabbit]

You live in Devon. Comparing it to Scotland is asinine, grow a brain.

[@1961-v9k]

Same up here on the rugged Northeast Coast 👍🏼

[@TerryUrquhart-v4w]

It’s just The Sun scratching for news to sell their paper …it’s always like that at Drumochter …you will notice it’s the southbound carriageway that the cars are stuck in ..North bound dudes know what it’s like and can handle it … and a lot of the video is SotB anyway …

[@Tuborgsefu]

This is how winter looks like

[@mikewade777]

Now, but 30 years ago it snowed everywhere, rain now common used to be rare.

[@anni50ful]

This is normal in winter in Cornwall,in fact i I've seen worse only now it's given a stupid name so it sounds more dramatic ☺

[@Highlandwolf2sas]

What is going on.....we used to have two feet of snow every year and not this kind of chaos 🤔 Why was the road not gritted and allowed to get in that state give it’s only a few inches....Where is all the money going ?....

[@psibug565]

They are spending a lot more money on grit but that is the problem we haven’t needed it in recent times. Neither have our closest neighbours and now even though production is ramping up the UK aren’t the only country with this problem in Europe. So the demand for grit and other equipment to deal with these problems out strips supply. UK isn’t the only country that is grinding to a holt in winter, they just don’t report about other countries now days.

[@mikewade777]

The UK isn't grinding to a holt over a small localised patch of snow in the north.@@psibug565

[@nicholasgloc8555]

Immigrants.

[@briantaylor8839]

Overseas bank accounts for the fat cats

[@zsuzsannawilliams9668]

The other factor is summer tyres in winter on cars. At least have all weather ones or snow chain in places likely to have more snow.

[@oildrag]

It’s called winter 🇬🇧

[@ralphplumb7027]

And those heaterless electric car batterys draining by the second!!!

[@andrew30m]

😂😂hardly, my electric car heats up really quickly and I can turn it on from inside the house, it’s awesome.

[@EddWolf78]

Why do they feel the need to give the weather a special name every time it’s a little wet, windy or snows? This is normal, fairly tame, weather. Hell the weather we grew up with when we were young makes this look like summer 🤷‍♀️

[@jbfitness38jb37]

Its a distraction thing. County is doing bad and any little thing the media can put on to distract the masses they will.. As you said it's nothing extreme. But yet the put it at for front news like its something serious..

[@richardsmith579]

Yes. Every puff of wind is given a name now, it’s ridiculous. They just want to scare everyone.

[@Debbie-henri]

No, it isn't normal and this isn't the sort of weather we had when we were young. So don't kid yourself that it is. I never heard of anywhere being flooded at Christmas at any time in my past (I'm 57, obviously a good deal older or in possession of a better memory than you). I've lived both north and south within this country (in 16 locations no less), and never once was I flooded, not have any friends, relatives or colleagues been flooded. So don't claim it's normal. It is not. Neither are storms at the intensity we have now are normal. So don't kid yourself on that score either. The 1987 hurricane was an entirely isolated, freak storm that occurred out of the blue. The first major storm since 1706. So that's once in 280 years. Previously, we used to get a little bit of windy weather in October and again in March. And that was it. Now we get up to several such storms every year. That's not normal at all. Snow falls mostly just after Christmas, but it's not unknown to fall at Christmas. If it was a frequent thing to fall so heavily at Christmas, you wouldn't have so many twits on the road making a hard task of visiting everyone they can think of. Personally, I take the term Christmas holiday at its full meaning - a holiday. That means I visit no one and I don't invite people round. The last thing I want is to be inconvenienced or put anyone else to any inconvenience for the sake of a bit of food and a present I can send by courier. Stay at home, Keep off the roads (50% of people on the road at Christmas in Scotland are over the limit anyway). So definitely best to stay home, keep warm, and leave the visiting until the summer (you're not going to be visited by 3 ghosts just for leaving it until better weather).

[@P..]

It’s called documentation. The storms are given names once discovered so they can be tracked more easily.

[@systemunknown7521]

If we named them just storm, how are we supposed to document positioning and behaviour when there could be multiple weather fronts, names obviously make it easier

[@konrad9240]

The british winter’s nightmare just begun, winter during winter😂. 1” snow, temp minus 2-4, the country paralyzed, in the one of the richest country of this World. In east Europe 50 years ago, when that part of the Europe, was one of the poorest part of the World in that time, during winter winter(minus 30C), everything worked😂.

[@TerryUrquhart-v4w]

Nobody paralysed up here in Scotland buddy …. Just a winters morning for us ….

[@BeardieD]

Across Britain? Really? 6am here in Midlands and it's 9c

[@georgebarnes8163]

11c here on the Antrim coast

[@raymondturner3952]

Imagine if normal everyday people were as feeble as those who work in the media.

[@elizabethstockdale2784]

Another normal winters day in Scotland!

[@joerooney9808]

This would be a headline if it was June

[@NotApplicaple]

What happens to a persons kilt in weather like that ?😮

[@jbuckley2546]

Arrested for exposure.

[@adoculos4521]

Onlookers get an eye full.😂

[@alisonhall4465]

Wear thermal boxers …

[@ianpodmore9666]

It's quite incredible how the people of Siberia and northern Canada survive isn't it.

[@chicken69075]

They have power snow. So that makes a difference.

[@evgeniam685]

We in Russia don't survive, we enjoy it, winter without snow isn't winter. Christmas and New year without snow and just concrete is boring and not magical. You get to do so many things, playing like kids snow ball, build snowman, skiing, create angel on snow. I used to go school when I was 8 when it was minus 35 :)) it was experience. But it makes you tougher

[@DarylSolis]

1:15 dude is just living his best life

[@jaykay7932]

Two reasons for flooding: 1. Increased urban development (look at how many houses for sale with Astro turf lawns!!), 2. They do not clear the drainage ditches which causes flooding. In Thailand it can rain for 4 hours solid and never floods BECAUSE drainage is kept clear and clean.

[@rbxrockettrio8650]

Bro iv seen videos in Thailand with people sitting in their homes up to their arms in water

[@andrew30m]

Laughable nonsense, you people just make stuff up. Two days ago headlines. Tens of thousands affected as severe flooding hits Thailand’s south Schools closed, roads and railways submerged and people forced onto their roofs amid torrential rain.

[@nobodyanderson4353]

FLOODS IN SOUTHERN Thailand have killed at least six people and affected tens of thousands of households. The floods, which began on 22 December, have hit more than 70,000 homes across the provinces of Satun, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, according to regional officials.

[@user-John666]

Absolutely correct. In my area the council never clear the leaves away in autumn and then, incredibly, when it rains and snows more in the winter, the drains overflow and it all runs down to the river at the bottom of the hill. This gets flooded and the council and authorities blame it on “climate change”.

[@Richnineteenseventyone]

All the extra weight of the immigrunts is making the country sink as well.

[@bizarroworld3902]

I was absolutely terrified!! Nearly blew the washing off the line.

[@breakablehandlewithcare]

😂

[@eddieroadrunner6691]

😂😂😂😂

[@neezduts69420]

That windsurfer looks like hes having the time of his life 😂😂😂

[@dude851]

4 winter tyres + quarto + snow = fun

[@leabeauty837]

Seriously, but where is this weather? Just not happening where I am.

[@Mykst]

Scottish highlands

[@leabeauty837]

@@Mykst Well this is very normal for Scotland. Even England at this time of year, but just a bit wet & windy here. They are making it seem like it’s the whole of the UK

[@zantas-handle]

If you look at the top of the screen it tells you the name of the place where the weather footage is from.

[@Mykst]

@@leabeauty837 If you watch the Met Office forecasts on KZbin they tell you the specifics. Even if it's normal it doesn't come without its impacts for some and snow like this has become increasingly rare nowadays compared to before. My area got hit pretty hard these past 48 hours.

[@jaykay7932]

I love how every time a tree falls people just film it and moan, rather than attached a towing rope to it and moving it out of the way like me and my dad did recently with a felled tree

[@tubecated_development]

Nice work. Different people are different. More and more people are dumber thanks to smartphones types.

[@nevkrisjackson8065]

Free firewood 😂

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

Few inches of rain…. Barely a few inches of snow. Western Media has become a Joke.

[@philliphall8792]

Scandinavian countries must be laughing their heads off at us here in the UK...! It's not a storm, it's called "the weather"....!

[@zantas-handle]

We need thousands of politicians to fly somewhere fancy in private jets so that they can discuss why Winter is wintry and how plebs like us need to turn down our heating so that they can fly to more conferences.

[@psibug565]

Thanks for informing us on what politicians jobs are. I don’t mind them flying around to get deals with other countries, that’s how we get trade deals. I do hate that we are spending billions for them to redo all the trade deals we used to have. PS: No trade, no heating.

[@hattmarvey1989]

@@psibug565 Before Brexit, the UK had only one trade deal, with the EU. They ripped us off, ignored their own regulations with impunity, and did *nothing* to help the UK's economy. Now the UK is exporting more that it has ever done.

[@robertgisthebest]

​@@psibug565 I think he may be referring to climate conferences.

[@nige5902]

@@psibug565heard of zoom and what’s app?

[@zantas-handle]

@@psibug565 You need to re-read the comment as you seem to have missed the point.

[@brianpaige4884]

Its called winter... happens every year..... also keeps the boats away.... good old winter

[@California265]

Anyone travelling non urgent have only themselves to blame. Weather,strikes,high terror alert and normal complete incompetency from whoever ‘runs’(😂) this godforsaken country. You’re insane to go out if you didn’t need to.

[@syncrosimon]

we were in the queue on the A9 at Dalwhinnie, we were fine as we had winter tyres on. Should make it mandatory in Scotland at least to have winter rated tyres between Nov and April like the rest of Europe.

[@aa-xg3ct]

Mandatory? I've had about 10 days of snow in ten years

[@georgebarnes8163]

There are only 8 countries in Europe where winter tyres are mandatory and they get a lot more snow than the UK ever did every year. Not needed in the UK due to the constant mild weather.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

I lived in Norway many years and it was from 1st October. Not mandatory as such though. I had an old/classic car I took out on sunny dry days in winter with summer/regular tyres. The problem comes if you have an accident in bad weather and have not put snow tyres on. I agree we probably don't need them in most of the UK but useful to have on standby in Scotland and parts of the north. It just means having a second set of wheels with winter tyres to quickly swap over. Or even just a pair, for the front if front wheel drive, or the rear if rear wheel drive. I did that for a car I had, when living in southern England. Front wheel drive with winter tyres. It handled really well on icy days. Their benefit is not just in severe conditions. In fact I left them on all year round. They just wear a little quicker and change the fuel economy a little (my car was very economical on fuel anyway)

[@georgebarnes8163]

or just carry a set of snow chains, that is what I do and have only had to use them once in the past 20 years@@MikePhillips-pl6ov

[@TerryUrquhart-v4w]

Exactly synchro……unfortunately many replying to your post don’t realise it’s not just for snow but when the temperatures are below 7 degrees winter tyres come into their own ….🤨🤨🥶🥶winter tyres ARE mandatory on my vehicles … just as common sense is essential ….( but not common)

[@comeonengland5312]

Everyone was battening down the hatches as them boys thought 💭 No it a perfect day for kite 🪁 surfing and surfing 🏄🏻‍♂️😁🤙🏻

[@rickkarsan4491]

Nice to actually see something white in GB

[@lucyjane1183]

😂true!

[@idonotwantahandle2]

Volumes of traffic on roads today mean everyone is reliant on the one who has the least traction and skill.

[@MontysKillerRabbit]

How is that relevant in snow, dummy....? Once the cars are immobile, they're immobile. You dummies.

[@McConnachy]

Its in Scotland, at this time of year (apart from the central belt) there isn't much traffic as we have a sparse population, in summer the roads fill with tourists

[@davidscott3292]

Yes, and these days we fit tyres that just spin in snow.

[@captainfrosty31]

Here in the Midlands, it's a beautiful sunny day which is fairly normal for December. Rains mostly in the summer in the UK. Would love some snow.

[@ivanskavinskiskavar6242]

We're doomed, doomed❗️

[@lucyjane1183]

🤣😂you have to say this in a Scottish accent.

[@ivanskavinskiskavar6242]

@@lucyjane1183 His Wiki bio is interesting. 👍🏻

[@QXZJX]

Oh no; bet it the "wrong type" of snow again😂

[@ZpaztiK_TaktikZ]

Like in summer we have the wrong type of rain to the point where water reservoirs are drying out 😂

[@McConnachy]

The snow in Scotland, is normal at this time of year

[@JoeBlowUK]

So basically... Surf's Up!

[@1000mrwayne]

It’s called winter in the United Kingdom😊

[@madmeister407]

Some people pay a fortune to go away on winter holidays but when it snows here, it's the end of the world

[@freetobeme6013]

It’s official, all water sports people are insane 😂😂

[@davidcarp5935]

LOL trapped in what? Not even deep. Just drive!

[@repairworld2367]

Miles of cars 😂😂😂 there's not that many cars in the Highlands to form a queue that long, unless they were going to the same party. But if it's in this Shun, it must be true.😮

[@robertmaloney2255]

Little bit of snow and the country comes to a standstill

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

The news is the problem.

[@psibug565]

This old chestnut. It’s a choice, the UK could spend billions on snow ploughs and extra grit for what even you call a little bit of snow. Other countries that have a lot more snow deal with it “better” because they have too. Even then as reported a couple of years ago some of our European neighbours also came to a standstill when one of these storms hit. Britain isn’t worse at this than others it just isn’t report as much when other countries have this problem.

[@guff9567]

If people are out kite surfing. The weather can't be bad at all

[@psibug565]

Kite surfing tends to work better in bad weather and those guys are nuts. Just watch the video of the Kite Surfer jumping over a pier on a stormy day.

[@guff9567]

@@psibug565 Wrong

[@cityblue0202]

I’m surprised the Sun hasn’t claimed that they are all electric cars

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

We had a bit of wind and rain in Englands north west and thats it..

[@mikewade777]

same in S Wales.

[@rick66649]

We live in a time where everything is a crisis 😢if its to hot or cold it's our fault they can pull a crisis out of thin air 😉

[@TerryUrquhart-v4w]

Climate “EMERGENCY’ if it’s a warm summer … “Winter Storms ‘ if it snows or the wind blows …! Money making scaremongerers ..

[@adriennewalker1715]

Betcha all those electric cars are performing woefully

[@hattmarvey1989]

Actually, they are very good on snow and ice (intelligent computer-controlled 4-wheel-drive). But the batteries hate the cold, and some won't work at all below -20degC, and they catch fire if they get wet.

[@suzannelacy8093]

My stupid stupid grandson almost drove me to a heart attack because of this idiotic daredevil stuff in Cornwall . I sat in my car crying .

[@deandeany911]

This is light compared to how theyve always had it. If you are 18 then this will look all kind of climate changing stuff. But this wouldnt have even made a small part on a page of a news paper years ago. This is a very mild winter. Especially here.

[@jack14kd]

Cant this global warmin scam hurry up so we have 30 degrees all yr round

[@Enid_senclair]

My guy nearly blew away 😂

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

2:50 🎤 “We now go to our News Correspondent on the ground”🧍🏻‍♂️

[@rsosamarcelo]

By now I’m guessing whoever spots the storm first gets to have it named after themselves lol

[@kevster6244]

I wonder how many of these drivers, who expect this weather, use winter tyres.

[@timhull8664]

I drove from essex to the northwest.. it rained a bit.. that was it.. no havoc

[@briankelly5816]

Does none of these people stuck in the snow watch the weather especially at this time of year?!! And if they do WHY DONT THEY STAY AT HOME INSTEAD OF GOING ON TELE DOING A PRINCE HARRY "WHAAAAAAAA"!! IM STUCK!! NO #%IT SHERLOCK!

[@hmq9052]

Where are these people going? Just stay at home and get gently squiffy on Bailey's until next week. This isn't difficult stuff. Stop busying yourselves going to see people who probably wish you hadn't bothered anyway

[@karelester]

...... exactly! Idiots for venturing out into it. What do they expect!!

[@ianharley1726]

Unfuckingbelievable! Scotland-winter-snow. 😮

[@alanjackson4646]

0:59 supplies still get through, thank you HGV drivers.Why is every weather change now a “Storm” ?

[@stevenhull5025]

Across Britain??? More like a small area in some remote part of Scotland. As usual the media blowing reality out of all proportions.

[@nammak5412]

incorrect reporting. .. NOT ACROSS BRITAIN

[@Enid_senclair]

Lol preston never sees snow everywhere, just come here you'll be fine 😂😅

[@exsubmariner]

High winds and rain no storm meteorologist should stop crying wolf the story never has a good ending stop scaremongering the public aren't as thick as your editor

[@StephenStocks-e1e]

You build houses on flood plains what do you expect and drainage ditches not cleared

[@blackadder06-eb5qh]

I’ve driven far worse roads than this in Montana. This is not something to panic about. As long as you have the right tires, enough weight in the boot to give you decent traction and an awesome skill set you should be good to go. It’s not hard, you just drive the road and adapt.

[@psibug565]

That’s the real problem, we just don’t need any of that stuff 99% of the year. So most will not have the gear in their car to deal with it. If you don’t have that sort of gear in your motor in a Montana Winter you’d be an idiot. You could load your car up with all the gear every winter and not use it for five years straight in the UK.

[@elizabethstockdale2784]

It’s often snowy in Scotland ! My Dad and family always carried ropes, spade etc in winter in England …. Let alone Scotland .. be prepared, it’s likely to snow or rain hard !

[@mikewade777]

Not really, but it would be nice, as it hasn't snowed hard over the UK in 30 years. That's when it used to be 'often' when a white Christmas was the norm. @@elizabethstockdale2784

[@B-A-L]

Oh don't worry, it'll all be gone by the new year!

[@HeartLopez-gh9xi]

Keep safe

[@NotJanine777]

Isn’t this just called winter…? 🤔

[@georgebarnes8163]

What storm ? I seem to have missed this major event

[@aleccap5946]

No one old enough to remember the 1970's 😂 these children stories of bad weather has to stop. Winter, and as weird as some might think this weather is. This is only a smuttering of snow in winter that use to snow for weeks on end not a few days FFS grow up

[@mikewade777]

60s 70s 80s, proper white Christmas.

[@lisajames2510]

Come on they have to be save on the road because is iced and plus is now winter and is cold 1:38

[@carlasmith5781]

Everyone need to keep safe places

[@FITSOZOLIFE]

Geoengineering storms since 1950’s✈️✈️✈️✈️

[@andrew30m]

Next you’ll be complaining about chemtrails, then HARPP weapons, Jewish space lasers,😜😜

[@FITSOZOLIFE]

😳 don’t k ow what you mean! Stratospheric aresol injections you say😷✈️🤦. Lots of 77 on here! Stay home- be afraid- the storm is so intense. Seamless transition from 😷💉Ukraine- $£€ to Hamas- to climate. I bet the masses run out of emoji’s soon for facepalm

[@nicolasmith1460]

God bless you all 🙏

[@numbnutz7832]

That debbi burd, is a bit emotional in the comment section. Jeez a splitarse with an ill informed opinion. Lived up and down the country, in sixteen places no less. ITC Catherine 1978/ 9. Snow was quite deep. It’s called the WEATHER. Mother Nature. Control by fear sheeps😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@volpeverde6441]

Gerrit....Gorrit....Good....

[@strakermidwich9679]

Imagine being trapped in 2 inches of snow lmao. Jesus wept!!!!!! lol

[@tatiescone]

Honestly, how pathetic is this. You would think we're a tropical island the way people react to a small scattering of snow. As for local authorities not gritting roads when they know the snows coming..... I want my council tax back, you lot couldn't run the length of yourselfs never mind a council.

[@stephenwatkins675]

It did rain quite heavily here yesterday in Knutsford, Cheshire for an hour or so……our empty wheelie bin was in danger of blowing over. Why is everything such a drama nowadays?

[@susanmiller6023]

In Ilford, Essex we've had winds, I don't want snow because my crutches or wheelchair don't work with snow and my private landlord never put heating in so I am housebound in a freezer.

[@pixiebell2766]

Take care. I live in Ilford too.

[@breakablehandlewithcare]

that , is reality !!! wish you well inspite of the trying circumstances.❤

[@iangillon6981]

Good job not all EV`S

[@jamesjukebox2386]

Highest parts of UK and idiots out in minis with no snow tyres or chains and moaning, laughable.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Why not try owning a car that is capable in all weather and road conditions ? Get yourself to a Subaru dealer.

[@robert_kotula]

I see more incompetent people get on the road. That’s very little snow and they should be able to drive right through it

[@commonsense3222]

panic panic Scotland getting snow Mainstream media need to sort its self out its a normal yearly occurrence

[@undeadmaster666]

so scotlands having a bad day of it... i can live with that. for me i look outside and its a tiny bit windy.

[@johnnylatham9738]

Geoengineering err Climate Change....Dont look up 😅

[@aaronjackson3217]

😂😂 what a load of rubbish, literally not 1 drop of snow and not cold enough at all

[@stoicsceptic8420]

Your climate grifts are becoming embarrassing now .

[@barrystubbs983]

chaos? Miles of cars ? just a tad overdramatic me thinks

[@dinkdankdoo3035]

Dying laughing

[@Radomirius]

5 cm high snow and UK paralized 😂😂😂

[@Michael.OJackson]

Snow in Scotland in the winter, next they'll tell us water is wet

[@ciaranbyrne62]

Let half the air out of the tyres and keep on driving 😊

[@Emsie76]

Looks nice… apart from the fallen tree.