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I just noticed foot prints outside one of my large windows. It’s private lawn, no business for anybody to hang around that windwow. No animal prints that would indicate someone was after their dog.
I got a peeper? A very stupid one, obviously .
Things winter reveals …
Hey, we get more of it! Plus a nasty wind has set in blowing the existing snow onto other places. But the horses are out there and they don’t seem bothered at all. In fact they seem to be grazing … like us eating straight from the fridge?
That’s the very definition of a warning. It may or may not happen, but there are much higher changes of happening compared to other days. AFAIK, we still cannot see the future.
Everyone should ask themselves, what is so important that it’s worth the risk of being caught far from home by 20cm of snow? Trains deal with this more or less well. The rest of vehicles, not at all.
Maybe I’m the weird one with family origins in subsistence farming where the weather tells you what is possible or not to do any given day. I went to school and work from home, anyway I’m still sensible to weather 
Maybe also influenced by hiking and riding the bike, no one is gonna save my ass if I get in trouble in the middle of nowhere. And if there’s a rescue party, the chances of they arriving too late are higher than zero, so why bet with the weather?
Hmmmm, that was a long speach 
“we still cannot see the future.” my thought entirely. That is why I just wait until the future is now.
“Everyone should ask themselves, what is so important that it’s worth the risk of being caught far from home by 20cm of snow? ” who says I was anywhere else but home? And if, I would not have expected anyone to come and “rescue” me.
On the other hand you must realize that most of these people stuck somewhere were on their way to or from work and in Switzerland we don’t stay home due to snow. As a child we might have “Hitzeferien” once in a life-time but definitely no “Schneeferien”.
And as to “trains deal with this more or less well. The rest of vehicles, not at all.” definitely not. Trains didn’t run or didn’t stop, busses and trams didn’t run and/or went off the roads. So much for ‘do use public transport advice’, seriously embarrassing for a country like Switzerland.
A friend of mine had to go pick up wife and daughter - who were in two different places - with the car because both couldn’t get home by public transport.
I can’t believe what wimps we’ve become here.
I’m really glad there are a few left who took it for what it was: winter. Getting sledges and skis out in the middle of cities, building snow-men during traffic jam and having snowball fights on unploughed residental roads.
Carpe diem - and as you said, it was not totally unexpected.
It’s not about being a wimp or not. Driving is basically a social activity that requires the contribution of every driver to a nice synchronized choreography.
I can have the most capable 4x4 ready with snow tires, chains and a winch…and I still cannot do anything about this:
in Switzerland we don’t stay home due to snow
Life has changed. In the past people walked to work, children to school, etc. These days people commute from one canton to other. “Switzerland don’t stay home due to snow” may not apply these days.
No we didn’t. Not even 40 years ago. 
I lived in the mountains for three years as a kid with loads of snow for months and months and not once there was an accident with a “Postauto” (bus line run by the post) involved.
The truck on your picture is from Lithuania. Are they renown for first class trucks in good shape and well educated drivers?
But you obviously have a point: Life has changedk and 16cm snow is incredibly dangerous now. if we didn’t know yet, we learnt it last night.
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That might have been long ago in the past and if you’re a farmer it’s probably still valid. 
Luckily we don’t have to stay at home, not even when it snows. Yesterday there were a lot of delays and the trains were more crowded than usual but we could still move and mind our business. Personally I don’t like to drive on this weather.
Back when I was a child we had a few winters (read every 2-3 years) when the snow was so heavy that the schools were closed for a few days. It was a bliss, as we were still playing outside, building fortresses and “igloos” lol. The heavy snowing it’s not so well dealt with in other countries, compared to Switzerland, but compared to say Italy who has panic attacks for a 20 cm snow, yeah, I think we do well.
Don’t forget England where the only people that have winter tyres are those that drive to Switzerland to ski.
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Warning! A1 Mühleberg towards Bern the inner lane is covered in frozen snow/ice and is very dangerous. Traffic is moving to the outside lane to avoid it.
Here’s something I posted elsewhere yesetrday afternoon, just C&P cos I cba to rewrite it:
A couple of hours ago we watched an Audi ahead of us in the village slam on his brakes approaching a stop-signed intersection and slide all the way into the intersection, almost T-boning a car that had the ROW. Sigh. The worst drivers we see around here are unfortunately from CH.
20-30 Kph in the residential areas was totally justifiable and the correct way to do it. You have to stop all the time, pedestrians, intersections, curbs.
Doing 20-30 in the cleared roads connecting villages was totally unnecessary and what I had a problem with. Nobody said going 100 or even 80, and yes that would be insanity, cluelessness, and gross negligence if I may add to the list.
I actually left as late as possible to not deal with the traffic. But with everyone stuck didn’t really make a difference.
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Föhn, 15C and sunny today. Snow melting fast.
The melting snow has produced plenty of black ice on roads and paths which are shielded from the sun, for example in forests.
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Snow? What snow? Warmed up yesterday and rained late evening/overnight and snow’s pretty much all disappeared apart from a few stacks of it here and there.
This is beginning to feel like Deja Vu all over again. Didn’t this happen last year?
It’s been happening for centuries. I thought if anyone knew, it was you.
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What? Did someone make an off-topic reply? Must be my hearing…
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This winter seems particularly shitty. Or have I forgotten the last winters?
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