Eye of the storm
It was once infamously said of British Rail that they had been caught out by the wrong type of snow.
(They were on standby for wet stuff. The soft, fluffy variety left them -and their ploughs - stumped.)
Now Scotland's transport minister, Stewart Stevenson, has landed in trouble as a result of the wrong type of weather forecast.
Apparently, the Scottish government had "prepared for one set of weather".
Along came 10cm of snow or therabouts. Result? A mass involuntary roadside sleep-over.
Just what, one wonders, are they expecting now? Light, airy clouds and unseasonable warmth? Look out the hurricane boards immediately.
To be fair, Mr Stevenson has apologised.
To be fair further, the weather has been exceptionally hideous.
But, as he has now learned, folk who have spent a night in their cars or have seen schools open only to close shortly thereafter or have struggled for hours to get nowhere are less than inclined to be generous in their sentiments.
They have to blame someone and, right now, the transport minister is in the eye of a storm (which, presumably, his forecasters did not see coming.)
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