I have heard a rumour that anyone interested in archives has reason to be grateful for all this weather.
Salt mines make the perfect clean dry space for storage, but even in this allegedly paperless age we carry on producing stuff that needs to be saved faster than the world needs us to dig out the salt & liberate the space.
So by demanding that roads be gritted to allow us to indulge our addiction to driving about, we speed up the rate at which more storage space can be provided.
