Almost every year, there is a story like this one.
It's a bit like those stories that this or that gives you cancer/cures cancer. Newspapers have pages to fill.
I put my thermals, put my hat on, and get on with it. Got an immersion heater and a bag of rock salt for my older customers.
Only been going 9 years mind, just a boy compared to some on here.
As that wise man said earlier, you do what you can, when you can.
I check the forecast but never trust it beyond a day or two cos it always changes.