London Snow

[eldar]

Well, with apologies to Charles Stross, but here I am on the other side of the Atlantic, sniggering away.

Having lived through snowy days in London where the place did shut down (and having got stuck in my car for 4 hours on one particularly memorable occasion), and now having lived through snowy days in New York that are worse than anything I've seen in London and seen business continue pretty much as usual, it does amuse me how easily England comes to a standstill at the first sign of a snowflake. You'd think that local authorities and those responsible for responding to snow and other weather-based emergencies haven't trusted weather forecasters since October 1987.

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[theoriginaltugs.livejournal.com]

The infrastructure to deal with snow just isn't there though. In the US, they have snowploughs and are fully expecting to have to deal with it day in, day out. In the UK if you buy a snowplough there will be years when it just sits in the depot doing nothing - not exactly a good return on investment is it?