CNN: Snow delays, dazzles Londoners

[Bud]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02 ... index.html

Hey scielle - How's it going with the snow?

[Coda]

Pretty pictures. So this is the heaviest snow that London has got in 18 years?

[gundy516]

Pretty pictures . As I sit here looking out on a foot of snow 'still' on our lawn from the over 6 feet we had in Dec/January this amount looks like what we would have called a 'skiff' of snow!

We are waiting for Spring!

[scielle]

This was really quite amusing for an expat Canadian!
London made a farce out of itself - a few inches of snow and everything ground to a halt. Half of my office didn't make it in to work - those of us who did had a nice snowball fight out in Berkeley Square park outside our office. I had some nice swipes at my boss. Nothing like a bunch of bankers playing in the snow.
Really though, the way the city shut down for the day was ridiculous - if this happened in Canada the country would be closed for 5 months out of the year!

[Coda]

Scielle, I hear ya. Here in the Detroit area (across the river from Windsor, Ontario), schools and businesses still keep running even with 6 or more inches of snow. When I went to a public university in Detroit, the school kept running despite 14 inches of snow.