yes, I must admit, I wondered how deep the snow had fallen in the London Underground, 300 ft below the surface... or why people had not the foresight to park the trains inside the tunnels the night before and just run a shuttle service in the bits (90%) which can't be reached by the snow at all. It seemed inconceivable that the Underground would grind to a halt.
Far more likely that people just saw the snow and preferred to roll over in bed and go back to sleep.
Its not just Britain, Seattle ground to a stop a month ago because of a little snow... Anchorage can have blizzards, -30C tempertatures and enough water over ice for my boyfriend's brother to drive a truck into a pole (at the airport, he was going 5mph and still couldn't stop but planes took off and landed like nothing was happening) and still function fine. Now if this volcano ever blows, it might be a different matter.
I guess some places are just more used to it than others. If Anchorage stopped every time there was bad weather, there would be about three work days a year.
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Far more likely that people just saw the snow and preferred to roll over in bed and go back to sleep.
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I guess some places are just more used to it than others. If Anchorage stopped every time there was bad weather, there would be about three work days a year.
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