Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
We didn't get the power cuts it was suggested we might get, after all ...

I think mine was one of the last places in the UK to see some snow. Started falling around 11pm, my time .. lasted for around 6 hours. No great problem, in my locality, as it turned out, though there were reports of a road in the Devon / Cornwall area that had five miles of traffic on it that couldn't move, the hapless drivers being stuck for most if not all of the night with their vehicles.

Big disruptions to public transport continuing ... many schools closed ... because we're incapable, apparently, of coping with a ten centimetre snowfall ..... and by our standards, 'very cold' weather, hovering around (just above) freezing point.

The coldest parts of the UK would've seen temperatures plunge to around -16 centigrade (PLUS 3 degrees F). It was the UK's coldest night for seven years.
Well that's one thing about living up nort' here in Wisconsin, we are totally prepared for winter, we're used to it, even huge snow falls and bitter cold weather. We're a pretty hardy bunch. Keeps out the riff raff too. There's no way we're going to have tent cities and bums living on the streets up here, it's too cold for that. You're outside when it gets cold around here, you DIE. So bitter cold does have it's unintended benefits.