We don’t get ‘proper’ snow very often here (gulf stream, island salt air etc), so it was a surprise to wake up to about 3-4 inches on the ground this morning. Unsurprisingly, our completely unprepared community has ground to a complete halt, in conditions any Russian or Canadian would find laughable.
It doesn’t stop me from going to work of course, or my wife who also only has a short walk to work. Our environmentally friendly lifestyle clearly doesn’t pay dividends in this particular instance.
I’m also now finding that my internet speeds are in post-school molasses mode, I guess because so many people are either home working or just killing time on the net today. So snow clearly clogs up the intertubes too 
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
yeah Lionhead closed it’s doors today – kind of glad because on the 20 mile route to work they were reporting 19 mile tailbacks. This country sucks at snow, it really does!
First snow day I can ever remember though. Wahoo! Blog catching up time
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Hehe. New England also laughs at that puny display of white stuff. A blizzard here means you go 70 mph instead of 90 on the highway.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 am
I live in the Washington, DC area and we are the same way. We can and are paralyzed by as little as 2 inches of snow. Sometimes just the threat of snow cancels schools.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 am
That used to happen when I lived in Baltimore. We’d get like 3 inches of snow and the city would stop functioning. It’s understandable though because they don’t have the plowing infrastructure like northern areas do (I’m from Massachusetts). My side street in Baltimore was never plowed at all for the 2 years I lived there. They just waited for the snow to melt, which took at most a few days.