Arny Krueger:

They haven't plowed the streets?

Or is London like Atlanta, where deep snow is so rare that
they don't even have any plows to send out?

It's a 20yr weather event, says the weather ppl. London's
big enough to create its own warm dry microclimate, maybe,
but anyway, cold wet weather usually pushes in from the
North West, and mostly doesn't get as far as the South East.
Boris the Mayor said there's no point in being constantly
equipped, which seems quite sensible.

Here in the North, we haven't had worse than usual.
Bradford's buses were mostly operational. Hence more of our
taxes
are spent on maintaining a fleet of gritters and ploughs.

I don't suffer from traffic noise. My problem is screaming
Slovaks, and it doesn't sound like snow offers any
attenuation.

Ian