Driving down I-5 in Oregon listening to Capital Gold from Leicester Sq on the radio. There's an app for that. It is snowing in London.

I can't wait to see the pics of the snow in England.

By the sounds of it London will be shut tomorrow.

Fixed it for ya.

Thanks, but that's no different from any other day.

Just couldn't resist it.

It always amazes me that the UK seems to shut down when it snows. Nobody seems to be able to cope with it. Even though it is forecast for days before they never seem to be prepared. When it snowed at the start of the year I actually got sent home from work as they didn't want people getting stuck in the snow. As it turned out the roads were clear and I got home quicker than I usually did. A few days later when it was a bit more snowy we all had to do our own 'risk assessments' and decide if we wanted to go into the office. I called and said the end of the alleyway my garage was in, was blocked so I couldn't get my car out. It was blocked but by someone's car as they skidded on a bit of ice and just left their car where they came to a stop. It was gone half an hour later. Apparently 5 people made it into the office that day. 5 out of 120! My sons school was shut at 10am so I would have been called home anyway to look after him.

3G streaming over t'interweb, or just a snippit from a foreign correspondent on local radio?

Got a e-xmas card from my uni, of the campus covered in snow...then asking for donations as they know it's the end of the US tax year and what we'd like to see the donation go towards.

Okay, the begging was in a separate letter.

It's 8F out and there's still no snow here though, all the previous stuff has melted.

It amazes me how crap they are at dealing with it.

But it's like that in some parts of the US also. A few inches where they never get it (No pun intended) and they fall about flapping.

Yet they grit like mad all the time, for ice, I don't see what the big deal is!

Local councils here is the UK have stocks of grit and salt to last a whole 6 days of frosty weather

Nahh, they grit quite often in Leeds when there's a chance of ice, but as soon as it snows they can't cope.

They can't cope here in Atlanta either. To be fair to both, it doesn't snow that often in the south of England or Georgia so it doesn't seem worth spending loads of money on snow clearing equipment like they do in other places.

Same here....but a snow storm is forecast for tomorrow and it's heading north along the coast. Hope my rellies plane gets out of Newark tomorrow night...they fly from Manchester Sunday morning.

In general the authorities in Britain are well prepared for any weather eventuality .. it's only when it is the wrong type of snow that they can't cope.