[PRCo] A major snow hits London

[Fred Schneider]

We love to pick on Washington DC because it collapses every time they see a snow flake.    I went there for Alan Schneider's retirement dinner on the first Monday in Friday the 5th of February.     Three days before, London got it.   The fine people in London are used to snow just about as much as those in Washington.   Take a look at this video taken on Tuesday February 2nd.   Looks like they got about an inch or maybe less.

It begins with an announcement of all the Underground workings that have been suspended or delayed.   Note that the Circle Line, which is almost totally under roof, was completely shut down.   My hunch is that they simply could not get trainmen to staff it.   

This was the same winter that shut down the channel tunnel service because snow blew through the screens into the electrical equipment ... I guess we forgot how the Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 fleet was decimated in the storm of February 1958.   But it this case, the brand new steam locomotive, the A1 Tornado actually came to the rescue and got people home!   (Shame there isn't an arrow among the special characters for what goes around, comes around.)   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebo-8kz-uDs&feature=related