[PRCo] Re: A major snow hits London

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The snow in London was in 2009, according to the information provided. 

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Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:30 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] A major snow hits London

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