[PRCo] Re: A major snow hits London

[Fred Schneider]

Please remove my foot from mouth.   Slow moving.  Took 362 days to circle the globe!   

On May 2, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

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