Let it snow!
All of those Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” adaptations I watched growing up as a child led me to believe that every year the city of London was covered in a fresh blanket of snow. I can tell you that generally that’s a terrible, terrible lie.
However, starting late Sunday night the snow started to fall and it kept on falling well into Monday. At first it was just enough snow to make it stick to the ground, then it started piling up. Pretty soon, it was the “worst snowstorm in 18 years“.
As a Canadian, it was pretty funny to watch the city grind to a halt after the first few inches of snow formed on the ground. All bus services suspended, the same for overland trains and most of the Underground was disabled as well. The city was eerily quiet, not just from the lack of people but also the dampening effect of all this white stuff.
To be fair to the English, they just haven’t got the infrastructure in place to deal with this sort of snow fall. I saw one sand/salt truck out on my walk into the office and many different implements used for shoveling snow from brooms and dustpans to sheets of wood and anything flat and sturdy enough to scoop it away.
Work was more or less cancelled but I decided to walk into the office anyways and take a few photos along the way. It felt a bit like being back home, only not quite so cold. It was a really cool day, and I had a pretty happy grin on my face for most of it. That being said, I’m pretty happy that it’s all melting under the bright, sunny sky today.
I don’t think anybody should have to suffer more than a day or two of winter after all.
Photos from the rest of my journey into the office are here.