This Just In: Brits are Winter Wimps

Look at all that snow! He needs to clean it up with a broom! When I saw this headline "Snow could cost UK economy £1 billion: experts" I thought "whoa, must have been a big storm".

Uhhh no...

The 10 centimetres (four inches) of snow which coated London, Europe's financial capital, Monday virtually shut down air, rail and road links, forcing thousands of workers to stay at home in the worst storms in 18 years.

10 cm! I think basically every part of North America outside of the deep deep US south gets 10 cms at least once a winter. 10 cm is barely even worth coming out for. I don't even shovel 10 cm of snow, I just let the chinook get to it. 10 cm of snow can happen in June (or September). It even seems that some of the Brits are embarrassed at the UK's complete lack of snow knowledge.

David Frost, director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said images of snowbound Britain were embarrassing abroad. "All the European channels were showing images of London at a complete standstill, which was not a very positive image for the UK," he told BBC radio.

London's mayor explained that NO ONE, could be INSANE enough to drive around with 10 cm of snow on the ground.

(London mayor) Johnson blamed the "wrong quantity of snow" for the problems and told BBC radio that "unleashing a 12-tonne bus on to heavily packed snow or ice" would risk "turning it into a lethal weapon".

I'm not sure what the "wrong quantity of snow is" but it seems fairly obvious that you can indeed drive a vehicle on a surface other than concrete. Kind of reminds me of my critique of the antiquated British rail system back in 2001 where trains ran late due to "Sun on the tracks, rain on the tracks, leaves on the tracks, poor rail conditions and the wrong type of electricity. And indeed, in that article I noted:

My English co-workers told me that if it ever snows, stay in bed.

Besides, who (or what) could have predicted such a harsh winter... oh I know... sunspots!