Not content with a whole week of skiing, we somehow managed to bring the snow with us back to London. It started falling – lightly at first, and then getting heavier – around 6 PM last night. By around 8 PM, there was quite a decent coating on the ground, which looked rather atmospheric under the eerie yellow street lights.
Seemingly it must have snowed almost continuously overnight, as by the morning, everything was well covered. We even had to cancel our barbeque breakfast on the patio!
London is not in the least bit equipped to deal with such a downfall; all the airports were closed, and all public transport (save for the underground lines that are entirely underground) was completely suspended.
Our work is well equipped to deal with such a scenario – I simply stayed at home and dialed in, instead. Now that’s all well and good, except that the other members of our household got to have a play for snow-day!
To top it all off, apparently there’s even more snow to come tomorrow and Wednesday!
More photos online in the Snowy London album.
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Waterloo and City Line was closed this morning around 8am – and it’s completely underground!
Good to see London is colder and snowier than Scotland for a change! What a debarcle though, Englandshire came to almost a complete grinding halt because of it. Upgrade the infrastructure, I say!
The snow paid off for me, I got stuck in London so I had a detour to a friends house for the night!
Sushi for dinner!
Nice pics! I loved the snow, yet was disappointed that my three modes of transport (tube + train + taxi) still got me to work (only half an hour later than normal!)…