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Yes, yes - you East Coast Americans and especially you Canadians will be looking at our pathetic couple of inches of snow and making noises of derision, but to us it's SNOW!

And of course, predictably, the entire country has ground to a halt. Trains aren't running, airports are closed, schools ditto, buses cancelled, motorways empty and side roads "impassable."(says the BBC)

Impassable? Did we have ten feet overnight and I didn't notice? Because we had less than a centimetre here!

OK I take it back - seem like other areas have more than here, but still - that's not DEEP!! That's actually embarrassing. "look world, we've had an inch of snow!"

Most unfair. However - I must say, they knew it was coming - they always knew it is coming, and yet the country always grinds to a halt!