One day of snow and everything grinds to a halt in London and once again the media is out on a witch hunt to find out who is responsible for allowing the city to grind to a halt.

I have been to New York where 15 inch's of snow is quite natural. I have also been to  Vancouver in Canada  where I experienced 7 meters of snow! In New York everything continued as normal. In Canada (understandably) everything ground to a halt briefly before the snow ploughs could make their way through to all the small roads then as in New York everything went back to normal. The difference between the UK compared to the US and Canada is that in these countries this is a regular occurrence in the UK it isn't. That's the reason everything grinds to a halt in the UK when it snows, we are just not used to it. There is almost no reason for the UK to have the heavy duty snow gear we see in these countries as it would probably only be used once every 10 years. Its no ones fault that it snowed heavily and that the London buses didn't operate today or that the already gritted roads needed gritting again because of the heavy snow. There seems to be a constant habit of blaming someone for everything, its kind of how people start suing each other for the smallest of things. Lets just say it was some bad weather and leave it at that? No matter who you blame the snow is still going to fall isn't it?