For those of us who grew up in snow, it's not a groundbreaking amount, but it's enough to cause a pain to the transport systems in London which means I am working from home today. 
There is something really fulfilling about working in your sweats from your couch. Mmmm.
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Don't you guys have like this amazing public transportation system that would make staying at home for the snow seem kind of, uh, silly?
I'm just sayin'...
Snow is extra great when you don't have to deal with it... drive / go to work in it. :)
Are you telling me it snows underground? Because why on earth would the Tube not be working just because of some snow? LAME!
To clarify, London transport was up and functional today and I probably could have gotten into work. But Tubes go above ground in and frozen tracks do cause delays.
Besides, why would you ride the Tube if you didn't have to?
ah yes while the lack of any semblance of "mass" transit in Seattle has me sentimental for the Tube, it is good to remember that someone somewhere sometime in the dim and distant past clearly defined a scope of work for the London Underground that dictated that optimal running conditions would encompass temperature range 10C - 25C; fine weather but not sunny, rain showers but not a downpour, between the months of April and June. Anything colder and the exposed tracks would freeze; anything warmer and they'd expand too much (and god help the passengers stuck in a tunnel when it was above 30C outside); too many fallen leaves on the line would spell disaster; too much sun glinting off the small lengths of exposed tracks could cause the train drivers to go blind. Not that the London Underground is temperamental or anything - it just knows what it likes :)
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