5 january 2010 the city snows down

Tuesday 5th January 2010

At the window of greens last night, we first saw the snow fall; by this morning it was a foot. School was closed – as we discovered on the radio, as our internet was out. My other half, well used to this for months on end, was astounded that anything a snow plough could sail through could grind the city to a halt. There’s hundreds of millions in lost productivity to be measured against a day’s snowballing with the kids, left-handed for me, as my right’s still bandaged up. Staying at home was definitely established today as an acceptable norm, and tomorrow will be worse, with school again shut. With cause though I think, the whole place will be an ice rink, and given that we’re just not set up to cope, I’m sure the months lost from broken legs etc would at least balance out these enforced days off.