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WEATHER TROUBLES * UK - London crawling: Snow shuts down British capital
London,UK -Associated Press, by Gregory Katz -Feb 2, 2009: -- It was hardly a blizzard, but it still shut down the city that beat the Blitz... The biggest snowfall to hit London in 18 years idled the city's trademark red buses and Underground trains Monday, stranded thousands of airline passengers, and raised the vexing question of why a predicted winter storm caught authorities so unprepared... Transit officials had nearly a week to get ready, but they failed to keep things running normally in the capital, which was buried under more than four inches of snow overnight and another four inches in the afternoon... Londoners who needed to get somewhere often found they couldn't — unless they were willing to walk for miles... (SEE VIDEO)
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