Laughable!!

4cm of snow falls and England collapses under the strain!
No terrorists, no war, no fallout. Just snow.
England is a mockery and making itself a laughing stock. We lack education. We need to train our drivers to cope in the snow.
When I was a kid at school, there was in 1983 a deep snow fall in Coventry, perhaps 1 metre of snow. It was banked high along the roads and lasted for days. We went to school. Teachers drove into school. Life went on as best it could in the circumstances.
Nowadays its health & safety policy to close schools, in case kids slip on snow or get hurt by a snowball, or even worse if a teacher slips or gets hit by a snowball, (HASWA!!) so, no its best to close the schools, preventing parents from going to work, cancelling appointments, meetings (what if a mother is a top doctor about to do an operation planned for months and then the school closes and she cannot get child care etc for the time she is at work, and she was willing to battle through the elements to reach the hospital so the patient could have the long awaited operation).
It is complete nonsense.
Businesses suffer and traffic snarls to a halt because someone skidded and got stuck, but those around the poor driver dont offer to help because they are all cocooned in their own warm tin can listening to the traffic reports and wishing they could just get on, so they sit their honking their horns or calling for all of the emergency services to help a poor fellow stuck in the snow, when they could simply step out and assist.
we don't know how to carry spades and shuffles, extra clothing and flasks. We don;t want to help our neighbours.
No wonder this country is grinding slowly into its own grave!!