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Winter wonderland or woe?

Travel chaos has ensued, the M25 is closed in many places and many
schools throughout the country have been closed.

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On Monday February 2nd 2009 the problem. This means that many
South East of England was hit by schools across the country have
snow. I know this is not unusual been closed.
in many parts of the world, but it
was interesting to watch the whole
region grind to a virtual standstill.
At the time of writing this article
the major London airports of
Heathrow, Gatwick and London
City were all closed. Stansted
airport had been closed but has
just had one runway reopened.

School closures
The dramatic change in the
weather has meant that a number
of areas are experiencing transport

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County Closed
South East
Essex 250+
Hertfordshire 100+
Middlesex 80+
Sussex 50+
North
Greater 100
Manchester
Lancashire 70
Cumbria 34
Durham 70
Northumberland 33
Yorkshire 1
This table shows This gave the
the number of children lots time
schools reported to play in the snow,
closed. It is snowballing,
interesting to note making snowmen
that although the and snow angels.
snow is no heavier The snow gave an
in the South East added dimension,
of England, one of producing some
the eastern very picturesque
counties has scenes, many
reported more than captured on
250 of its schools camera.
are closed.

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Temperature advice about

recorded at one preparing for lots of
weather station in snow. This advice
Ross-on-Wye and more details
during the week can be found in
read. The United community centres
States government or on their website
offered lots of at

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government did not environm
offer similar advice entally
to its citizens. The safe
advice from the products
United States is to to melt
prepare for a winter ice on
storm by doing the walkways
following: .

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