TODAY IS CANCELLED! by Colin Adamso

TODAY IS CANCELLED!

by Colin Adamson and Patrick McGowan
BLINDING BLIZZARDS brought London to a virtual standstill today and British Rail told 700,000 commuters: 'Forget it. There's no way we can get you to work'
As Arctic conditions spread eastwards from snowbound Essex and Kent into Sussex and Surrey, rail chiefs extended their 'stay at home' plea to the whole of the Southern and Eastern regions.
The chilling admission of defeat was the greatest threat so far to commerce and industry in the capital. Weather men warned there could be worse to come.
The nightmare was no better on the roads. Millions of commuters forced to take to their cars faced the worst conditions since the big freeze began.
Heavy overnight snowfalls, driven into huge drifts by fierce winds, brought chaos to every major route into London and reduced traffic to a crawl.
Even in the heart of London, where snow rarely settles, the heavy falls gave roads the appearance of isolated country lanes.
South of the Thames, only one bus in ten was running on some routes. Others had no more than a one-in-five service.
North of the river, only half the usual number of buses were running. They were caught up in huge traffic jams in many areas.
The Jubilee and Victoria Underground lines were the only ones with anything like a normal service. All the others ran into trouble as soon as lines came up onto the surface.
The rail capitulation reached its lowest point at 6 am with the total closure of Waterloo Station, caused by major drifts.
As thousands of freezing commuters were left stranded on empty platforms and trapped in dozens of London-bound trains, British Rail said: 'That's it. We can no longer guarantee any sort of service. The weather has beaten us.'
Only a tiny number of trains were still attempting to move across the Eastern and Southern Regions.
An Eastern Region spokesman said: 'If people have any sense at all they will stay indoors and forget trying to make it to work.
Those who do make the effort should be under no illusions that they will get there. Even if by some miracle they do, it will be a rotten journey. The service everywhere is awful.'
IN BRIEF
MOTORISTS stranded in snow and traffic yesterday were overtaken by a man on a pair of skis on the All in Essex.
HOVE's swimming pool complex, which is kept at a steamy 80 degrees F, is to open its doors free to pensioners today so they can keep warm.
A FIRE crew was called in to help dig out five ambulances snowed in at Chelmsford Ambulance Station in Essex overnight.
A POLICEMAN who went to pull a stricken schoolboy from a frozen lake in Dagenham had to be rescued himself... when he fell in.
In LINCOLNSHIRE, an outdoor skating championship at Baston Fen, near Spalding, was cancelled because there was too much snow on the ice.
At LONDON ZOO, lion keepers kept the animals indoors to prevent them escaping when the moats surrounding their enclosures froze. Elephants were given warm baths to stave off hypothermia.
In BLYTH, Northumberland, the snow trapped burglars who had raided a supermarket. Their footprints led police to their hideout.
In SWITZERLAND, the village of La Brevine recorded a record low temperature for the country of -41.8°C. The village lies on an exposed plain known as the Siberia of Switzerland, more than 3,000 ft above sea level near the French border.
Parts of NORWAY were colder than the North Pole yesterday. The Norwegian ice skating championships at Hamar were cancelled because officials considered temperatures of - 30° C too dangerous to the contestants. Doctors there warned people against taking hot drinks immediately after coming in from the extreme cold, to avoid cracking tooth enamel.

Результаты (Клингонский (pIqaD)) 1:

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