Gemma, you wouldn't wishg to pay the City taxes we have to cough up to pay for all the snow clearance equipment, you are wiser to just put up with the nuisance every few years, we get it every year. Like 1947 in west Yorkshire when we - within the City of Bradford, were snowed in for 7 weeks. Everything, food, milk, coal-which like bread and potatoes was rationed by the Attlee government - those were the days of "Austerity Cripps", Hugh Dalton and Dr. Edith Summerskill who declared that "Fish and Chips is a complete and nourishing meal." had to be carried by hand. In the spring when all the stuff melted, dead sheep lay in hundreds along the riverside in Wharfedale and the place stank. I refer to Wharfedale, not Westminster