Very sensible reply there. Let's face it, with the way winters have been in the last 20 years, it frankly does not make economic sense covering the continual enormous expense of maintaining and storing a massive fleet of various snow removal equipment and the staff involved to man it all for the once in 15 or 20 years when it would actually be seriously needed in anger. Even when you have it all, you are still subject to serious delays. Better to take a couple of days of hell every so often. The southern UK just does not have a Chicago/Montreal/Stockholm type climate. I sometimes remark to my Scandinavian colleagues when they criticise the house insulation/glazing standards of the UK- we don't have a Scandinavian climate either!