Heavy snow in London

So yesterday, the big news here in the UK is the heavy snow.  I made the trip into London yesterday as usual, but found lots of trains cancelled and had to wait a long time to get in.  The snow meant I couldn't ride the motorcycle for any of the trip. Things were so bad that we only worked a half day anyway and tried to make the difficult trip home. Now, it's 5:45 am and I've been looking through websites trying to determine whether it is worth making the effort at all today. Here are some pictures I took  yesterday:

Everyone says the same thing: in lots of places, this is nothing!  True.  I can't imagine them closing down Minneapolis for this kind of snow. I tried to act all tough-- like I can handle this easily because I'm American and we see this all the time. Of course, I grew up in California-- so I am just as inexperienced as anyone else.