Portland’s not alone in being unprepared for unusually heavy snowfall.
LONDON — Cars skidded, people slipped, trains stopped and hospitals turned back non-emergency patients as heavy snows sweeping in from the east blanketed much of Britain on Monday, taking the nation by surprise with its severity despite alarm-laden weather forecasts.
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Snow is just water in disguise. It’s as if your spouse/partner came home one day all decked out in punk gear with piercings and tattoos and lots of leather and chains. It would freak you out. But if your spouse/partner looked like that when you got together with him/her it would just be a normal part of your life. So I’m just saying, ya’ll don’t know from snow.