Snow in London

On our way back from York it began to snow and as we got closer to London the snow got worse. There are a few people from Texas here and they'd never seen stay on the ground and most hadn't seen snow ever, so we went outside had a snowball fight, showed them how to make snow angels and made a cute little snowman with them. They were wearing about 10 layers of clothing well those of us from the midwest were wearing a coat, hat and mittens.
Our heater hasn't been working since Sunday, so our room is freezing. Anna and I put about ten layers of clothes on before we've gone to bed the past two nights. We went down to reception to ask for a space heater but they were all out by the time we got there so we've been spending the least amount of time possible in our room. They're suppose to fix it today so hopefully we will be able to sleep in warmth tonight.
A bunch of us decided we were going to go to a pub to watch the Superbowl on Sunday night. Here in London it began at 11:30 pm. It normally takes us about 15 to 20 minutes to get to this pub (it's one of our favorites because it's so cheap) and that night it took us almost an hour. The snow that we were getting in London was the worst snow storm they've had since 1991 and many of tubes which have part of their route outside were not able to run causing some lines to not be running at all and most others were seeing major delays. At one point we had to wait 30 minutes as opposed to 2 minutes for a train to arrive. It was really great to meet other American students not from our program, we meet a ton of people from Minnesota well we were there. After the Superbowl was done we found the right bus station and waited about an hour and a half for the bus to arrive. When it didn't come we called a number called Transportation For London which you call and tell a live person your location and where you're trying to go and they tell you what bus to take and what stop to get off at or how to contact a cab and even what tubes to take if they're still open. We found out that all the buses had been halted because of the storm so the guy gave us a number to text to get three different cab company numbers. We called all three numbers and they were all booked up for the entire night so we had to walk home. None of us really knew where we were going because we'd never walked it before and it took us two and a half hours in the cold and snow to finally get home.
Yesterday our morning classes at the University of London were cancelled but we still had our theatre class because that was in the Vandon House. It was still snowing out and the buses still were not running and the tube was still majorly delayed. Most businesses either closed early or didn't open at all yesterday and it's reported that due to the weather it cost London almost half a million pounds to close down. We also had to go to a theatre performance yesterday and it took us about two hours to get there.
It amazes me that only about two inches of snow can cause a city to come to a complete stop. I don't think London owns a snow plow since I haven't seen one cleaning the streets. Most Londoners don't know what to do in this weather. Yesterday morning alone there was about 45 car accidents because people were driving too fast on the snow. I saw a guy riding his bike with only biker shorts on and another person walking around in snow pants and a t-shirt. One of the boys from Central for some reason had brought a collapsable shovel with him (it must be an Iowa thing) and walked around offering to clean storefronts sidewalks off. He made a fair amount of money doing it.