In January 2010 the whole of the UK was covered in a thick blanket of snow which brought the country to it’s knees. The public transport systems failed, schools were shut for days and roads came to a standstill ( some motorists were stranded in their cars for hours ) . Local authorities started running out of salt and grit and had little or no snow plowing equipment and even the channel tunnel was disrupted, all over the country there were stories of stranded shoppers sleeping in shopping malls and temperatures plummeted to record lows of minus 22 Celsius…