Prepare for your 'snow event'

In the recent cold snap, all those people who waited in the driving snow for buses that never arrived - or groaned on board a plane when the Captain apologised that it would be another hour before they could find a de-icing truck - must have wondered how we could have possibly been so unprepared for the blizzards. After all, the weather forecasters had been going on about the oncoming storm for at least a week. So why did the UK effectively grind to a halt? A colleague and I had been due to go to Europe for a meeting and, fortunately as Heathrow disappeared under a blanket of snow so su...