#LondonCalling: Life in London for snowpocalyse. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
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#LondonCalling: Life in London for snowpocalyse. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/motorists-stranded-snow-london-motorway-080508752.html
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS High of the World. I'm John Batcher with Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial |
| 0:38.8 | board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. And I'm in New England and Joe knows |
| 0:44.6 | New England very well. So the observations that he brings to this discussion are very helpful. |
| 0:52.0 | He's been through real winters. That's New England winters. Vermont, New Hampshire, real |
| 0:57.1 | winters. When you go outside and it's minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit, yes, I did that once. |
| 1:04.5 | Unfortunately, I could get back inside quickly because all of a sudden it becomes hard to |
| 1:09.1 | breathe. Now, none of that is happening in London. Joe tells me, however, they've had a |
| 1:14.0 | snow apocalypse. What does it look like, Joe? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, we had several inches, I think, of snow on Sunday evening. And it was actually absolutely |
| 1:22.7 | beautiful when you went outside. I went for a walk at about 10 in the evening on Sunday |
| 1:27.1 | because I couldn't resist the New Englander in me. Couldn't resist the opportunity to |
| 1:32.9 | go out and enjoy the snow and people were building snowmen, quite large snowmen, actually. I was |
| 1:38.6 | impressed as a New Englander and generally enjoying themselves. And then Monday rolled around |
| 1:45.1 | and people had to commute and that went less well because the reality is that the UK historically |
| 1:51.5 | has had a pretty mild climate might only get one, maybe two at the outside, snowstorms each |
| 1:58.0 | year, especially in the south of the UK in London and the south east. And so I think that |
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