The worst is over - part 2

So the snow is gone now, after lingering for days and days.
What are actually to report are the reactions and consequences of such weather.
Everything froze. Public transports, services. The BBC announced that Great Britain had to ask Germany for help and salt to scatter on the main roads. That salt had even to be rationed.
I did wonder how a country situated up in the northern hemisphere and surrounded by the seas, could not have the means to face such a situation. I mean, considering the location, it is quite likely that heavy snow will come during winter months.
Supermarkets did not see deliveries of goods for days, so shelves were empty. No one cleaned the streets from the snow, not even the main ones! Schools stayed closed for days.
All transports (road, railway, air) were blocked.

I wonder how few cm of snow could stop human activities.. We are talking of 25cm, maybe 50 cm of snow, but not meters!! Maybe the British government should have a meeting with the Russian one and understand how they face meters and meters of snow and still manage to run the country!!

PS: it has been so cold that me and my flatmates one morning, realized that we had no running water.. The water pipes had frozen!! For two days we were back to the Middle ages.. Rationing water for cooking, cleaning and drinking, melting water to flush toilets..
I noticed though how much water we use every day.. A lot, really a lot.