Is it the end of civilisation as we know it? Probably not.

The snow started during the night of Sunday, and fizzled out by mid-morning Monday. About an inch covered the ground in East Anglia, more in the South-east. The media spent the whole day describing the conditions as chaotic, catastrophic, and they even managed to wheel out pundits to predict dire effects on the credit squeeze and the value of sterling. In Kettering, a man slipped on the pavement and broke his glasses. By this morning (Tuesday), the snow has virtually disappeared. The media are now shifting their attention to the danger of icy patches on the roads.
It makes you proud to be British. No other race can turn an inconvenience into an apocalypse as quickly or as thoroughly as we can. It's what we are good at, doom and gloom. I bet the Book of Revelations was written by a Brit.