What the hell ?

I would have never have thought just a few inches of snow and it shuts down a good portion of the country.

Our neighborhood has 6-7 foot high snow banks eh! just grab a shovel and start digging out.

Moto

Could I politely suggest http://uktrains.pbwiki.com (wot I made) which supplied BBC and crowd-sourced travel news via Twitter throughout the disruption (and is still doing it) and stayed up throughout.

I spoke to Natwest on the phone to try to find a branch open, and the lady tried phoning a few. Each time no one answered the phone she said that it could be they were short staffed and not answering the phone, or the branch was closed. I asked that shouldn't she know if the branch was open or closed, she said they didn't know.

Local branch had a note up on the window saying "due to unforeseen circumstances we will be closed until further notice". Lol. The circumstances are called "snow". It was forcast so it's not unforeseen. And "until further notice", why don't you just say until tomorrow?

here 'tis

http://www.traffic-england.co.uk/

The highways agency link to show you the state of the motorways links to
traffic-england.co.uk
If you try and look up the stae of say the m5 in the south all you get is box telling you
"Due to high demand the map is currently disabled, we are sorry for the inconvenience. "

This seems to be a permanent message too