Rapaire,
          That is one of the best I`ve read for ages. I thought we in Britain were the only ones who panicked when the first snow flake fell but I`m glad to be in good company. Having said that, a couple of years ago our train operators were taken to task for using the term "wrong type of snow" when a number of locomotives failed but engineering did show that an unusual size of snowflake did foul up the filters and did for the motors.