Snow brings chaos to the Paris area - by S95

[WesternGuy]

Nice images Franglais, but where I live, we get that sort of stuff every winter and the results are always the same, every fall/winter the first time it happens - complete traffic chaos. When was the last time you had snow like that in Paris?

WesternGuy

[Franglais]

According to the statistics the last time we had 11cm (more than 4 inches) of snow was in January 1987. For me it was more like January 1998 (I had to walk home). If the trucks aren't out salting the highway before the snow starts then the falling snow gets crushed into a sheet of ice by traffic. Everything stops including the salting trucks.

In Paris city traffic is just slowed down (the city is almost flat). I live some way outside in a fairly inaccessible valley. It's one of the prettiest parts of the Paris area - and the most difficult when it snows.