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The weather provided a pair of contrasting tales: hardship in Appalachia and humor in England. The hardship tales were told by CBS' Hari Sreenivasan and NBC's Mike Taibbi as more than a quarter of a million Kentucky homes are still without electricity following last week's icestorm. NBC's Taibbi heard the ubiquitous "sounds of chainsaws" as utility crews worked to restring powerlines. In London, the streets were stalled by snow. ABC's Miguel Marquez and NBC's Stephanie Gosk noted the lack of municipal snowplows: "Just six inches brought one of Europe's mightiest cities to its knees," Gosk exclaimed. Mayor Boris Johnson told her that being unprepared was the fiscally prudent thing: it would not be "a good investment of taxpayers' money to have snowplows, you know, for an incident of a kind that only occurs once every 20 years." Londoners themselves were so ill-equipped for snow that some resorted to using turkey roasting trays as toboggans.
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