Yeah, there's a lot of adaptation to local norms. We don't have much snow-clearing equipment because it's so rarely needed (and no-one wants to pay taxes to hav

Yeah, there's a lot of adaptation to local norms. We don't have much snow-clearing equipment because it's so rarely needed (and no-one wants to pay taxes to have it just on the off-chance). Scotland does better because they have more. We have a similar issue with heat-related rail buckling closing lines in the summer. If you run a railway in Morocco it's a lot hotter and you never close lines for that reason - but that's because the tension of the rails there is adjusted for hotter temperatures. A hard frost would cause Moroccan rails to fracture as they shrank, while ours remain within tolerance.