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Snow business equals no business? Or does it?

In the last few days I have witnessed many strange sights such as a man doing the splits on the ice at the driveway entrance to Dunnes in Graiguecullen, thermometers reporting temperatures of -14 degrees, grown women eating snow as though it were ice cream.

Roads are treacherous, bus and rail services are interrupted if not cancelled, cars have been abandoned on the side of the road. By and large people are stuck in their homes. If they are lucky their cupboards are laiden down with non perishable goods. Huzza for beans and tuna!

All conversation is based around frozen water pipes, bad roads and what random products can be used to grit the footpaths. The oddest I have heard to date is cat litter.

So the whole country has come to a stand still. Or has it?

Barrow Valley Cleaning Products, t2′s next door neighbour tell me that they have sold out of all ice related products. My uncle, who owns a furniture shop in Co Cork, informs me he has had a rush on electric heaters. Here at t2 the wonderful world of the world wide web has kept us open for business. I may be the only one physically in the office but through the magic of email, skype and all sorts of fabulous digital technologies our world keeps turning.

On the Ray Darcy show this morning they said we haven’t had weather conditions like this since 1982. In 1982 being snowed in meant being snowed in. It meant being cut off from the outside world.’Not now though. Nowadays we can work from home, we can get real time information from the likes of AAroadwatch and Irish Rail on twitter and all from the comfort of our fireside. Gone is the uncertainty that comes with having to wait for the 6 o’clock news for updates on road conditions.’Being snowed in 2010 means no rest for the wicked. It makes me wonder whether these icy conditions will inspire an avalanche of people to work from home? Did you see what I did there…avalanche…snow….never mind.

Having said all this as I am the only one actually in the office today I can’t fight the feeling that all my colleagues are at home alternating teas with hot whiskeys and dashing in and out between emails to build snowmen and indulge in the odd snowball fight.

To see our photos of snow in Carlow visit t2′s facebookpage.