I'm Portsmouth born and bred but the last significant snow I saw was in Feb 1996 and I would only be frustrated to see other areas getting significant snowfall and nothing again in Pompey, but for family reasons I've been in Reading since last wednesday so I've been in just the right place for this event. Tonight Reading is pretty quiet, a very limited bus service ran today but at least there was mobility in the town centre, abandoned cars litter every street an pavements are very slippery. I don't know what Reading has seen in previous years but locals are saying its the worst in a generation. My wife and I arrived at hospital to visit our daughter at around 11am and the nurses said that most of them had simply slept in whatever spaces they could find on the wards last night.