Power Cut
Five inches of snow brought most of England to a standstill last week, but Universities kept going. It took a flooded electricity substation to close the entirety of the Strand and Aldwych, along with the LSE and the King’s College Strand Campus. People were milling aimlessly on the street, with hastily written paper signs on doors saying “School closed for 12/2/07 due to power cut”. It took a man with a megaphone on the steps of the Old Building to get the stunned people to start walking away. I cursed that I didn’t have a camera on me right then, because the scene was pretty surreal. The LSE Students’ Union website urged everyone reading it this morning to go back to bed, as there was “absolutely no reason to travel to campus today”.
A friend of mine was supposed to show a visiting friend the school pubs today. I guess we’ll have to go somewhere else.