It doesn't snow every week in winter in New York, but when it does it comes down hard. In February there were two instances when it snowed so heavily that all the cities three airports just closed down for a day. I was lucky that it missed my flights to and from Spain with just a few days.

Three days before I left New York, the city basically shut down and again three days before I was coming back it was the same thing. The second time it effected me more as I had guests staying in my apartment that couldn't leave and other guests arriving that never came.

I'm always impressed that flying works so well even in a snowstorm. I've heard of delays back home in Sweden but never of airports closing. It makes me wonder why a metropolitan city like New York where it snows like this at least once every winter, is not better prepared. It's a mystery!