Bison futé

Road traffic and slow transportation is so important to us here in France that we treat it much the same ways that the Americans treat National Defense.

In America there are the DefCon conditions which pass from 5 through 1 and, more appropriately, the Homeland Security advisories which pass from green through blue, yellow and orange to red.

In France we have our road traffic conditions which pass from green days through orange days and red days through to black days and nights. These are all dictated and predicted by the national organisation known as Bison Futé (sharpened buffalo).

This morning was declared Orange. Therfore, after having spent an hour getting in to Paris in the morning for that past two mornings running, I was quite worried that Alex and I were going to have to leave home at 06:30 in the morning to get to the Gare du Nord on time for a 10:19 Eurostar.

Yet again... things were no where near as bad as the national organisations had predicted.

Anyone remember the Y2K Scare?