That brings gack some memories! I remember watching it on TV years ago, they said it was the Motorway that would never close! There's also a very good documentary about the building of the M62 in the early '70's showing the problems thay faced not only with the weather but with the terrain, machinery bogged down up to the cab in peat etc. It was supposed to be designed so that snow wouldn't accumulate on the carraigways due to the camber, or something. Yeah right.