Being not far from the sea,London is famous for its fog.The worst of them happened on December 4,1952.All movement in the town came to stop.It was almost impossible to drive ow ride in anything.The streets which led into the cinter were filled with buses that moved two miles an hour.Soon however ,the traffic was stopped .Being left by their drivers buses and cars stood empty in the streets .Many who usually traveled by bus took underground ,but there were so many people there that the gates had to be closed.Being caught in the fog,people felt their way along the walls of houses with one hand,while they put out the other in front of them so as not to knock against sometime or someboby.
At the Opera House they got through the first act of La Trauiata before so much fog had spread into the builing that the singers could not see the conductor.
It was a terribly indeed,and as many as 4,000 people in London lost their loves.