George Best Belfast City Airport had to close twice to allow for snow clearing and de-icing.
Snow clearing teams will remain on standby at City of Derry airport throughout the day.
Grays Athletic also put out a "snow clearing" appeal ahead of their game with York - asking if any fans have "a small tractor or a quad bike" the club could borrow, before eventually declaring at 1300 GMT that the game would go ahead - but then announcing 15 minutes later that it had been called off.
It also makes street sweepers, backhoes, and all that snow-clearing equipment the Northeast needed more of last winter.
Meanwhile, "snow champions", who are part of a volunteer snow-clearing scheme set up Sandwell Council, have been out clearing footways around the area.
The TV 2000 is a key weapon in the fight to keep flights on time but, as Nilsen intimates, there are a host of other snow-clearing devices and tactics employed at Oslo Airport.
It will allow citizens to organise themselves around snow-clearing activities, adopt a stretch of pavement to clear, offer to share shovels and snowblowers, or even volunteer to clear snow for people who cannot do so themselves.
But the vehicles are now preventing snow ploughs from clearing roads and rubbish from being collected.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he lifted the "weather emergency" on Wednesday, as salting crews and snow plows finished clearing city streets.
In New York we get a mayor who makes war on Big Gulp sodas while proving himself inept at basic government functions such as clearing snow.
Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy replied to questions on the topical matter of road gritting and the clearing of snow on footpaths.
In a windswept, snow-dusted forest clearing, three siblings bury their eight-month-old brother.
Councillors praised residents for showing "community support" by clearing pavements of snow and ice.
The A39 in Exmoor has been particularly problematic, but the highways team managed to re-open the road by early afternoon after clearing it from snow, the county council said.
Lord Bradshaw, for the Liberal Democrats, condemned the "nonsense" that householders could risk being sued for inadequately clearing their pathway of snow.
The cities of Bridgeport and New Haven in Connecticut were still busy clearing roads and removing snow, but businesses began opening up in their downtowns.
Workers were clearing the runway at East Midlands Airport after heavy snow fell there.
Upon reaching the top, you emerge from the trees onto a small rocky clearing looking directly onto a long dragons-back-like range of grey snow-capped peaks: the imposing 5, 600m-high Jade Dragon.
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