Japan's Hardy Snow Country Now Faces a Test of Time

New York Times ^ | 1/9/06 | Norimitsu Onishi

[saquin]

A local resident clears the snow for a passage at Tsunan in northern Japan, on Saturday January 7, 2006.

A resident, climbing on the roof, clears the snow from his house at Iiyama, northern Japan, on Saturday January 7, 2006.

A Japanese woman removes snow to keep the passage Friday morning, Jan. 6, 2006 in Tsunam, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Tokyo.

Yikes, that's a lot of snow! I will never complain about winter again. :-)

[BipolarBob]

Bushs fault.

[Mo1]

I'm thinking the Global Warming ain't working

[Flavius]

amazing

[BnBlFlag]

Yep. If Bush had gotten the Kyoto Treaty ratified this would not be Happening!

[nutmeg]

Wow, interesting thread, saquin! Thanks.

[skinkinthegrass]

Japan Ping :)

[cryptical]

Yikes, that's a lot of snow! I will never complain about winter again. :-)

I'm in Minnesota, and I'm impressed.

More proof of global warming, I guess.

[Balding_Eagle]

Look at that last picture, the ground isn't frozen, the street is wet, not frozen.

[gaijin]

Maybe if they STAY snowed in, they'll start having babies.

[DTogo]

Wow, some place that actually puts Buffalo, NY to shame! (How would Tom Jolls have reported that?)

Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[singletrack]

Commander Tom would say
"its 11 oclock ,do you know where your 13 ft of snow is?"

[sushiman]

" Look at that last picture, the ground isn't frozen, the street is wet, not frozen."

Daytime temps above freezing , so with some sun the snow melts a bit ...+6C where I am in Japan today ...Tomorrow morning supposed to be -6C ...

[elmer fudd]

I'm also guessing that they might have put down some salt or other deicer.

[DTogo]

HA!HA! Irv and Rick would then make him go dig their cars out!

[Talking_Mouse]

Maybe if they STAY snowed in, they'll start having babies.

Not at 80 years old they won't. (At least if their names are not Sarah and Abraham, they won't.)

[Talking_Mouse]

Please add me to your list

[DTogo]

Hanaseru_Nezumi , you're on the list!

[dsc]

"Maybe if they STAY snowed in, they'll start having babies."

That's one of their biggest problems.

There's hardly anyone young and hardy enough to dig them out.

The children they had, and slaved to educate, moved to where the jobs are.

[beaver fever]

I used to live in Churchill Manitoba, (Polar Bear Country)

THe place was an artic desert with less than an inch of precip per year. When the snow came it was drift snow off Hudson's Bay and buried everything.

Me and my friends used to walk to school over snowdrifts that buried our houses. Up one side past your bedroom window and down the otherside.

It was a hoot. We used to joke that it was faster to go over a house than around it.