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Gangwon buried in most snow in a century [ Korea ]
Korean JoonAng Daily ^ | Feb 13 2011 | Kim Hee-jin

Posted on 02/13/2011 8:58:56 PM PST by NoLibZone

The biggest snowfall in 100 years in Gangwon paralyzed coastal cities and mountain villages near the East Sea, isolating about 1,280 residents in 640 households and leading to the collapse of 75 structures. The local military office sent 11 helicopters and roughly 12,000 soldiers on rescue operations.

And more snow was predicted for the region overnight, up to 50 additional centimeters (19.7 inches), by the Korea Meteorological Administration yesterday. The administration issued heavy snow warnings to most cities and villages in the province.

“As the temperature will plunge tonight, leading to icy roads in the morning, drivers and pedestrians should take special cautions,” the state-run weather agency said. “We advise residents to prepare for additional snowfall and to prevent their roofs or structures from collapsing.”

Snow began falling on Friday and stopped at about 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. Gangneung saw 77.7 centimeters of snow on Friday, the heaviest since the city began weather observations in 1911. Samcheok was hit with 120 centimeters of snow, Donghae 100.1 centimers, and Daegwallyeong 56.3 centimeters, according to the KMA.

“I couldn’t open the front door of my house because piles of snow blocked it,” said Hong Jong-won, a 62-year-old resident of Gangneung. “I had to push away snow piles as if I were wading in water just to reach the shovel, which was 10 meters away from the front door.”

The Gangwon provincial government’s Disaster and Safety Management Office said yesterday that 67 greenhouses, seven livestock facilities and one warehouse collapsed from the weight of accumulated snow on their roofs.

Roughly 4.5 billion won ($4 million) worth of damage was estimated, the office said.

The ROK Eighth Corps, deployed near the east coast, sent 11 helicopters to Donghae, Gangwon. The helicopters flew over snow-inundated regions and communicated with soldiers on the ground, who delivered necessities to isolated residents. Some helicopters dropped soldiers on ropes to deliver relief supplies or give medical support to the cut-off houses.

The corps also sent 57 snowplows and 330 other equipment to clear snow from roads.

Soldiers rescued about 450 vehicles stuck in thigh-high snow on highways since Friday.

On highway No. 7, connecting Imwon-ri and Hosan-ri in Samcheock, a 26-ton tanker truck skidded on an icy road and blocked the two-lane highway. About 300 people in 100 cars were stuck on the road for 34 hours until 5:00 a.m. on Saturday when enough snow was cleared. Local officials said the drivers were stranded without water or food until policemen arrived with bread and drinks early Saturday.

At 9:00 p.m. on Friday, an express bus skidded on the highway near Sonyang-myeon, Sokcho, trapping some 150 vehicles for seven hours.

Traffic officials and local police officers finally restricted access to the highway to vehicles equipped for heavy snow.

According to the local government, about 400 local buses running 293 routes in the province were suspended or ran limited routes.

In order to remove the snow on the roads and expressways, the Gangwon provincial government dispatched 1,560 plows, 5,400 workers and 2,000 policemen to scatter salt and control traffic. “The northeastern wind, created by the low pressure in southwest, brought the snow clouds to the East Sea,” an official at the Korea Meteorological Administration said yesterday.

By Kim Hee-jin [heejin@joongang.co.kr]


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iceagenow; korea; manbearpig
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1 posted on 02/13/2011 8:59:01 PM PST by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

global warming, yessir ... a real threat dontcha know.


2 posted on 02/13/2011 9:04:45 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Mmogamer

I know when my father was stationed there at Camp Casey in 1955/56, Korea had very cold winters and hot summers. He remembers frying eggs on the hood of his jeep when it got hot.


3 posted on 02/13/2011 9:28:18 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: NoLibZone

Has the Goracle been to Korea recently? Maybe there have been some anti-AGW protests occurring in the country because the Gore Effect sure is hitting them hard.


4 posted on 02/13/2011 9:51:47 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Mmogamer

A Snowlocaust in the making?


5 posted on 02/13/2011 9:53:59 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: NoLibZone

Looks like Gangwon is now Gang lost.


6 posted on 02/13/2011 9:54:27 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: NoLibZone; NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; tubebender; Carry_Okie; ...
'Snow bomb' hits eastern Gangwon Province


An excavator removes snow from a road in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, Sunday. The heaviest snowfall in a century hit Gangneung and other cities in the eastern part of the province between Friday and Saturday, with hundreds of people stranded on roads and causing property damage.

/ Korea Times photo by Kim Joo-young

7 posted on 02/13/2011 10:07:40 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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According to the Gangwon Regional Meteorological Administration, Gangneung received 77.7 centimeters of snow Friday, the heaviest single-day snowfall since the weather agency began compiling data in 1911. The two-day snowfall reached 110 centimeters in Samcheok, 100 centimeters in Donghae, 56 centimeters in Daegwallyeong and 43 centimeters in Sokcho.

8 posted on 02/13/2011 10:10:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
110 cm = 3.6 ft. That's a fair amount of snow but no record.


9 posted on 02/13/2011 10:57:09 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is a total abrogation. Why do I know. NASA Hansen tells me so. It is really actually balmy. No deep snow storms, crippling their existence, no horribly cold temperatures.
This is all a mistake. Let us say... a mis-representation of what is going on in this Asian country.
E. I could not sleep again and wondered down to the computer to then view some of the key note speakers at CPAC, namely Bolten and West. God bless them both.
Nighty night.
10 posted on 02/13/2011 11:22:39 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; mmanager; Fiddlstix; Fractal Trader; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; ...
Thanx Ernest_at_the_Beach !

While this event does not qualify for a Gore Effect citation (as it is not coincident with an event to promote draconian global warming legislation) it is further experiential evidence that at least as strong a case can be made anecdotally for global cooling as for global warming. Lest we forget...

 


The Gore Effect

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11 posted on 02/14/2011 3:24:40 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: steelyourfaith

Goodness gracious! Seeing the Gore Effects all in one list is shocking. Thanks.

You do have two repeats, but still...:

First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated: Register, October 2008

Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington - Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as snow blankets D.C.:


12 posted on 02/14/2011 4:30:15 AM PST by TheOldLady ("20 Years Ago Desert Storm began...where were you...?" "I believe I was hitting it." - Lazamataz)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Well, this better not interfere with the Korean dramas I like to watch on the internet. :)


13 posted on 02/14/2011 5:32:04 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: NoLibZone

Snowpocalypse!


14 posted on 02/14/2011 5:36:15 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: TigersEye

Zowiee!!...Is that the road to Pikes peak or something like that?


15 posted on 02/14/2011 7:02:13 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: TigersEye

Where is that snow? How did they clean the road?


16 posted on 02/14/2011 8:39:48 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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To: AmericaUnite
Rotary plows,...truck mounted...here is a train mounted rotary plow at work ...out on the Great Plains somewhere...(Nebraska or Kansas or Eastern Colorado):

Rotary Snow Plow Union Pacific 900082 Blizzard 2006 Action

17 posted on 02/14/2011 9:17:49 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: TheOldLady

Thanx for the heads up, as I’ll edit.


18 posted on 02/14/2011 11:44:30 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: AmericaUnite; Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm not sure where it is now. I first saw that pic in an e-mail forward a few days ago and it said it was just west of Rapid City SD in the Black Hills. I used Google to find it again and found it on a website that claims it is in Japan. Given all the other pics in the e-mail that were definitely in SD, showing houses buried up to their eaves, and higher!, I think that one probably is SD. But here's one I found that is in Japan.

Here is a pic of Trail Ridge Road in Rcky. Mtn. Nat. Park in the spring which is close to where I live.

Notice the wooden pole. Those are put in place before the snow flies so that the snow removal guys know where the road is. In some spots the drop is several thousand feet so staying on the road is important.

19 posted on 02/14/2011 3:09:45 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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This is the kind of snow blower they use on Trail Ridge but this happens to be on Chinook Pass which is in WA state I believe.

Don't stick your hand in there to free a jam! ;^)

20 posted on 02/14/2011 3:21:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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