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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 couldnt 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 governments 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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posted on
02/13/2011 8:59:01 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
To: NoLibZone
global warming, yessir ... a real threat dontcha know.
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posted on
02/13/2011 9:04:45 PM PST
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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.
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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.)
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.
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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!)
To: Mmogamer
A Snowlocaust in the making?
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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!)
To: NoLibZone
Looks like Gangwon is now Gang lost.
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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.)
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
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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.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
110 cm = 3.6 ft. That's a fair amount of snow but no record.
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posted on
02/13/2011 10:57:09 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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.
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posted on
02/13/2011 11:22:39 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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 (Links may expire over time.)
- GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE
Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ET Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the 'urgent need' to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A 'Winter Storm Watch' has been posted for the nation's capitol and there is a potential for significant snow... sleet... or ice accumulations. "I can't imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside," a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. "And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel." A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans. Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change. Developing... - HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM (Drudge Report ) February 13, 2007
- March 1, 2007 --- Minnesota Public Radio's "Global Warming: The Home Front" scheduled for March 1 was cancelled due to insufficient global warming ("based on current travel advisories ").
- March 7, 2007 --- A Congressional subcommittee meeting on Energy and Air Quality Hearing on "Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?" was cancelled due to a snow advisory. "A SNOW ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING."
Recall that greenhouse hypothesis maintains that warming due to increases in the greenhouse effect is anticipated to be greatest in the winter.
- Frostbite, equipment damage end latest Bancroft-Arnesen trek
PATRICK CONDON Associated Press March 12, 2007 MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys ridiculing promoters of the global warming scam.
The Gore Effect: Politico, November 2008
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.: - 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.: Business and Media, December 2007
- HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM: Drudge Report, February 2007
- NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Times, March 2007
- Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC: WND, December 2006
- Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps: MOTLS, October 2008
- Global warming activists urged to focus on Earth Day rallies and ignore snow as it 'piles up outside our windows': Alarmism, April 17, 2007
- No Joke! Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness in New York: WKTV, October 22, 2008
- Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow: Baltimore Sun, January 2008
- Global warming rally in the snow: Alarmism, April 2007
- Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: Live Daily, April 2007
- Brrrr - Obama to global warming demonstrators: 'This is probably not the weather to hold up those signs...it's a little chilly today', Space Daily, October 28, 2008
- Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm: Nashua Telegraph, March 2007
- The Gore Effect, Cont. - Gore speaks in Italy during 'rare' cold and snow: Planet Gore, December 16, 2008
- Climate protest canceled 'due to rain and cold': Telegraph (Australia), Nov. 23, 2008
- Penguin Ice Sculptures refuse to melt 1997
- Three British explorers trying to ski to the North Pole to measure the thickness of sea ice only have one day's food left as bad weather hampers supply flights March 17, 2009
- Texas Email Subject Line: 'Global Warming Lecture Postponed Due to Cooling' Houston Chronicle via NewsBusters, December 5, 2009
- Al Gore Warns of Global Warming Doom Seconds Before CNN Reports 'Monster' Winter Storm (NewsBusters) December 9, 2009
- Record Cold To hit Global Warming Conference (Copenhagen To Break Dec 17th Record by 7 Degrees!) December 17, 2009
- Snowstorm squelches climate change protest Copenhagen, December 30, 2009 ... A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday's snowstorm. "Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions," said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah... She called Wednesday evening's effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it's not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate..."There is always the irony element," Major said. (There is also the reality element of the globe's current 11 year cooling cycle, Clea.)
- Gore effect strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row December 8, 2010
- Gore Effect on Steroids: Six straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico more coming December 10, 2010, Watts Up With That
- Record Cold at Cancun Climate Confab 11 Dec 10, New American
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posted on
02/14/2011 3:24:40 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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.:
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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)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, this better not interfere with the Korean dramas I like to watch on the internet. :)
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posted on
02/14/2011 5:32:04 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: NoLibZone
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posted on
02/14/2011 5:36:15 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: TigersEye
Zowiee!!...Is that the road to Pikes peak or something like that?
To: TigersEye
Where is that snow? How did they clean the road?
To: AmericaUnite
To: TheOldLady
Thanx for the heads up, as I’ll edit.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:44:30 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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.
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posted on
02/14/2011 3:09:45 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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! ;^)
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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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