Snow accumulation last recorded at Jan 10th 9am.
Niigata prefecture takes the cake with 360cm (~ 11.8 feet).
This is not the recreational kind of snow. We're talking about 71 killed in Northern Japan. With snow piled up on sidewalks and roadways, lots are trapped and unable to get to food or shelters. Among the 71 victims most are senior citizens living in remote areas where snow removal is slow and therefore they take it up to themselves to do the job and if you ever picked up a shovel you know how much work it really is. As seen in this news photo, they're not going anywhere for a while.Record snowfall in Japan kills 3; troops removing snow
Death toll in record Japan snowfall rises
current road condition (major highways) in Japanese
-if you drive in Japan, this is necessary information. Luckily the outrageous record snowfall in Niigata, Nagano, Akita, aomori, yamagata, Fukui, and general Tohoku areas doesn't affect Kanto where I live.
Some videos: 3 meters of snow 1 2 3
To some, the only way out is the windows on the second floor.
4 comments:
Snowing is somthing beautiful for me all the time, for a person who lives somewhere never snows. Of course such heavy snow in Japan and Europe is another issue. In contrast, Oz experienced her warmest year last year and the hottest new year day this year (46'C on 1/1 butthan dropped to 20'C on the following day, crazy climate!). Newspaper here said that the weather will be too hot to live after few decades and scientists said no more snow will be found in Oz after 15 years. I always feel bad about these kind of news and it is just refleftions of what we did and what we are doing.
global climates have been knocked out of balance for some time now, expect to see crazier weather. more hurricanes, snow, record temperatures. they really should have chosen a scarier name than "Global Warming".
yatta-----yesterday i heard in news that,in 22days we had only 6 hours of sunlight in vancouver...how crazy is that??!!everyone please enjoy sunshine!
todd,naoki is my favorite name.many friends who cant say my name call as naoki.and i love it.
You are obsessed with light, Naoko, me too, but somewhat differently. ^_^
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