Let it snowmageddon

[wagyl]

Might not be exactly what you are looking for, but I have a feeling this was linked here before:
http://www.demap.info/tetsudonow/

(There is every chance that that is just showing what should be the case, though)
Edit: definitely not really real time, since it shows Linear Maglev trains too.... Waste of time link, sorry.



To try to make up for that, Toei Bus information, remarkably user unfriendly. http://tobus.jp/blsys/navim?LCD=j&VCD=ctop&ECD=TOP Someone who does dictionaries should offer to build them an app.

Trains, from the Japanese Portal of choice!
http://transit.loco.yahoo.co.jp/traininfo/area/4/

[Coligny]

I told him to try to get to ebisu as it was closer. Not sure how he fared. Is there a site that shows what trains and buses are running?


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From what I saw in dis'mornin' news there's places in Tokyo swimming under 15cm of cold unfrozen water...

Fracking cold wind right now

[matsuki]

I've been sitting here quietly listening to you Pacific coast folk, because believe me, I can understand what it is like to deal with a dump of snow especially for you when your infrastructure isn't set up for dealing with it. I am also aware that a quarter of the population of the country lives in the Kanto area so your media-centrism is justified to an extent.

However may I be allowed to just say, OK, this year has been light for me so far, with far less days digging a route for my car to get out of the carport, and yay! I haven't had to dig my way out of the front door yet, well, except for that one time but it wasn't really in earnest.

But.

Plus 50 cm overnight last night, with more to come (and it will be heavy weight stuff) and a work project which takes me off site today. I am just off to wade out to the carport to dig a path for the car, and I can see I will have to dig a path back at the end of the day too. I love living where I do, but sometimes it can be beyond a joke.

(News Flash: I just got a phone call from the work destination: there has been an avalanche on the one road in to it, so I have a reprieve until that is cleared)

Not quite that bad over here but I was freezing my balls off trying to take apart my car yesterday....calling that shed a garage is generous, but building something like that and not heating it is downright mental. (not to mention the steel? it's built with is rusted through on more than a few supports) Lemur has had to use parents cars several times this year already as her lil kei doesn't seem to like the cold. That thing really needs to be rebuilt....with some fucking heat...and a workbench...and a TV.

As for Tokyo, the roads are going to be fucked after this winter. Too many idiots don't have studless snow tires and are rolling around on chains, gatagatagataing up the aasufaruto

[Coligny]

Weak battery/insuficient alternator ?
The Note was allergic to cold too, when the battery was too low cranking gave a ratatatatatatac sound because of some electro-clutch not engaging.
Bosch uber expensive battery coupled with dip-charge solar panel helped... A LOT... (even in summer with engine running car voltage was 11.8, with electric power steering that meant that parking at night was shutting down the headlights... that's why I was soo desperate in putting Led's everywhere and 35W HID instead of 50W halogen with the HID brighter anyway)
Meatball don't have that kind of problem... First there is 2 batteries (including one deep discharge for running accessories without using the crank battery) and the crank battery is the size of a truck one easily twice the Note battery size.

[legion]

Decided not to attach the chains and take the kids to their swimming lesson today, cos I can't find the frickin wheels on the car.

[yanpa]

I told him to try to get to ebisu as it was closer. Not sure how he fared. Is there a site that shows what trains and buses are running?


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From what I saw in dis'mornin' news there's places in Tokyo swimming under 15cm of cold unfrozen water...

Fracking cold wind right now

No wind, it rained overnight enough to not melt the snow while converting it into a dense wet mass with a layer of heavy slushice beneath

[Coligny]

Decided not to attach the chains and take the kids to their swimming lesson today, cos I can't find the frickin wheels on the car.

Have you looked under the car ? That's where I keep mine...

[yanpa]

I told him to try to get to ebisu as it was closer. Not sure how he fared. Is there a site that shows what trains and buses are running?


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From what I saw in dis'mornin' news there's places in Tokyo swimming under 15cm of cold unfrozen water...

Fracking cold wind right now

No wind, it rained overnight enough to not melt the snow while converting it into a dense wet mass with a layer of heavy slushice beneath

On the plus side, once the bulk is shifted, what's left melts away fairly quickly.

I am actually wondering if it's warm enough to employ the Traditional Japanese Snow-Clearing Method Using Cold Water.

[legion]

On the plus side, once the bulk is shifted, what's left melts away fairly quickly.

I am actually wondering if it's warm enough to employ the Traditional Japanese Snow-Clearing Method Using Cold Water.

Spent half this morning clearing channels to the drains so the slushy water could drain off the road, it was so deep it was going over the top of Legion minor's wellies.

Even when the air temperature is over zero ice can form on the road, so I am wary of adding more water. Salt might be an idea. If these weather gets to be a frequent event Tokyo-to is going to have to invest in some gritting trucks. Must be some spare Abenomics cash to spend on items we might need once or twice a year.

[yanpa]

Evening is approaching, sun is not shining and wind is blowing from the north so hosepipe stays where it is.

[legion]

This morning I couldn't find the car.

[Russell]

Funny, I cleared all the snow around my house by just looking at it...

[Coligny]

This morning I couldn't find the car.

Lucky you popped up the shield wiperz...

(No front number plate !?)

[Russell]

It almost feels like spring here, so it is hard to imagine the situation farther east.

But fornicate, my online order is stuck in the Kuroneko Yamato center in Kanagawa from last Friday, because all highways westwards are closed due to snow...

[Yokohammer]

It almost feels like spring here, so it is hard to imagine the situation farther east.

But fornicate, my online order is stuck in the Kuroneko Yamato center in Kanagawa from last Friday, because all highways westwards are closed due to snow...

It'd be funny as hell if you'd ordered a snow shovel.

[matsuki]

It almost feels like spring here, so it is hard to imagine the situation farther east.

But fornicate, my online order is stuck in the Kuroneko Yamato center in Kanagawa from last Friday, because all highways westwards are closed due to snow...

It'd be funny as hell if you'd ordered a snow shovel.

...and open it in front of the Kuroneko driver

[Russell]

You guys are joking about it, but it is kind of ridiculous that the Toumei expressway is still closed after all those days. They didn't figure out in the mean time how to make it drivable again?

My goods are not in a hurry. After all, I can wait for my shovel until next winter, but it's not as if snow is as rare as an eruption of mount Fuji, so the authorities responsible should have been prepared better.

[wagyl]

Russell, it was a hell of a lot of snow in areas that don't usually get it: for example, Kumagaya peaked at 62 cm on the ground. Usually you only hear Kumagaya mentioned with peak summer temperatures. It is still 32 cm at time of posting. I know that is not Tomei Expressway route, but it is an indication of how extraordinary this snowfall was for Kanto.

[Taro Toporific]

Funny, I cleared all the snow around my house by just looking at it...

I still digging out the dregs here, which means there's still time for Yukidaruma!

First off is an Osaka hairdresser showing off a breezy snow style for “Obahan”...

breezy-Obahan_Osaka.jpg

breezy Obahan snow lady in Osaka tweet by twitter.com/qqille

Wait a minute…there are barber snowmen too…

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ちょっと待って、床屋の雪だるまあまりにリアル過ぎて怖いんですけどwwww — おだしゅん@LINE吹き飛びました(@yamanote1390) February 14, 2014

However, those snowmen are nothing compared to what’s at the dentist!

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なにこの雪だるま。 くそおもろいやん♩(・Д・)ノ pic.twitter.com/fGRf8ho1×0 — hosaaaaato(@hosaton) February 14, 2014

[yanpa]

Creepy...

Meanwhile... I wonder what thought processes encourage some people (like the twatbuckets further down the street) to clear a patch in front of their house, then dump the cleared snow in the middle of the road where it forms one of those heaps which will take days to melt... A kei-vehicle could just slalom past, but anything else not built for rough conditions is going to have a nasty bump.

[Russell]

Russell, it was a hell of a lot of snow in areas that don't usually get it: for example, Kumagaya peaked at 62 cm on the ground. Usually you only hear Kumagaya mentioned with peak summer temperatures. It is still 32 cm at time of posting. I know that is not Tomei Expressway route, but it is an indication of how extraordinary this snowfall was for Kanto.

OK, OK, I get it. It is hard to imagine here in the land of the mild winters.
I guess I have to be patient until my package arrives.

In the mean time, I start to feel a bit さびしい that you guys get to play in the snow, and I have to watch a scenery that is not much different from the other three seasons.

[yanpa]

Life can be cruel like that...

Need to get a sturdier snow shovel, the metal strip has come off already.

[Yokohammer]

In the mean time, I start to feel a bit さびしい that you guys get to play in the snow, and I have to watch a scenery that is not much different from the other three seasons.

That's heresy, you know.
This is the Land of Four Seasons. Everybody knows that!
But then again, being a gaijin you probably don't have the finely honed perception necessary to see the difference.

Bloody big-nosed barbarians. First it's whales and dolphins, now they're trying to take away the glorious seasons!

[legion]

This morning I couldn't find the car.

Lucky you popped up the shield wiperz...

(No front number plate !?)

fell off in photoshop

[legion]

Life can be cruel like that...

Need to get a sturdier snow shovel, the metal strip has come off already.

last year's snow shovel bit the dust, or should I say ice, the first round of clearing this year, it was already split after being roughly abused digging out cars last year. The wife went out and got a metal shovel, bit pricey but we have a feeling it will be getting regular use. Neighbour's plastic shovel's wooden haft broke too.

Quite a few bent and broken car ports and bicycle shelters around the place.

More snow forecast for Wednesday.

[yanpa]

This morning I couldn't find the car.

Lucky you popped up the shield wiperz...

(No front number plate !?)

fell off in photoshop

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The Norko-Iranian Image Manipulation Standards Committee approves of this.

[Yokohammer]

More snow forecast for Wednesday.

Same up here. Wednesday and Thursday.
I'm hoping and praying for a light dusting rather than another über-dump that will test my shovelling stamina to the limit.

With apologies to those who live in seriously snowy environments ... ENOUGH ALREADY!!

[yanpa]

More snow forecast for Wednesday.

Same up here. Wednesday and Thursday.
I'm hoping and praying for a light dusting rather than another über-dump that will test my shovelling stamina to the limit.

Sssh, you'll get SDH all excited.

With apologies to those who live in seriously snowy environments ... ENOUGH ALREADY!!

Strange, I always had the impression that anywhere north of the Kanto plain turned into an ice-bound hell anyway in winter. Must get out more.

[yanpa]

Life can be cruel like that...

Need to get a sturdier snow shovel, the metal strip has come off already.

last year's snow shovel bit the dust, or should I say ice, the first round of clearing this year, it was already split after being roughly abused digging out cars last year. The wife went out and got a metal shovel, bit pricey but we have a feeling it will be getting regular use. Neighbour's plastic shovel's wooden haft broke too.

Yeah, I think this shovel is suitable for the 5cm-and-melts snow lite that we usually get... Need to get something more solid, if there are any still available.

[Yokohammer]

With apologies to those who live in seriously snowy environments ... ENOUGH ALREADY!!

Strange, I always had the impression that anywhere north of the Kanto plain turned into an ice-bound hell anyway in winter. Must get out more.

The area I live in is relatively warm for Tohoku. They call it the "Shonan of Tohoku" (you know how they love to say things like that here ... like Sendai is the New York of Tohoku, etc ...). Before 3/11 we even had an active surfing community. It normally only snows a few times a year, and when it does the snow is all gone by the following afternoon. This year there have still only been a few snowfalls, but two of those have been waaaaay above average and the roadside snow is likely to stick around until sometime in March. Not usual at all. Which is why there was a huge run on snow shovels the other day. They're normally not needed much.