Let it snowmageddon

[matsuki]

Yeesh, 19+ dead from this storm cycle!!!!!!!!!!!

You kids play and drive safe out there, eh!!??????? Just breathe and take a happy happy snow day. It is textbook Shikata ga nai, after all.

Also, let's not forget that bivouac kit in the car. Even if it's just a local run.

Don't leave the car if you get stuck, be carefull of the exhaust gas if the snow pile up, have water and any kind of food.

Hahaha, in that situation, doesn't the car beat a bivouac? It's got heat, power, and can drive you out of there eventually?

Meanwhile I have learnt from NHK that if the external air conditioner unit is blocked by snow, the air conditioner will not function effectively.

It's good to be getting value for money from that license fee at last...

For that fee at least they should've educated them viewers that the way to melt the snow blocking the external unit is to turn on the 冷房...

MAGIC!!!

Pssst Tonto, you are not in Kansasto anymore!

...and I won't be for awhile if I can't make it out tomorrow. If Wednesday brings more snow as predicted, I think Abe resurrect the good ol snow excuse for his Abenomics performance.

Kan'etsu is clear! チャンス！

...packing up now. Not looking forward to the traffic....or possibly getting stuck midway, though I'll have enough overpriced gift senbei, castella, etc. okashii to survive a month in the back. I swear we should open up a coffee shop with free side okashii with the yama of excess gift boxes we always have here.

[legion]

Hahaha, in that situation, doesn't the car beat a bivouac? It's got heat, power, and can drive you out of there eventually?

It's better than being outside because you get wind protection, but metal conducts away body heat, so I'd throw in sleeping bags & blankets. Also as mentioned, if you leave the engine running the snow can block the flow of the exhaust and you can end up poisoning yourself. So safest would be to run the engine a while, warm up, then kill it for a while, especially if you start to feel drowsy.

Keeping the door openable is also a good idea.

[Coligny]

For heating, them chemical heating pouches do good... I buy them bulk... Since I injured my shoulder... While reading books... In my bunkbed... (Told you I was hardcore...)

[Doctor Stop]

Toilet paper is likely to be Fuji City, Shizuoka.

That explains why that town smells like shit.

[GomiGirl]

Source - the Chive

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[wagyl]

You really need to keep up GG. Some sources are exemplary, two days before the Chive.

[Wage Slave]

Been there. It's actually pretty good, if a bit to the glory of the founder. Fair dues though.

[GomiGirl]

You really need to keep up GG. Some sources are exemplary, two days before the Chive.

Sorry..

But hey - I posted it first on FG so that must count for something.

[kurogane]

Hahaha, in that situation, doesn't the car beat a bivouac? It's got heat, power, and can drive you out of there eventually?

Yeah, I meant a bivouac in the car. If you've got a proper sleeping bag and some food, it can be quite a little igloo.
Anyways, you play safe and take it easy out there. Slow and steady wins the race.

[Coligny]

Toilet paper is likely to be Fuji City, Shizuoka.

That explains why that town smells like shit.

Not sure... Nagoya don't make any toilet paper, despite the smell...
(The front of Nagoya eki, in summer reeks of sewer vapor to the point of making the rats vomit)

[canman]

It is still frickin unbelievable here. I drove to school today, and a trip that usually takes 25 minutes even with traffic took me 90 minutes! Most of the major roads are down to one lane, since they have plowed all the snow to the side, then the stupid bastards left it to freeze, and it won't melt until July! Other places you lurch from huge hole to another where either a car got stuck or there is a manhole which is warm and has melted the snow. I'm seriously thinking about withholding my city taxes until they do something about these road conditions. Luckily they have decided to start classes an hour later than usual. One poor student, who lives in the next town left home at 6:15 and arrived at 9:15 to travel only 20 km! Three hours.

[matsuki]

ost of the major roads are down to one lane, since they have plowed all the snow to the side, then the stupid bastards left it to freeze, and it won't melt until July! Other places you lurch from huge hole to another where either a car got stuck or there is a manhole which is warm and has melted the snow.

If you ever wrap your head around their logic with this shit, do explain! The highways has most of the road cleared yesterday but then there were all these areas in the left lane where it looks like the snow plow just decided to stop and head to the next lane, only to go back into the left lane a couple meters later. Unless there is some poor car or something underneath all that shit, all they succeeded at doing was creating some really dangerous road obstacles. As to the already narrow roads in Tokyo...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Coligny]

If you ever wrap your head around their logic

You new here ?

[BigInJapan]

Toilet paper is likely to be Fuji City, Shizuoka.

Not sure... Nagoya don't make any toilet paper, despite the smell...

A bit of a non sequitur, but my next door neighbour happens to work at a local paper factory that accounts for 60% of the toilet paper produced here in Kyushu.

[Mike Oxlong]

Heavy Snowfall in Kanto That Has Killed 15 So Far Is Clearly Not Disastrous Enough for Prime Minister Abe...

The tweet (2/17/2014) by Asahi Shinbun's reporters attached to the Prime Minister's Official Residence says it all:

Reporters: What is your thoughts on the government's measures for the heavy snow?

PM Abe: Good Morning!

The twitter account of the PM Official Residence on Emergency Response Information did not have anything on the extreme snow fall in parts of Kanto, particularly Yamanashi, until the afternoon of Sunday February 16, 2014. Even then, it only retweeted the tweets by Ministry of Land and Infrastructure with the links to PDF files (as if people accessing the emergency tweets on their cellphones can easily open the PDF files).

There was a tweet by someone who called the PM Official Residence on Sunday to urge someone there to get busy on helping Yamanashi and other prefectures which are not prepared for this kind of snowfall. (In normal years, Yamanashi's snowfall is about 14 centimeters. This year, it is over 156 centimeters.) The call was received by a guard, who told this person to call back on Monday (weekday).

PM Abe himself had a tempura dinner (15,000 yen (US$150) per person, I hear) on Sunday with his supporters at an upscale restaurant in uptown Tokyo, as people stuck on the highways and roads in Yamanashi and northern Kanto survived on free bread provided by Yamazaki Bread.

Another heavy snow storm is expected this week, as early as February 17 or 18.

As to the new governor of Tokyo who said "Snow? What's the big deal?", his twitter account has nothing so far on the snow emergency, which is severely affecting the western (mountainous) Tokyo. The last tweet was on February 13 or 14, telling his followers he has been working very hard every day as the governor.

[Russell]

Made a short visit to Tokyo today, and didn't see any freaking snow.

What the fornicate are you guys talking about all the time?!?

I'm outta here...

[yanpa]

Well it's mostly melted in the central areas now, doh. Still have heaps of it piled along the road opposite, if you'd said I could have given you directions where to come and get some.

[Russell]

Next time better then.

And I brought my new snow shovel along all the way from Kansai. Sniff...

[yanpa]

Yamanashi Prefecture would welcome you and your snow shovel with open arms. Plenty of major routes still need clearing, by all accounts.

[Russell]

Thanks for the tip!

But unfortunately I am already on the way back. Yamanashi is easiest to reach from Tokyo (under normal conditions), I have been told.

[kurogane]

Next time better then.

And I brought my new snow shovel along all the way from Kansai. Sniff...

Is it a nice snow shovel, Russell? I have a nice snow shovel, too. It telescopes.

[matsuki]

Next time better then.

And I brought my new snow shovel along all the way from Kansai. Sniff...

Is it a nice snow shovel, Russell? I have a nice snow shovel, too. It telescopes.

Hehehe, scopes...

[canman]

Third day in a row, no mail delivery. What ever happened to the mailman's code.

[matsuki]

Third day in a row, no mail delivery. What ever happened to the mailman's code.

In Japan, it's probably "Rain, sleet, snow...gaman, shoganai, kanbenshiteyo!"

[Mike Oxlong]

Third day in a row, no mail delivery. What ever happened to the mailman's code.

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=55053

[Russell]

Next time better then.

And I brought my new snow shovel along all the way from Kansai. Sniff...

Is it a nice snow shovel, Russell? I have a nice snow shovel, too. It telescopes.

Cool!

It probably can bring lots of relief...

[Taro Toporific]

And I brought my new snow shovel along all the way from Kansai. Sniff...

Hey, you could sell that shovel on Yahoo.co.jp!

(It has been almost 2 weeks since Snowmageddon and prices are still jacked-up on lots of things in the stores.)
http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/8store/sei-1502.html

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[Coligny]

Soooo, you mean, this usually 3000y item price was not a mistake but just war profiteering ?

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Are there really some imbeciles thinking they can make a quick buck like this ?

[matsuki]

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[yanpa]

It's baaaaack.