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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: Ever wonder what's going on in Japan? |
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Japan was bracing for more snow on Friday after some of the heaviest snowfall on record that has left 57 people dead and paralysed transport.
Almost 4 metres (13 ft) of snow has piled up in the worst-hit areas of Niigata near the Japan Sea coast, though the snowiest season of the year is yet to come.
Read the full story here .
It's been different for this southern girl, that's for sure.
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Brokyn
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See, this is the kind of stuff I wish the news networks would focus on instead of a mine shaft collapsing.
Anyway, if I were that woman, I totally would have just stayed in. Screw shoveling the sidewalk.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Brokyn wrote: |
| Screw shoveling the FUCKING SKY |
fixed the quote.
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HR-Faith
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not in Niigata prefecture (east coast) where that woman in the picture is, I'm in Aomori prefecture (north coast). It's been fairly bad here too though. We've gotten about 8 feet total, and more expected. However, because we are further north and see snow for about 6 months a year, the city is full of plows and bulldozers, so I think we are a little better equipped to handle it.
If you're curious at all about where things are, here's a pretty good map of Japan:
http://www.ease.com/~randyj/alljapan.jpg
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where's godzilla's house? 
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where's godzilla's house? |
He moved to New York! 
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Brokyn
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You know, I've always wanted it to snow down here. It did when I was two, and apparently I made little mini-snowmen with the other kids in the neighborhood, but I don't remember this.
On second thought, however, nevermind. Knowing Georgia, the one time it snows it'll try to out-do Japan.
Thanks for ruining my childhood dreams, Faith. 
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Man...I wish it would snow over here. The snowboarding sucks right now. There's like a 12" base on some of the mountains. Totally ghey.
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<-- North Dakota. Nuff said.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: snow |
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so that is where all my snow went! here it is january and 'unseasonably warm' weather of twenty-five degrees. the newscaster went so far as to call it gorgeous recently .. until i think she was barraged by hate-telephone-calls
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Haha. Around here....in northern GA....people were wearing shorts yesterday. But we don't usually get snow until March....
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My understanding is that it's been exceptionally mild here too. The temps have been highs of about 29 or so and lows of around 15 lately, I only recall a couple nights where it dipped below zero. The snow has been minor so far, very little all told... we constantly have some snow or slush and ice down but not a lot of snow.
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Brokyn
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| HR-Beau wrote: |
| Haha. Around here....in northern GA....people were wearing shorts yesterday. But we don't usually get snow until March.... |
Screw you and your snow. 
As to Trevor: 35deg is as low as temperatures need to get. You (and everyone else) is crazy for living in places that it goes lower.
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