Biggest Tokyo snowfall in 45 years
Feb 16, 2014, 4:51 pm
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Coming to a city near you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/wo...tual.html?_r=0
(Well, not near you, specifically, but ... )
Feb 16, 2014, 5:03 pm
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Feb 16, 2014, 5:11 pm
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Feb 16, 2014, 5:25 pm
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Three days after the snow, we still require chains to drive past the homes of some nature loving residents.
The local Mcdonald's is not selling hamburgers or breakfast sandwiches on account of supply chain issues, the first time I have seen such a thing since the immediate aftermath of 311.
The local Mcdonald's is not selling hamburgers or breakfast sandwiches on account of supply chain issues, the first time I have seen such a thing since the immediate aftermath of 311.
Feb 16, 2014, 6:05 pm
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My neighbors in Yamanashi cleared their parking spaces and piled their snow up behind my car one year. I got back from the holidays and found my car completely blocked in by a solid wall of ice. I think it stayed there for about a week. Luckily, I could walk to work. I don't know what I did to incur the wrath of those guys - They really were asshat neighbors in so many ways.
Feb 16, 2014, 6:40 pm
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My neighbors in Yamanashi cleared their parking spaces and piled their snow up behind my car one year. I got back from the holidays and found my car completely blocked in by a solid wall of ice. I think it stayed there for about a week. Luckily, I could walk to work. I don't know what I did to incur the wrath of those guys - They really were asshat neighbors in so many ways.
Feb 16, 2014, 9:08 pm
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Awesome photos, NewbieRunner!
Our friends in Kofu are saying some of the local konbinis and supers have barren shelves due to no supplies coming in.
Our friends in Kofu are saying some of the local konbinis and supers have barren shelves due to no supplies coming in.
Feb 16, 2014, 11:50 pm
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My neighbors in Yamanashi cleared their parking spaces and piled their snow up behind my car one year. I got back from the holidays and found my car completely blocked in by a solid wall of ice. I think it stayed there for about a week. Luckily, I could walk to work. I don't know what I did to incur the wrath of those guys - They really were asshat neighbors in so many ways.
Feb 17, 2014, 12:10 am
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Going to be an interesting week.
Feb 17, 2014, 1:57 am
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Not that I doubt your story, but I would think that it would take mafia connections to pull a stunt like that and get away with it.
Feb 17, 2014, 3:16 am
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Feb 17, 2014, 4:40 am
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Coming to a city near you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/wo...tual.html?_r=0
(Well, not near you, specifically, but ... )
Am actually quite happy that I may have directly funded some of the cement. Good scheme!
Feb 17, 2014, 9:08 am
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Yeah, that's what I was told by a Japanese friend as well. But weather.com, wunderground, etc, don't show it.
This is potentially problematic for me as I am supposed to arrive on Thursday afternoon. Any later news? I've always wondered how I would handle being stranded for a night at Narita! If there are still taxis, I could go to a hotel in Narita town or, if it was full up, I'd be willing to taxi to Chiba station. Have been at Chiba many times but never checked out hotels there!
Edited to add: What about changing my booking to SFO-KIX-HND? If no storm, I just get in a little later, but to HND. If there is a storm, I spend the night in Osaka or Kyoto and go to Tokyo the next day.
This is potentially problematic for me as I am supposed to arrive on Thursday afternoon. Any later news? I've always wondered how I would handle being stranded for a night at Narita! If there are still taxis, I could go to a hotel in Narita town or, if it was full up, I'd be willing to taxi to Chiba station. Have been at Chiba many times but never checked out hotels there!
Edited to add: What about changing my booking to SFO-KIX-HND? If no storm, I just get in a little later, but to HND. If there is a storm, I spend the night in Osaka or Kyoto and go to Tokyo the next day.
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Feb 17, 2014, 2:22 pm
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They're saying that this won't be as bad as the last two, but they were also saying that the last huge snowstorm would most likely be main as late as two days beforehand, so really hard to say. A little nudge in the low pressure system one way or the other makes all of the distance. But I don't see any advantage of going to Osaka versus going to Tokyo. If you're screwed, you're either screwed either way, or there's not enough data to make a determination at this point.