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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| fidel wrote: |
| Hell, don't you work at a high school? At this time of year aren't your classes drastically shortened, cancelled or reduced to watching videos or playing games? Mine certainly are. 40 minute classes, seventh cancelled, no classes personally me for me next week, students only coming in until 12 and starting an hour late. It's as if winter vacation has already begun! |
Hey Fidel, are you still in the Republic? 
Season's Greetings!
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Right back at you Guru
Still here, two months and counting. Just had Asian Tigers in for a quote for shipping the household back home. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| for all of you in Korea's snow belt, if you were to walk outside and stand in level ground, who much snow is on the groung were you live? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: |
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snowing?
no it isn't
not around here |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
| for all of you in Korea's snow belt, if you were to walk outside and stand in level ground, who much snow is on the groung were you live? |
'Bout up to my knees. 
.....and still falling. |
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tweeterdj
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Location: Gwangju
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Mokpo is covered in snow too!! What's going on???? When we signed up to live here I checked all the weather info i could, and they all said Mokpo gets snow MAYBE twice a year, and it's been snowy for a couple weeks now. What's the deal?!?! Makes me feel more at home I suppose...
ps last night the temp with the windchill was -23!! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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House-dwellers are now being required by law to sweep the snow and ice from outside our homes or be held responsible for other people's injuries.
I'd seen the big, public-hectoring banners about this for a month or so before the first snow hit. And I initially misinterpreted "It's the responsibility of residents to keep the area in front of their house clean" as some sort of generic "Clean Jongno-gu, Happy Jongno-gu" campaign... and perhaps a telegraphing of the fact that the district trash collectors would henceforth only be removing trash & recyclables and no longer tidying up the streets in front of houses.
The gu office has positioned stores of salt (bags in boxes) along the mountain roads for residents to use when road maintenance crews don't arrive after a snowstorm in time for the morning commute. But people will ransack and hoard the salt, and the dong office won't check or replenish supplies. In the past when I've called to have them to deliver more, they're either fresh out or say they can't make it because the roads are too slick!  So I've resorted to pilfering a bag or two myself as soon as I know they've restocked.
Interesting? No. On-topic? Yes. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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So I've resorted to pilfering a bag or two myself as soon as I know they've restocked.
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You pilfer salt and then have the gall to call me a shipwreck in progress  I'll bet you eat Santa's cookies, too. Ahoy...ho! ho! ho! to you matey, indeed.
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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I got a good chuckle walking downtown to the bank this morning around 11. All these great big Korandos and Tiburons and other makes of 4wd...creeping down the road like they were driving across a sheet of glass, scared of a bit of snow.  |
It isn't that funny when you're a Canadian stuck in traffic behind them.
What's funny, though, is how TV news speak of this as if it was a natural disaster. And to think they want the winter olympics.
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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It isn't that funny when you're a Canadian stuck in traffic behind them. |
No kidding. I'm Alaskan, but there's no WAY I'm driving in this. It's just a matter of time before some ajosshi comes flying along thinking that 4WD is gonna save him on ice and BAM! ...my little Hyundai is toast (not to mention me).
Besides... it'd take an hour to dig out my car and I don't want to work that hard (I'm am on vacation). |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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It isn't that funny when you're a Canadian stuck in traffic behind them. |
No kidding. I'm Alaskan, but there's no WAY I'm driving in this. It's just a matter of time before some ajosshi comes flying along thinking that 4WD is gonna save him on ice and BAM! ...my little Hyundai is toast (not to mention me).
Besides... it'd take an hour to dig out my car and I don't want to work that hard (I'm am on vacation). |
My students always love my story of having to jump out of the second floor window one morning to dig out a path to open the front door (179cm of snow in 36 hours). We spent the afternoon walking on the snowbank on top of the parking lot, poking broom handles in the snow to find the cars. University classes were canceled for almost 2 weeks. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| My students always love my story of having to jump out of the second floor window one morning to dig out a path to open the front door (179cm of snow in 36 hours). We spent the afternoon walking on the snowbank on top of the parking lot, poking broom handles in the snow to find the cars. University classes were canceled for almost 2 weeks. |
Now, that's cool.
I did finally dig out my car a couple of hours ago because I was worried that the weight of the snow would do more damage to the already senstitive suspention system.
My Korean neighbors probably thought I was nuts because I was clearing the snow off the top of my car & dumping it on the ground next to it, building up the bank of snow around the car even higher so that it's absolutely sure I won't be driving it any time soon.
Of course, I then confirmed their suspicions by jumping into a snow bank.
Ahhh, I love winter. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Of course, I then confirmed their suspicions by jumping into a snow bank.
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But did you do the important thing and make a snow angel? |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Of course, I then confirmed their suspicions by jumping into a snow bank.
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But did you do the important thing and make a snow angel? |
Well, yeah... isn't that a given? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| krats1976 wrote: |
Of course, I then confirmed their suspicions by jumping into a snow bank.
Ahhh, I love winter. [/color] |
Snow bank? Where? Draw me a map and I'm there. Haven't seen one of those since my last winter in Canada nearly 10 years ago. |
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