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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: it's snowing!!! |
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yeah! |
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Natalia
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:44 am Post subject: |
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!!!!!!!!!
I've spent the last hour hanging out my window like a moron.
It doesn't snow where I come from. |
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saybanana
Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Location: LA
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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There were some lightning and thunder earlier. Then heavy snow. Wow, I learned something new. There can be a snowy thunderstorm. I lived in a warm place my whole life, so snow is mesmorizing to me. Ill get tired of it after a while. Yes, im looking off and on out of my window too. |
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rednblack
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Location: In a quiet place
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Been snowing heavily in Gae-yang, Incheon since about 9.30. People are on the street taking photos and throwing snowballs. A beautiful sight. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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No snow to the east of seoul though. |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Man, it doesn't show signs of stopping.
It's up to your knees out there.
Three HUGE bags of road salt, not enough. Saw my first stupid-driver-trick of the winter. Woman comes up in a small car, no chains, and I believe no snowtires either. I'm waving "no! go back!" She doesn't care, doesn't even look. She gets up to this very steep incline right next to my house, and as her wheels are spinning, screeching, and she's making zero progress up a slope that's even hard to WALK UP... her car slides SIDEWAYS into a steel handrail for some steps beside the road. And breaking it. What a clatter! I'm tempted to go out again and photograph the damage she just caused. But baby, it's cold outside. |
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SarcasmKills

Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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make it stop!
had to walk home from the bar... met up with some random koreans, started some snow fights with cops, stopped at every 3rd convienience store for beer and just got home..
good times but screw this snow shit |
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Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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I hope every night is like last night until April. |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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The snow continues to fall (kinda) up here in the great and vasty tundra of Northern�Seoul. The main roads appear to be traversable by car once again, though I believe a sled or one's ass is still the preferred means of transportation on our steep spur roads, side roads and alleys. The hills were dotted with small people sledding & snowball fighting late last night and again this morning. On a slippery 20-minute stumble down the slope and back, I saw one couple sorting out a dead battery, evidence of a small collision between a decending car and a parked car, and trashcans knocked over by hungry hounds, plastic bags ripped open, their contents dragged all over the snow. I found a bag NaCl half-buried in the snow and lugged it home to replenish my nearly-depleted grit bin.
The smashed-in handrail I mentioned in my previous post:
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flakfizer

Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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I made sure to hurry on down to the park before the snow melted off the trees and before the ground snow had been befouled by too many pedestrians.
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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: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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For the record: There is NOT snow everywhere on the peninsula.
I left Seoul by express bus at 1 pm this afternoon, heading 4.5 hours due south to the southernmost valleys, and while the snow covered trees and mountains were wonderful, I saw the snow progressively disappear the further the trip went, and by the time I arrived in town there was NO snow on the ground and only about 10% on surrounding mountains. |
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Rey Mysterio 619
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Location: 619 Connect
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: |
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VanIslander wrote: |
For the record: There is NOT snow everywhere on the peninsula.
I left Seoul by express bus at 1 pm this afternoon, heading 4.5 hours due south to the southernmost valleys, and while the snow covered trees and mountains were wonderful, I saw the snow progressively disappear the further the trip went, and by the time I arrived in town there was NO snow on the ground and only about 10% on surrounding mountains. |
Well, thanks for that, spud. I feel dirty now... |
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: |
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according to the Korea Times Seoul got about 12.5 cm of snow or about 5", not a bad amount.
at least it was a wet snow, the streets were fine this afternoon |
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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: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Rey Mysterio 619 wrote: |
Well, thanks for that, spud. I feel dirty now... |
Spud? You just joined so I assume you're a newbie: Korean media and some regulars at Dave's have in the past made sweeping generalizations about weather "across the country" that just hasn't applied to Geoje, where I was, and to the southernmost central peninsula area I am at now.
(And don't get me started about the "yellow sand storms" that supposedly "sweep the nation" in springtime.)
Just noting the diversity. And reflecting the life hereabouts.
No need for you to wash up because of it, though you may have other reasons to, especially if you're a sock, Mysterio. |
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crazylemongirl

Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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View from lunch at the Intercontiental today.
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