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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
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I guess it would depend on what kind of person I was stuck in an elevator with  |
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fortysixyou
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Daylight savings. Could save energy in the Korean summer. The sun comes up at light 5am, and goes down around 7:30 pm. Imagine if that were 7am to 9:30pm how much energy would be saved.
Then again, I don't know. Koreans tend to have the lights on all the time, regardless of the amount of light coming in the windows. They tend to leave the windows open with the heat on and the door wide open with the A/C cranked up.
This country is in an energy crisis, but it doesn't seem to care. Or maybe the government needs to start a massive energy-savings propaganda campaign. Public service announcements etc. Oh, and a massive stop littering campaign. And less spitting. |
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seala70
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:04 am Post subject: |
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Also, Chuseok last year was exactly like this year in terms of weather.
1 more hour, time to get some SUN!!! |
As I remember, at least in the northern half of the country, last year's Chuseok weather was nothing like this year's Chuseok which was quite nice. Last year was miserable and rainy. It dumped 300 mm of rain. I remember because I went to Seoul for Chuseok to visit a family and the normally 90 minute bus ride took me over 3 hours due to massive flooding.
"Two people went missing and thousands of homes flooded when a record rainstorm hit parts of South Korea during a national holiday. The storm on Tuesday � the start of the three-day 2010 Chuseok harvest festival � dumped almost 300 millimetres of rain on parts of Seoul, an all-time high for late September since records began in 1907." |
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seala70
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| It's normal for the first couple weeks of September. But, let's hope and pray that this summer is FINALLY over. Enough is enough! |
I'm with you. Enough is enough. Thankfully, it seems that by this Monday, temperatures will drop down to the low-mid twenties. Anybody who wants 30 degree temperatures to drag into November is nuts. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:39 am Post subject: |
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I was just watching the news and saw the extent to which KEPCO messed up........
They had the hot weather prediction for that day but they had already scaled down output to late-Fall expected levels (to save themselves production costs?).
They knew they would have to turn off power in certain areas to keep power on in other areas.
They chose poorer areas to cut power.
They went ahead and switched off the power without any warning.
Lots of people were stuck in elevators for an hour or more.
There's a lot of anger out there at the attitude of KEPCO over this one. They haven't even issued an apology. |
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brickabrack
Joined: 17 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| seala70 wrote: |
| KingMomo wrote: |
Also, Chuseok last year was exactly like this year in terms of weather.
1 more hour, time to get some SUN!!! |
As I remember, at least in the northern half of the country, last year's Chuseok weather was nothing like this year's Chuseok which was quite nice. Last year was miserable and rainy. It dumped 300 mm of rain. I remember because I went to Seoul for Chuseok to visit a family and the normally 90 minute bus ride took me over 3 hours due to massive flooding.
"Two people went missing and thousands of homes flooded when a record rainstorm hit parts of South Korea during a national holiday. The storm on Tuesday � the start of the three-day 2010 Chuseok harvest festival � dumped almost 300 millimetres of rain on parts of Seoul, an all-time high for late September since records began in 1907." |
I'm south of Seoul. It rained everyday, but Tuesday during my break.
Last year seemed a little more wet though. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| seala70 wrote: |
| sojusucks wrote: |
| It's normal for the first couple weeks of September. But, let's hope and pray that this summer is FINALLY over. Enough is enough! |
I'm with you. Enough is enough. Thankfully, it seems that by this Monday, temperatures will drop down to the low-mid twenties. Anybody who wants 30 degree temperatures to drag into November is nuts. |
I'd be happy with that temperature. Better than the winter, anyway. |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:53 am Post subject: |
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I'm south of Seoul. It rained everyday, but Tuesday during my break.
Last year seemed a little more wet though. |
In some areas it was 70mm/hour intensity! Hundreds or even thousands of homes were flooded in and around Seoul. Didn't you see the news?
PIL live on a hillside and a mountain river appeared right next to their house. I thought it would either wash down the building or flood the whole house. Neither happened luckily but the water dumped a lot of mud on their concrete covered yard so I spent the next day helping my FIL clean it. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| anyways there were some bad repercussions to them doing that yesterday. Many people reported that they had issues with internet, people were actually trapped in elevators for an hour or more!, and other things. i thought it was pretty funny though lol |
funny for you maybe, but I was one of those people stuck in an elevator, trust me it wasnt fun |
Man, that sucks! So sorry to hear that you were stuck in an elevator. You know, they really should have planned ahead and given us some advanced warning. People are pissed! Heads should roll!! |
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ssuprnova
Joined: 17 Dec 2010
Location: Saigon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I was just watching the news and saw the extent to which KEPCO messed up........
They had the hot weather prediction for that day but they had already scaled down output to late-Fall expected levels (to save themselves production costs?).
They knew they would have to turn off power in certain areas to keep power on in other areas.
They chose poorer areas to cut power.
They went ahead and switched off the power without any warning.
Lots of people were stuck in elevators for an hour or more.
There's a lot of anger out there at the attitude of KEPCO over this one. They haven't even issued an apology. |
This sounds retarded.
Not that I'm surprised, it's Korea after all. |
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seala70
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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This sounds retarded.
Not that I'm surprised, it's Korea after all. |
So retarded. Gag me with a spoon. |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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it would help if Koreans realized that modern weather forecasting now beats what they read in the 1900 Korean Farmers Almanac which they all still seem to follow.
It doesn't matter what the weather actually is, or what it's forecast to be, what matter is what the Farmers Almanac says.
Never mind the effects of global warming in the last 2 decades either.
Unexpected mid Sept weather, energy demand?
every single Kepco exec should be thrown off a cliff.
even the Korean meteorological assoc was forecasting unseasonably hot summer weather thru mid Sept. That was back in early August!
summers absolutely suck here, not helped by Korean cement building design which soak up heat like a sponge. I'm thrilled that I can take a long summer vacation. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| rainism wrote: |
| it would help if Koreans realized that modern weather forecasting now beats what they read in the 1900 Korean Farmers Almanac which they all still seem to follow. |
Many Canadian farmers swear by it, the Canadian version of it. |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| rainism wrote: |
| it would help if Koreans realized that modern weather forecasting now beats what they read in the 1900 Korean Farmers Almanac which they all still seem to follow. |
Many Canadian farmers swear by it, the Canadian version of it. |
I'd expect a bit more from national power company execs though.
no surprise though. Don't many people here repeat ad nauseaum how Korea is a nation of farmers, even in the present day? |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| rainism wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| rainism wrote: |
| it would help if Koreans realized that modern weather forecasting now beats what they read in the 1900 Korean Farmers Almanac which they all still seem to follow. |
Many Canadian farmers swear by it, the Canadian version of it. |
I'd expect a bit more from national power company execs though.
no surprise though. Don't many people here repeat ad nauseaum how Korea is a nation of farmers, even in the present day? |
So you're saying KEPCO relies on the Farmer's Almanac? Where is this mentioned? |
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