Heavy snow blanketed the Seoul metropolitan area yesterday, causing traffic chaos on the first work day of the new year and delaying or canceling scores of flights.
According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, the snow that began falling early in the morning piled up around the nation's central regions, with more than 25.2 centimeters accumulating in Seoul, as of noon yesterday.
The snow in Seoul was the heaviest in 41 years and second heaviest since the nation started observing snowfall back in 1937, the weather agency added.
Albert told me it was snowing in Beijing. The storm was supposed to lose power over the Yellow Sea but that didn't happen. Luckily, the night before, I went out and had bulgogi (marinated beef stew mixed with rice) for dinner, and also did some grocery shopping on the way home. My apartment has always been well-stocked with food in case of weather emergencies (and also because I don't think going out in cold weather is a good idea). Also, this is a "work from home" week for me, so staying inside in my relatively warm apartment was an obvious choice.
Here are some photos...
Above: the view outside my apartment.My apartment has a very small population -- there are about six units in total. Everyone else left for work earlier in the day, so it was very quiet. I went downstairs to see if the postal delivery person managed to make it through the snow. Because everyone left for work, the front door was left alone during the snow and it was partially blocked. I had to work hard to get it open.
Needless to say, nobody got their mail yesterday or today.
Needless to say, nobody got their mail yesterday or today.
Above: My apartment building's front door -- trapped by snow. The snow had briefly stopped when I went downstairs, so I got to open the front door and take some photos of my street during this brief pause. Shortly after these photos, it continued to snow even more. The final measurement I took later that night was 10.5 inches (27 centimeters) of snow.
Above: My side street, during a small pause halfway through the snowfall.
Above: This car was definitely not going anywhere. By the end of the day, it was 100% covered with snow.And here's a little video I took shortly before the photos:
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Holy crap that's a lot of snow! It snowed in Daegu when I was in Australia, but I am not too sad that I missed it. I'm sick of the cold!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm sick of it too.
ReplyDeleteWhere I'm from (Vancouver), the snow never stays for more than a day, but last year, we had a snowstorm just like this; it was also a "once in a century" deal, and it was similar to what we just had. It. Was. Annoying.
Never thought I'd go through two "once in a century" snowfalls almost exactly a year apart. Can't wait until I bolt out of here after winter camp for my vacation to Hong Kong (where I was born and where my relatives live). It's not exactly warm there due to windchill, but at least it's not snowing!