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Snowing
2009-02-10
My home town in Japan actually has a snow, but it's only 2 or 3 days in a season, and it just sheets on the ground, so I had never had such a heavy snow in my life.
I would often have a heavy snow during living in Maryland. The apartment where I lived in was surrounded by trees, so the scenery covered with snow was really beautiful, it was as if I were in ski resort.
I suddenly remembered the lesson from my mom as follow.
"Don't take snow easy!"
She was born and grew up in the region where is famous for a great snowfall area in Japan. According to her, she had a heavy snow enough to a whole house was buried by it easily in the winter, and then blackout caused by heavy snow was usual thing.
She told me also to remove snow as often as possible, or we would be closed in the house. To be honest, I couldn't imagine how snow give us an effect at that time.
Mom... you were right.
I saw cars were buried by thick snow..... It was the first time to see such a sight in my life. Can you see these cars in this picture?
私の地元は確かに雪は降るけど１シーズンに２日か３日うっすらと積もる程度。そんなにひどい降雪ではない。在米中はよく雪が降ったなぁ。こんな感じの積雪は今まで経験したことがなかった。当時住んでいたアパートは樹木に囲まれているので、雪の日はさながらスキー場にいるみたいだった。私はふと、母の教えを思い出した。
「雪を甘くみるんじゃない！」
日本有数の豪雪地帯で生まれ育った母曰く、冬は家1軒埋まる程の雪が降り、雪の断線による停電はいつものことだと。で、雪かきをまめにしろ。さもなければ閉じ込められるぞとも。正直、私は雪がどんなものかその時は想像できなかった。
なるほど。お母さん、貴女は正しかった。
車、埋まってるよ。
