I just felt I should inform you all, as you might still suppose that I'm still living like the eskimos. Luckily I'm not. The winter put up quite a fight though. At the beginning of March I invited some teacher friends of mine over to my house for some dinner, and at the time there was an unbelievable snow-storm going on. Then, the following day, lasting for almost a whole month uninterrupted we had beautiful skies and lovely sunshine. It immediately started getting warmer. Occaisionally their were heavy snowfalls lasting a few hours, but by that time the weather had become too warm for the snow to settle.
As soon as that last big blizzard had occured at the beginning of March, I began to see big snow....digging type machines that began to churn up the packed, tall, layered snow on the sides of the roads and throw it out of another tube into a truck to be sent away. It was almost like they knew the snow had finished and they could begin to clear the most of it away.
It took a long time for some of the snow to melt. The last school I was at before the break-up of term still had a knee-deep level of snow on their sports ground towards the end of March. (A very clever idea by the football team coach/English teacher was to make them struggle/run from one set of goalposts to the other, as a way of slushing up the snow and making it disapear quicker!)
Even now there are still bits of snow, but the majority remains on the tops of the mountains, and they look beautiful on a clear spring day!
The sides of the roads in Nanyo! As high as the walls!
Everywhere in Yamagata, you could find massive hills of snow in the corners of car parks and road sides, as proud evidence of the massive snows we survived.
You can see the layers of the snowfall.
A beautiful sunny day, mountains covered with clouds and houses with a pretty coating of snow that look like sugar icing roofs on a gingerbread house!
The view of Nanyo, from Nanyo Skypark.
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