Ok- so i don't know if i did something right, but suddenly I am able to blog again from my own computer. We will see how long this lasts. The only downside is that all of the commands are in Chinese, and the Chinese blogging vocabularly as of yet eludes me. :)
So hopefully i can post on here more often!
Snow- last week i went to church on Sunday, expecting it to be warm (3 degrees) as it had been all week. Upon leavning church we discovered an inch of snow. That kept coming and coming. By Monday a half-meter of snow had fallen. Then a true Siberian wind picked up. I know that technically, geographically, I live in the Siberian climate region, but i had never experienced a cold sustained wind like that one. The blizzard went for two whole days, and the buildings of YUST were humming and resounding like a giant teapot at boil, wind and snow pouring through the cracks of these badly sealed buildings....
Thursday and Friday got warmer again, and today 5 inches of beautiful fresh soft snow have fallen, and everything is back to winter. It doesn't feel like March though- i have experienced so many weird climactic shifts this winter.
One thing i can say- Yanji is going to be a mess when all this coal-dust stained snow melts in a city with extremely pour drainage, and a fine soil that turns into the most gooey sort of mud upon contanct with any sort of moisture.
That's what i have to look forward to, but for now i will enjoy the snow!
So hopefully i can post on here more often!
Snow- last week i went to church on Sunday, expecting it to be warm (3 degrees) as it had been all week. Upon leavning church we discovered an inch of snow. That kept coming and coming. By Monday a half-meter of snow had fallen. Then a true Siberian wind picked up. I know that technically, geographically, I live in the Siberian climate region, but i had never experienced a cold sustained wind like that one. The blizzard went for two whole days, and the buildings of YUST were humming and resounding like a giant teapot at boil, wind and snow pouring through the cracks of these badly sealed buildings....
Thursday and Friday got warmer again, and today 5 inches of beautiful fresh soft snow have fallen, and everything is back to winter. It doesn't feel like March though- i have experienced so many weird climactic shifts this winter.
One thing i can say- Yanji is going to be a mess when all this coal-dust stained snow melts in a city with extremely pour drainage, and a fine soil that turns into the most gooey sort of mud upon contanct with any sort of moisture.
That's what i have to look forward to, but for now i will enjoy the snow!
posted by Thor @ 12:23
1 Comments:
At 4:25 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Thor,
Glad to hear that you were finally able to get online. Sounds like winter is having one final howl before the beginning of spring. Stay warm and medidate on the following verse: Isaiah 61:11: "For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations." Pretty exciting stuff - chat soon.
Much love,
Eric
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