A Fukuokan's Notes from Sapporo

Fukuoka is experiencing the coldest winter for the first time in these 21 years, according to him.↓

The temperature has been sub-zero and we even saw snow. Even though the amount was only a little (people in heavy snow areas would laugh at us for saying it is snowing) , due to 2 cm-depth of snow covered some areas of Fukuoka, everything has stopped here. Motorways were closed and there was no one in shops and on streets, apart from some poor tourists who happened to be in this town at the worst timing and people working there.

On top of that, we are supposed to save electricity, which, in my case, means we are supposed to forego electric heating, and electric heating is only heating available in my flat. How could I do? Answer: simply turning off the air-con.

Every time I open my Internet browser, there will be warning about Setsudan, showing forecasts about consumption of electricity to power generation capacity of Kyushu Electric Power.co..

Today’s ratio reached 96%, near full of the capacity.  What would happen, if the ratio reached, or overreached 100%?  I didn’t imagine I would see an Ice Age at home!

…Could I blog at this particular moment, or turn on my computer in the first place?