Besides the change of scenery, the biggest effect was on the roads and sidewalks. There are many small roads in my area, that have remained iced over since the snow. I have yet to see any form of salt (NaCl) used anywhere to melt the ice. I have however seen and participated in the manual breaking and removing of ice from the ground. At one of my elementary schools, the principal all the teachers and myself, spend our free period breaking ice and shoveling it off of the concrete playground (in suits). The ice really makes the morning commute a pain and shows me one area in which Japan lacks a simple, common western solution to a problem (NaCl).
This was too funny for me to not take a picture. The jacket belongs to one of my 5th grade students.
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