１月２５日（木曜日）２０２４
多賀町役場から大雪警報が出ていたために、夜のうちに雪かきをしておこうと二度ほど作業をしましたが、積雪はそれほどでもなくその時は雪も止んでいたので、このまま朝になるかと思いきや、私の見込みは甘かったようです。
朝になって見ると開けておいたところから更に２０センチほど積もっていました。昨夜も朝８時の時点も道路の融雪装置は稼働していませんでした。しばらくして午前１０時ごろには水が出て、ビチョビチョ状態。地下の水道管の凍結を避けるために止めてあったのでしょう。
昔のように道の両脇に側溝があった時の方が積もった雪を放り込めるので確実によかったのですが、今は融雪装置と言っても、車の通るところだけ除雪されて家の前は水分を含んだ重い雪を各家がシャベルで両側や道の真ん中の水が出ているところに持っていくしかありません。
今は運動と思って頑張れても、この先どうなることか..... 腰を痛めないように日頃の運動の大切さを思います。
Since the town had announced a heavy snow warning, I eliminated snow several times during the night which accumulated in front of my house. It was not heavy at that time, so I thought it would not be so heavy. However, I realized that my prediction was off.
More than 8 inches of snow had accumulated from where I shoveled last night. The snow melting pipes coming from the central part of the road were not working both at night and at 8 am. After a while at around 10 am, the water was coming and some part was clear on the road but it was only the center and both sides of the road were covered with drenched snow. Maybe because of avoiding the water pipe freeze, they had stopped running the water during the night.
I prefer the past when we had a side-ditch on both sides of the road before the current road was made by taking off the ditch, because we could put accumulated snow in there so that it would melt away. It was really hard work for me to put all the wet snow on both sides of the house.
I could do this work by myself now, but I wonder how long I can do it in the future. It is important to keep my muscles well for the future.
