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A good fortune
Feb. 5th, 2025 12:39 pmWe have had cold days since the last weekend. Today the lowest tenperature in early morning in Yokohama was 1 degrees below zero, the highest might be 9°C, the weather forecast said. (Poor garden cats! One of them kept miaowing miserably out of the window when I woke up at 6:30.) I have not been in the best physical condition, one of the problems is that I have had slight headache for a few days now. I think this might be because of the change of the atmospheric pressure :(
The garden ground was covered with the frost this morning…
And this cold air has brought much snow in various areas in Japan. Too much snow causes the disasters every winter in snowy districts, I hope nothing would happen. As for our city Yokohama, fortunately we seldom have much snow as well as big typhoon or heavy rain. In summer it's very hot here too but not the worst heat. Generally Yokohama is a safe city with few natural disasters, the only (and the worst) exception might be the big earthquake (in 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed the whole city of Yokohama) - but this is rare and unavoidable disaster.
Anyway, I often feel I'm quite fortunate to live in Yokohama, and the reason I live here is not my choice at all, just because my grandfather had built his house here before the WW2. He came from Nagano prefecture, the mountain & snowy area but now there is just our family grave there, no relatives living there. Since my chilldhood, I don't know why but I have thought I would live here when I grow up and never thought about moving to other place. And 12 years ago I have torn down the old houses (which my grandfather and my father had built) to build the new house in which I live in now. Thus I know no other place as my home. This is just by chance, and I think I'm really fortunate to live in a city without much severe weather condition.
The garden ground was covered with the frost this morning…
And this cold air has brought much snow in various areas in Japan. Too much snow causes the disasters every winter in snowy districts, I hope nothing would happen. As for our city Yokohama, fortunately we seldom have much snow as well as big typhoon or heavy rain. In summer it's very hot here too but not the worst heat. Generally Yokohama is a safe city with few natural disasters, the only (and the worst) exception might be the big earthquake (in 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed the whole city of Yokohama) - but this is rare and unavoidable disaster.
Anyway, I often feel I'm quite fortunate to live in Yokohama, and the reason I live here is not my choice at all, just because my grandfather had built his house here before the WW2. He came from Nagano prefecture, the mountain & snowy area but now there is just our family grave there, no relatives living there. Since my chilldhood, I don't know why but I have thought I would live here when I grow up and never thought about moving to other place. And 12 years ago I have torn down the old houses (which my grandfather and my father had built) to build the new house in which I live in now. Thus I know no other place as my home. This is just by chance, and I think I'm really fortunate to live in a city without much severe weather condition.