We had a four-foot snow drift outside our front door the other day. Losing power is a major fear. We have no fireplace and rely on electric power, so I'm not sure what we would do. The other thing that could knock out power is an earthquake. We have those occasionally in Japan.

C'mon March!

Bloody Hell! That's a lot of snow! How do you get to work? I guess they've got some system worked out.

In Taiwan the backhoes are all out clearing landslides the second a typhoon passes - stuff that would takes weeks or months to do in Australia - is it something like that there?