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On the 12th, when the heavy snow warning went into effect, cars on the way home from work ran turtles on various roads in southern Gyeonggi Province.
There wasn’t much snowfall and the temperature rose slightly, and the snow melted quickly, so a week ago, the’going back home’ did not repeat, but some roads with strong snowstorms caused severe traffic jams.
Jeong-mo, 32, who uses a car to commute from Suwon to Uijeongbu, it took four hours, nearly three times more than usual, to leave work on this day.
He said, “It takes an hour and a half if I ride the highway, but as the snow continues to fly, I have a more severe congestion than usual,” he said. “I was tired of driving, so I stopped by the rest area in the middle.”
The cars on the road in Gwanggyo New Town in Suwon, covered with snowy snow, also slowed down at 20 to 30 km/h and could not speed up.
The subway station attracted more passengers than usual.
Yumo (31), an office worker who usually commutes by car because of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), said that she left her car at work because she did not know.
He said, “I got on the subway because of a nightmare I couldn’t move on the road because of the heavy snowfall last Wednesday,” he said. “I have to take the original bus, but I plan to go to the subway as close as possible to my house.”
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It has been confirmed that there are currently no human accidents caused by snow in southern Gyeonggi Province.
The road control section in the province is one of the three-way intersection of the substation in Sanseong-dong, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-Namhansanseong-ro (3.2km).
Concerns about the recurrence of the traffic disruption on the way home from work, each local government started snow removal work early on.
Gyeonggi-do started the first phase of the snow removal emergency service system from 3 pm, and put in about 700 public officials in provinces and cities and counties and 465 snow removal equipment such as excavators.
Doo said that snow removal vehicles and equipment were placed in 116 areas of vulnerable snowy roads such as Hyeoncheon-dong and Siheung Daeya-dong, Goyang, and strengthened patrols on back roads and pass roads where freezing is expected.
Governor Lee Jae-myeong held an emergency video countermeasure meeting with 31 mayors and counties in the disaster situation room of Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of that day, saying, “Please promptly perform snow removal to minimize damage to the residents.” did.
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Seongnam City, which was criticized for violating the third-stage emergency duty manual during heavy snowfall on the 6th, and inducing traffic disruption on the way to commute by performing snow removal work with only a few personnel, mobilized 3,000 people and put 137 equipment into the snow removal manpower on the day.
At that time, the amount of snowfall in Seongnam was 14.6cm, and the third-stage response was the principle, but the city mobilized 224 people (excluding 78 leased drivers) and 123 snow removal equipment, far less than the first-stage response (1,106 people).
Currently, heavy snow warnings have been issued in eight cities and counties in the province, including Seongnam, Yongin, Gwangju, and Hanam. Heavy snow warning is issued when it is predicted that more than 5cm of snow will accumulate over 24 hours.
According to the Metropolitan Meteorological Office, the amount of snow that fell on this day was 9.5 cm in Siheung, 7.7 cm in Gunpo, 6.8 cm in Gwangmyeong, 6.6 cm in Gwacheon, and 6.4 cm in Seongnam.
An official from the Meteorological Administration said, “When driving, you must keep enough distance between vehicles and drive at a speed so that there is no accident damage.”
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