More Znow -> a bamboo emergenZy

Woke up this morning to more snow. What's really up with the weather? But after over two weeks with really sunny and warm weather, maybe it was payback time...

Every snow fall puts stress on the bamboo. See before and after (shaking off) resuce here below. It has been much worse, but these "grass" are obviously very resilient to stress, and always recover after having been squshed down.





But why does this little snow force closure of schools? Or cancellation of garbage pickup? Can this be a "regional" emergency (apart from for the bamboo, of course)?