312, January 8th, 10:00.
Tang Li stood on the balcony, looking at the helicopters in the sky, feeling a sense of emotion.
Despite encountering extreme weather, humanity's centuries of technological accumulation were not so easily defeated.
The heavy snow had fallen for fifteen days and fifteen nights.
Three nights prior, the snowstorm finally stopped.
However, the accumulated snow had reached an average depth of 15 meters, burying everything up to the sixth floor!
Due to the inability to clear it during the snowfall, all roads in City A were covered by thick snow.
And with such deep snow, clearing it was not easy.
Therefore, the authorities found an alternative approach, using helicopters to transport relief supplies and contacting residents in various areas to dig passages beneath the snow.
It wasn't that no one had considered transportation directly on the snow surface.
But the snow on the upper layers was too soft; even walking on it posed a risk of sinking, let alone heavy machinery.
Transporting supplies on the snow surface was simply impossible.
Moreover, although the heavy snow had stopped, the extreme cold season still had several months to go. The city couldn't afford to come to a standstill every time it snowed.
Thus, the City A authorities decided to mobilize the entire city's efforts to dig underground passages!
This way, not only would the snow on the ground not need to be cleared this time, but they would also be prepared for future snowfalls.
Snow falling from the sky, but underground passages would remain accessible.
Furthermore, with the protection of the snow, the temperature underground would not be as frigid as on the surface.
The only concern was ensuring proper ventilation to prevent oxygen depletion underground.
The construction of these underground passages was not a significant undertaking.
By direct manual excavation and using low temperatures to solidify the snow with water, stable underground passages could be formed.
City A also had a subway system connecting various districts, greatly facilitating the excavation of these passages.
By simply digging underground passages from subway entrances and exits, they could quickly connect residential areas throughout the city.
With the mobilization of all city residents, the speed of digging underground passages was remarkably fast.
In just two days, the underground passage connecting Tang Li's residential compound to the nearest subway entrance was completed.
"Xiao Li, the underground passage from our compound to the subway station is ready. You can go to the exchange whenever you want," Zhang Yan's voice came from outside the door.
"I know, thank you, Uncle Zhang."
Although Tang Li already knew the underground passage would be ready today, she still thanked Zhang Yan for personally coming to inform her.
Upon receiving this news, Tang Li went to the living room and removed the coal from the burning carbon heater. She also retrieved the hydrogen canisters from the kitchen and the lithium batteries from the bedroom, storing them in her spatial dimension.
Over the past ten days, Tang Li's home had undergone a significant transformation.
In the kitchen, all sorts of kitchenware had disappeared, replaced by two steel racks. Each rack held two layers of five hydrogen canisters, totaling twenty.
Some were already used up, some were yet to be used, having been replicated from her spatial dimension, and some were currently connected to the wall-mounted gas fireplace and burning.
With the combined effect of the gas fireplace and the carbon heater, even though the external temperature remained below minus 50 degrees Celsius, the temperature inside Tang Li's home never dropped below minus 20 degrees Celsius.
The bedroom, on the other hand, was even more exaggerated.
Tang Li had custom-made a steel frame to fit the dimensions of the bedroom.
Now, the entire bedroom was enclosed by this steel frame. On the outside of the frame, against the bedroom walls, ceiling, and floor, three layers of cotton quilts were attached, along with electric blankets that were kept on day and night.
In the bedroom, the wardrobe had doubled in size, with each now holding 18 lithium batteries, one in use and one as a spare.
A light bulb hung from the ceiling via the steel frame, illuminating the bedroom.
The bed and cabinets inside the room were placed on the quilts on the floor. Fortunately, she had her spatial dimension, otherwise, such a large undertaking would have required numerous trips back and forth.
The room had an electric oil heater, and the bed also had an electric blanket. The ceiling light bulb and the electric blankets covering the surrounding walls, ceiling, and floor were all powered by lithium batteries.
As a result, Tang Li's bedroom was even warmer, with the temperature consistently maintained above 0 degrees Celsius.
When Tang Li slept, she would also replicate various hot water bottles and warming pans from her spatial dimension to place under the covers, replacing them when they cooled down.
In this life, Tang Li never experienced being woken up by the cold in the middle of the night, unlike in her previous life.
However, Tang Li was about to go out now.
To prevent these coals, hydrogen, and lithium batteries from causing uncontrolled fires in her absence, Tang Li decided to store them in her spatial dimension first.
It would likely take a considerable amount of time to restore the current temperature upon her return.
Precisely because of this, over the next few months, even though she could travel to the supermarket via the underground passages, Tang Li would not be going out frequently.
Dressed in the extreme cold-resistant clothing she had purchased online before the catastrophe, Tang Li stepped out of her home.