China Snow
A little over a week ago a friend of mine flew into Guangzhou, found his uncomfortably upscale hotel, and went over to the adjacent Starbucks to Skype me. We compared notes, his surroundings in Guangzhou (aka "Canton"), and mine seven years ago in Beijing, and used Google Earth to find the two train stations in Guangzhou and orient both of us. He caught a flight the next day to Hainan Island for the meetings that were the purpose of his trip. Two days ago he returned from Hainan to Guangzhou, and then returned to Europe.
Today a fifth of a million people are stuck at the train station less than a kilometer from where my friend was sitting nine days ago, due to snow. Another half of a million people are stuck elsewhere in Guangzhou. Snow in the south of China. The worst since the KMT was forced to flee to Formosa.
Read Xinhua and be amazed. Utterly amazed.
Comments
The snow isn't the problem, it is the ice. Still, damn odd for Southern China and yet there is no serious efforts to address climate change.
Posted by: Hawise | January 31, 2008 09:12 AM