Travellers describe China chaos (Paging Al Gore)

bbc ^ | 1/28/2008 | bbc

[milwguy]

The heaviest snow in decades is continuing to cause transport chaos throughout China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. BBC News website readers have described their experiences of travelling across southern China.

It is estimated that 500,000 people are stranded in the southern city of Guangzhou as they wait for train services to resume. Paul Surtees was among the crowds on Monday.

The railway stations in Guangzhou are a scene of horror, with countless thousands of desperate and freezing people besieging them. There are only a dozen toilets, so people relieve themselves on the station concourse. I saw human faeces. The amount of mess is indescribable.

[milwguy]

Of course, just another example of Climate Change destroying our planet. Speaking of 'Climate Change' the wind chill here in Milwaukee is -35f right now.

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[MoMagic]

Right. Snow up to your bum, cold enough to freeze the nuts off a brass monkey and still we hear “global warming”.

[2banana]

Those people inside the station daren't leave for fear of losing their chance to travel. But trains aren't going. So people are literally living there and have been for days. Whole families have camped out there setting out newspapers on the floor and settling down. The huge expanse of the station concourse is a sea of bodies.

The wonders of socialism...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” wind chill here in Milwaukee is -35f right”
I used to live on the corner of Lafayette and Summit. The lake was just across the park. I can remember going to work when the wind chill was 65 below!

[SengirV]

Well there you have it. Al Gore would call that PROOF of global warming.

[justa-hairyape]

Makes Katrina look like a walk in the park. This is some very serious stuff going on over there. Could lead to massive disease outbreaks. Mass Starvation. Now I see why the Chinese have deployed half a million military personnel. Wonder if we are eventually gonna see bare store shelves here as all our Chinese made stuff is late too arrive. Could cause economic problems here and globally.

[justa-hairyape]

Wasn't there another thread about the Asian markets tanking today ? Wonder if that is related ?

[maine-iac7]

The heaviest snow in decades is continuing to cause transport chaos ...

Pretty damn bad in Calif., OR, WA, ID and UT for 3 days and counting too - all but unprecedented

[maine-iac7]

I used to live on the corner of Lafayette and Summit

lived "on the corner" - glad to hear you're off the streets

[Centurion2000]

wow .. that sux

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

You could only live on the corner now, cuz the house is gone. Lew Alcindor lived a half block away on Summit. Nice guy.

[milwguy]

Would rather be standing on a corner in winslow arizona right now.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

It’s 29 degrees in Winslow, but it feels like 21! Warmer than Cleveland though!

[fweingart]

“State Officials Travel to China to Sell Georgia” -Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

If the poop is frozen does it still smell?