[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[krb]

Bush’s fault.

[the invisib1e hand]

nothing like a tank for snow control.

[OCC]

How exactly do tanks de-ice a roadway?

[2banana]

Same tanks used in Tienanmen Square?

[familyop]

...tanks? LOL (laughing out loud)! That’s one way to do it.

I live in a remote place at high altitude in the mountains with roads covered with ice for months each year. Hankook winter tires work very well here. :-)

[bigbob]

Let’s export snowplows

[Incorrigible]

Loved the title of that last thread though...

Battle with heaven - therein lies endless joy

[mamelukesabre]

300,000 soldiers to shovel snow?

I don’t understand this. How is it the chinese are this pathetic in a snow storm, yet they are stealing all our manufacturing jobs like there’s no tomorrow?

[Solitar]

Chinese response to their “50-year winter storm” was better than New Orleans response to their “50-year tropical storm.”

[OPS4]

Global warming alert from al gore! the snow and ice are figments of the imagination.

[Solitar]

In Anhui Province January temperatures near to just below freezing are average and thus ice storms would also be far more common than the media is making them out to be.
From Wikipedia article on Anhui Province

Anhui is quite diverse topographically. The north of the province is part of the North China Plain while the north-central areas are part of the Huai He River watershed. Both of these regions are very flat and densely populated. The land becomes more uneven further south, with the Dabie Mountains occupying much of southwestern Anhui and a series of hills and ranges cutting through southeastern Anhui. The Yangtze River finds its way through south Anhui in between these two mountainous regions. The highest peak in Anhui is Lotus Peak, part of the Huangshan Mountains in southeastern Anhui. It has an altitude of 1873 m.
Major rivers include the Huai He in the north and the Yangtze in the south. The largest lake is Lake Chaohu in the center of the province, with an area of about 800 km. The southeastern part of the province near the Yangtze River has many lakes as well.
As with topography, the province differs in climate from north to south. The north is more temperate and has more clearcut seasons. January temperatures average at around -1 to 2°C north of the Huai He, and 0 to 3°C south of the Huai He; in July temperatures average 27°C or above.

[fella]

I don’t see any dozer blades on those tanks just a lot of people with shovels behind them.