Snow wreaks havoc in north China: state media

AFP ^ | Nov 12, 2009

[george76]

Heavy snows in northern China wreaked havoc for the third day running on Thursday, killing at least eight people, stranding thousands of motorists and disrupting air travel...

At Beijing's Capital Airport, more than 60 flights were cancelled and up to 100 postponed in the early hours of Thursday due to the fresh snow, the airport said.

On Tuesday, more than 200 flights were cancelled or postponed at the airport -- one of the world's busiest -- after snows blanketed the capital.

Snow also fell in the outlying regions of Shanxi and Liaoning provinces on Wednesday and Thursday, leading to highway closures and the stranding of up to 10,000 vehicles and 30,000 people in Shanxi alone

[george76]

Beijing’s Heaviest Snow in 54 Years Strands Thousands.

Where is Al Gore and Obama ?

[a fool in paradise]

I recall reading that China was seeding clouds to make it snow a couple weeks ago.

Is this a related storm or not (China is a big place).

[Wisconsinlady]

Let’s see if China buys into the global warming now at the “Hopenhagen” treaty.

[george76]

In Beijing, snowfall is the heaviest since weather data began in 1955

[Kartographer]

Bush’s fault he caused global warming. ;-)

[NeoCaveman]

Didn’t Drudge have this yesterday a link about a Chinese snow storm caused by the ChiCom government?

[BGHater]

Funny, in 07’ or 08’, snow storms in China was probably the biggest unreported news story of the year.

[Made In The USA]

Yes, China made the snow.

They did it much less expensively than here in the US primarily due to cheap labor. Wal-Mart rumored to retail the snow at a cost some 33% less than American made snow.

[a fool in paradise]

Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced' (AFP November 2, 2009)

[BGHater]

2008 Chinese winter storms-Wiki

China's snow storm highlights shortages and spurs inflation

[a fool in paradise]

Article says "Northern China". Beijing IS north. Still unsure.

[pallis]

China is paying the price of not cooperating with the global warming scam. Had they moved to stop the warming, there wouldn’t be so much hot air pushing the cold air down.

[retrokitten]

Officials have said the two storms that hit Beijing were artificially induced, sparking anger among capital-area residents, but the extent of the weather manipulation efforts remained unclear.

Rove sold GOP weather controlling secrets to the Chinese????

[WVKayaker]

I was walking through the local Wallies, and saw a bin full of plastic pumpkins left from Halloween. They were marked down to 8 cents each. On the bottom of each was a MADE IN USA sticker...

WalMart is only one of many stores in this country that sell Chinese products. WalMart is also the largest retailer of American-made (and grown) items.

[retrokitten]

What is weird is that they never say how much snow they are getting, just that it’s heavy.

[Eye of Unk]

And I bet they send out their military to start shooting at the ice like they did last year.

[a fool in paradise]

Don’t eat the Yellow Snow.

[a fool in paradise]

What is weird is that they never say how much snow they are getting, just that it’s heavy.

There's probably lead in it like other Chinese products.

Every snowflake I've ever seen was very very light.

[Ingtar]

Where is Al Gore and Obama?

Al is likely skiing or spending some of his ill-gotten Global Warming wealth somewhere else. Zero is likely practicing his Nobel acceptance speech in a mirror - though he could simply be admiring his reflection.

[Ingtar]

Pre-WWII, I believe that Shanxi was an area southwest of Manchukuo with Beijing on its northeastern edge. It is hard to know for sure as it wasn’t as much a country as a warlord’s domain.