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To: bd476
the road in sichuang most difficult, the Chinese ancient poem describe:it harder than to the sky, because she connected the world's highest plateau, with an elevation from 6,000 meters to 100 meters drastic changes.The earthquake occurred, is such a place:abyss on the left hand, the right peak more than 1,000 meters, it is dangerous road when No earthquakes, once earthquakes,It becomes a nightmare.
878 posted on 05/13/2008 7:55:21 AM PDT by gintama
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To: gintama
With that difficult of a road, plus the landslides and huge boulders in the way, it is then easy to understand why emergency personnel will have great difficulty arriving to rescue any survivors.

I wonder if helicopters would be of any use.

887 posted on 05/13/2008 8:11:12 AM PDT by bd476
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