SOS, Chinese city isolated by blizzard needs help!

cn.chinareviewnews.com ^ | 1st,Feb | colorwolf2000

[Hacklehead]

Sucks to be them.

[CDHart]

Since they're trying to poison us, I don't think I'll worry about them too much.

Carolyn

[DannyTN]

Al Gore could grant them carbon credits.

[DannyTN]

Actually, I wish them well. But that’s China’s responsibility. They can afford to modernize their military they can afford to take care of their own.

[oh8eleven]

I cannot imagine how anyone says that China is anything but a third-world country.
My son taught in Korea for a year, then Shanghai for two years. He's traveled Asia extensively and he says China makes Korea look like paradise.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Dittos, amen. I know what it’s like to be without power (but not without water and food) for an extended period of time from an ice storm....it’s not fun to be in a freezing home. So I hope and pray relief comes soon to the Chinese people in this bad situation. But NOT from American taxpayers! China is a rich country. Their communist “leaders” have so much money - in their private bank accounts - they can take care of the situation just fine.....

[Pravious]

“...and burdened with an archaic government structure that is more interested in maintaining its grip on power than truly helping its people.”

In other words, just like us. ;-<

[badguy2200]

can somebody here teach me how to post picture here?

[DannyTN]

It’s an imgsrc=” “ command. It’s been a while since I used them. Do a search for “HTML Sandbox” here, and I think you’ll see examples.

[cripplecreek]

You’ll get a great training here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555762/posts

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Average weather in Shenzhen, China, as close to Chenzhou City as I could find.

The difference is that down in the SE Hunan province (where Chenzhou is based), the low temperature during winter is usually no lower than 14 deg C - about 55 degrees. A month of freezing weather and snow has pushed the systems beyond the limit.

Imagine what would happen if Miami was hit by 45 days of freezing weather and snow. After a month, things would be a mess.

Now take that to be the entire state of Florida and the Gulf Coast and all of Southern California.

What China's facing right now is extremely rare; the grandmother of my Chinese office manager has lived her entire 87 years in Shanghai, and has NEVER seen a year where they got more than 3-4 days of snow, let alone the 40 they have had so far.

I guess you take glee in the mudslides that hit Mexico last year, too, though...

[badguy2200]

Well,what china now needs is not money,food,clothes drugs or other supplies...

China may have the biggest stock of those supplies.

What China needs most is helicopters .

well,all expressways,highways and railways are being frozen. now ,maybe only helicopters can finish the duty to tranport supplies.

the blizzard is assaulting hundreds of cities in China.
Obviously, China needs more helicopters.

[John Leland 1789]

” . . . I cannot imagine how anyone says that China is anything but a third-world country. She is choking on her own pollution, running out of water, and burdened with an archaic government structure that is more interested in maintaining its grip on power than truly helping its people.”

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AND will be a tool of the selfish and covetous to eventually drain the U.S. economy dry!

[badguy2200]

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[KS Flyover]

Try this:

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[NRA1995]

Landrieu, Nagin, your help is needed....

[NRA1995]

the ticket of buses also rockets,so is the service of taxi.

And I thought OUR journalists are suffering from language skills!

[Captain Rhino]

In the very first episode of “Connections” (a pretty good PBS science program during the 1980s), the presenter, John(?) Burke, described the modern city as a “technology trap.” In order for humans to live in such high densities, the technology of the city (transportation, utilities, food, housing, refuse disposal, sanitation, etc.) must be able to work day-in and day-out with little or no disruption. Allow those to be disrupted, even for a short period like a week, and the city’s inhabitants begin to discover they are essentially trapped inside a nonfunctional cultural machine with very little innate carrying capacity.

A number of years ago, the locale where I live (northern Virginia) experienced a taste of the technology trap when we had two major snow storms about 5 days apart. We had just dug out from the first when the second arrived. Arriving at their local grocery stores to replenish the larder before the second storm arrived, shoppers found the shelves bare of basic food stuffs (bread, milk, eggs, etc.) because the transportation system and food distribution system had not yet reprovisioned the stocks depleted by the shopping rush before the first storm.

When hospitals loose emergency power and other fuel supplies essential to maintain public utilities are depleted, it creates a cascade of power-dependent service sector failures. That is what this Chinese city is experiencing now.

[listenhillary]

The Olympics may be amusing after all.

[NRA1995]

Even closestool of hotel is not available due to the lack of water.

All your closestoll are belong to us!