[badguy2200]

well, the blizzard in China prevents the supply of electricity ,food and water.

all highways,expressways,airlines,railways are disabled by the blizzard.

[Lurking in Kansas]

Welcome to FR!

[RSmithOpt]

I hate it for the people, but, nature happens.

"Blizzard in China prevents the supply of electricity ,food and water - Women, Children and Minorities Hardest Hit!!"

[Reaganesque]

How much snow did they get?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Send in Algor. He can tell them they are suffering from an overactive imagination.

[Graybeard58]

Since snowsnow assaulted the city

Snow², the very worst kind.

[Uncle Miltie]

Where’s that picture of Al Gore breathing fire? He can help!

[shuckmaster]

I have a brick I can donate.

[badguy2200]

it seems like a film
[img]http://www.zzdesk.cn/d/0/2/103/200611090105063907.jpg[/img]

But it is the truth.
[img]http://img4.tianya.cn/photo/2008/1/27/6577636_1258072.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img4.tianya.cn/photo/2008/1/27/6577633_1258072.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img4.tianya.cn/photo/2008/1/27/6577623_1258072.jpg[/img]

[HamiltonJay]

Wal Mart is on their way.... can’t let a little thing like mother nature stand in the way of exporting our wealth to a third world nation with dubious political agendas.

[wastedyears]

China wants help? Tough

[cripplecreek]

We could send a shipload of supplies and then we could change our mind at the last minute and turn our ship around and leave.

[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.

[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!