Are you Chinese still able to get through to US websites? Y’all seem to have dropped off since yesterday.
What’s the food situation? Are soldiers still backpacking it in or has the weather cleared enough to do aerial drops?
Are the people getting tents dropped?
“Are you Chinese still able to get through to US websites? Y’all seem to have dropped off since yesterday.”
I read there was earthquake damage in Xi’an (where the terra cotta soldiers are). So on May 15th I emailed our tour guide in Xi’an and I just received this email from her, dated May16th.
On May 12th, almost at thirty past two, the earthquake occurred, at that time we could feel our house rocking, so we ran out. About 1 hour later, we went home, we got some information about it then by watching TV.
This massive earthquake struck Sichuan province, a neighboring province of our province in the southwest of China, its influence is very giant, more than ten provinces involved, Xi’an has been affected to some extent, but not very seriously, so the situation here has returned to normal very soon.
But the situation in Sichuan is very serious, especially in epicenter, a county in mountainous region, together with several neighboring counties, is isolated: electricity supply was cut off, telephone communications were knocked out, many buildings collapsed, and the roads to these areas were destroyed!!!!!!! Many people died!!!
Our government set up special headquarters for resisting earthquake and providing disaster relief, armies from different areas went there to rescue the victims, and people from all walks of life donate money and materials to help them! Over the past few days, some were saved!!!!!!
These days my husband and I are very sorry! The only thing that we can do is to join in the assistant group to help our compatriots! Some foreign friends also joined in!
Like you, this evening when I read your mail, it warms my heart, thanks again for you concern! All our difficulties will be behind us soon, under these circumstances union is strength for us! We are certain to defeat this disaster!