| | The day i left shanghai is Dec 21th.Since 22th,the temperature there began to drop to below 0.Then there comes the snow and sleet.It rarely snows in shanghai, i remember in 2004 it snowed,though only a little bit,barely can be made into a snowman,it still greatly excited my classmates from the south.
This time, the snow can no longer make ppl laugh any more.
The snowstorm badly hit the southern part of china,paralyzed the electric network and railway of the mostly damaged provinces such as Hunan,Guizhou,Anhui,Hubei.Thousands of passagers have been trapped in the railway station for days,and some trains are proceeding towards the destination at the speed of turtle.
It is Only four days before the traditional chinese new year, just like Chrismas in the westerners' mind, the lunar new year is the most important festival,on this day,family will get reunited no matter how far the family member is away from home. Thus it is understandable that railyway transportation is becoming terribly tense at this time of year.However, this horrible snow greatly paralyzed the railway,leaving those wanting-home-passagers in the station tired and fretful.
A friend of mine whose hometown is Chongqing, spent 4 days on his journey back home which used to be only 34 hours...he said,since arrived the province of Hunan, the train stopped every 10 minutes and staying at the spot for about 1hours(to charge for the locomotive).what is most horrible is the only 20minutes distance to kaili,Guizhou province became 10 hours lonh,and they stayed at Kaili on the train for about 6 hours.My friend , who has no food or drink for 12 hours,said he had the altiplano symptom and the carriage he was in became agitated and restless with mid-age woman crying desperately ,little baby sick and old man off his head,illusioned that the steward intended to steal his money.......it is really understandable in such inhuman circumstance.
It is the biggest snow in the recent 50 years in the history of the southern part.ppl can no longer get excited about the beautiful scene made by the snow which ,however,has already caused some parts more than 1 week's blackout and the grievous loss of the electric workers' precious lives of in Hunan province......
Our goverment is making great efforts to enable the disruption to the minimum, our government leaders,chairman Hujintao,premiere Wun jiabao have set out to the most attacked area and the coal supplying parts,encouraging the irritating trapped passagers and hardworking workers.
Now, it is just reported that the 4th round of snowstorm is ruthlessly approaching the south part. In face of the powful nature, what we can do is not only to pray, but also confidently,unswerving accept the challenge and work up every possible means to solve the problem.
While inspecting the train station of Hunan, premiere Wunjiabao promised" Every one can arrive at home in time for the lunar new year!"Let's hope it will come true. |
| | Posted 2/1/2008 10:26 PM - 33 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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