Re: China in lockdown as weather worsens. Forecasters expect three more days of bad weather in China: China Snowstorms

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:44:38 -0800 (PST), "fyfpoon@xxxxxxxxx"
<fyfpoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


One of the major problems is that the country does not have enough
equipments to deal with the situation. For example, in Canada,
whenever snows comes, there are bulldozers out there to clean the snow
and salt put on highways. Now the Chinese seem to be learning about
this. It is good that snow comes at this time so that they can learn
how to cope with snow. When Opympic comes, they will not have the
time for learning.


This is a one in 50 year event and it covers 17 provinces. Not even
Canada, and I live there, can cope. Plus all the highways are choked
with stalled traffic. A snow plow woudln't get very far anywhere even
if you have any. Cut out all this bullshitting about what the
government should have done. Be glad that they are doing something
and things seem to be under control. The real danger is a government
that doesn't know what to do and there is general panic about news
updates, power supply, food, people stripping the stores for emergency
supplies, looting, gridlock in the cities and so on.
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