Today in China, a feeling of warmth broke through the hoar frost of the beleagered south for stranded drivers who have been sitting in their halted cars and trucks and buses for days. The Chinese central government had sent half a million army troops to do the job of snow plows, manually shovelling the roads and highways clear of snow and ice.
And today, the mess tents were serving many more than the green-suited members of the armed forces.
Steamingbuns, noodles, and rice were making their way to the cold and hungrypeople sitting in their vehicles waiting for the roads and rails to finally be clear.
Say what you will about centralized government, but once Premier Wen Jia Bao took the reigns to deal with this disaster, things went moresmoothly and improved immensely. Not that you can believe it 100%, but the news reports less than 100 people have died in this natural disaster. In China, that's nothing. We have people dying in New York from cold every year. How manypeople died in Katrina?
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