It is Snowing Again

Can you believe it? It is snowing lightly again. That is all it has done this winter and the winds have been terrible too. We went to the next larger town this morning and we could see by the high drifts along the highway that that main highway was really closed up by snow just a few days ago. I don't know why but we have had blizzard-like weather an awful lot of Mondays into Tuesdays in February. Our landlord doesn't know where to pile the snow anymore.

Blizzards in China

Crowds of frantic Chinese fought for seats Wednesday on the few trains leaving southern China, where the worst winter storms in half a century have crippled the nation's transport system during its busiest travel season. One desperate mob stormed a city bus in the main southern city of Guangzhou, mistakenly thinking it was taking passengers to the day's last departing trains. They pried open doors and elbowed their way inside as helpless police yelled that it was not going to the station. Hundreds of thousands of stranded Chinese want to get home for next week's Lunar New Year, a holiday that is as important in China as Christmas is in the West.