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[randomness]

I'd heard about the hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded in Guangzhou, but until now I hadn't actually seen any photos that showed what the conditions were like in Central China. (The coast has gotten mostly slushy glop, but the situation inland is what's stopped the trains and closed the airports.)

Until now.



That's some pretty serious ice storm action.

(image found at: http://barewallschina.blogspot.com/2008/01/correction-on-weather-info.html)

Edit: According to the blog, that picture's from Wuhan, and that body of water is a lake.

Comments

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Wow!

I'm tempted to forward it on to my colleagues . . . they're all whining about how it's supposed to get down to -2C this weekend. (Buncha babies. *g*)

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

um, i think someone's been re-using pictures -- a friend of mine had that image as a desktop image years ago. i think it's actually from an ice storm here on the east coast.

[inthatoneway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right, except that snopes says it from Switzerland. Check out the third photo down:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/icestorm.asp

[choirsoftheeye.livejournal.com]

Regardless of where it came from, it's pretty.

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was going to say the same thing. I was looking at these photos from Switzerland just a few weeks ago.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

good lord.. the ice-encrusted car is one thing, but the diagonal ice off the tree is really stunning, like rain frozen in time.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I've seen that picture a very long time ago.

ETA: And I should read the other comments before I post. :)

[evilbunnymayhem.livejournal.com]

wow, mother nature can certainly give us all a "time out" when she wants to.
An she does it with such beauty sometimes... damn that's pretty.

[muffyjo]

AH, I see others have told you what I was going to say about having seen it before. Meanwhile, it's still pretty awesome. There were bits on youtube about it, too. You got to watch cars attempting to drive on the ice...really entertaining, in that "I'm safe at home watching this and glad not to be there" kind of way.

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

YIKES!! and i thought february, 2007 in MA was bad!

[slyppi.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen these pics before, no matter where they're from, and they sure make me feel better about winter in New England. ;)

I used to drive down the highway every day through an area that was decimated by the last huge ice storm we had in New England. Completely amazing what the forest looked like, even years later.