Days of heavy snow and rain have resulted in power and water
failures in the Yuebei mountainous areas of south China's Guangdong
Province. More than 400,000 people in 26 townships including
Yunyan, Meihua, Daqiao and Hongyun have been affected. Traffic has
been held up, crops frozen and trees broken down. Local governments
are assembling manpower and material resources to conduct rescue
activities in the disaster-stricken areas.
A hapless truck
driver?was trapped in the snow and waiting for rescue on
Sunday.
An automobile maintenance
station in Ruyuan Township damaged by ice and snow on
Sunday.
Trucks were waiting for
rescue on the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway on Sunday.
Ice surrounded a telephone
booth on the Ruyuan section of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway on
Sunday.
(Xinhua News Agency, China.org.cn February 4, 2008)
