Tim Johnson’s China Rises blog has this video of chaotic scenes outside a southern China rail station in the midst of China’s winter storm. As Tim says, “it’s eight minutes long. But you’ll see scenes you won’t see on the television news”. (Hat-tip: Blake Hounshell.)
Also at ForeignPolicy.com, Blake’s buddy Drew Kumpf offers a tabulated comparison of how China’s winter storm shapes up against Hurricane Katrina. It’s much lower in terms of fatalities (60 versus 1,353), and damage ($7.5 billion vs. $96 billion) – but rather larger in terms of evacuees (1.7 million vs. 1.1 million), homes damaged or destroyed (1 million+ vs. 300,000) and troops deployed (500,000 vs. 50,000).
