China buckles under harsh winter

Its just a week before Lunar New Year & China are still battling the harsh winter.

The heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures across China have left more than 50 dead, ravaged power supplies and hit millions of people trying to go home for the main holiday of the year. It has affected tens of millions of people and paralysed many areas. This is the harshest winter for half a century in recorded history.

The weather has disrupted travel plans for millions of Chinese striving to return home, situation is particularly severe in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, a province in southern China whose export-oriented industries employ millions of migrant workers - many of whom were hoping to get out before the festival. Tens of thousands were gathered in or around Guangzhou train station, with anger bubbling over amid frustration that part of the crucial line to Beijing had been knocked out by the snow. Similar scenes have been played out in China's largest city Shanghai, after authorities cancelled all long-distance train travel, leaving 30,000 stranded at stations. Nearly 50,000 people were stranded in the Hunan section of a key expressway from Beijing to the southern coast of the Chinese mainland.

Many will have to grit their teeth through the unprecedented icy storm as Chinese forecasters said that more snow and freezing rain would hit Southern China this week. Not only in China, US & Europe also face the same snow storm. USA Today has also warn that a coastal storm is producing a plowable snow for much of southern New England. The heaviest snow will shift northward during the course, and heavy snow warnings extend from northern Connecticut through central and eastern Maine.

Are we going into another Ice Age? or Mother Earth is healing itself by making more Icebergs for the North pole so that the El Nino effect can be ease for the rest of the year.. Will there be significant snowfall in rural areas for Australia this time round for the South pole? It's rare for Australia to have such snowfall, but it did happen in 1951, 1986 and 2005. Still remember China making Man-make snow fall earlier in 2007? Is this the Karma for going against nature?