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Posted by Free on August 24, 2010, at 21:15:00
It all started with a simple commute to work.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPxX7xLgeu-0gKTjLyU_TY1f7TtgD9HQ38700
Only few more weeks of being vertical without food, toilets and showers. Imagine the pollution and the stench of human waste.
And I thought NY traffic was bad. This sounds like sheer h*ell.I suddenly feel grateful for suffering through my depression in the comfort of my home.
What happens if you run out of gas? Meds?
Posted by Dinah on August 25, 2010, at 6:48:06
In reply to Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting, posted by Free on August 24, 2010, at 21:15:00
That is incredible. I've been in sixty mile traffic jams in evacuations and it's horrid. I'm still convinced the stress of evacuating for Ivan hastened my father's decline. I can only imagine what it would be like in one several days as long. Aren't the cars running out of gas or breaking down and causing more problems? You are always seeing abandoned cars in an evacuation.
It's impossible to build infrastructure that quickly of course. I can't help but think that in Louisiana there would be state troopers out instead of vendors, sending people back the way they came, opening contraflow, etc. Maybe there are a few good things about living in an impatient society.
But then, Louisiana is a relatively small state in population. I probably can't even begin to imagine the magnitude.
Posted by sigismund on August 28, 2010, at 19:19:30
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » Free, posted by Dinah on August 25, 2010, at 6:48:06
The Chinese have announced that in the next two years they will build 13,000 km of high speed (faster than 350km/h) railway.
Posted by Free on August 29, 2010, at 16:15:39
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » Free, posted by Dinah on August 25, 2010, at 6:48:06
Trying to evacuate in 60 mile jams must have been a nightmare. Sorry you and your family had to go through that. It was stressful for me to just watch it on tv. Let's hope the hurricanes stay away.
Posted by Free on August 29, 2010, at 16:31:16
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting, posted by sigismund on August 28, 2010, at 19:19:30
> The Chinese have announced that in the next two years they will build 13,000 km of high speed (faster than 350km/h) railway.
I hope their workers are not subjected to gruesome labor conditions to get the job done in a hurry.
Posted by sigismund on August 30, 2010, at 16:54:39
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » sigismund, posted by Free on August 29, 2010, at 16:31:16
>I hope their workers are not subjected to gruesome labor conditions to get the job done in a hurry.
Nothing would surprise me.
With the Three Gorges dam.................how many people were displaced? They packed up the bones of their ancestors and moved. Was it 10 million of them?
Posted by Free on August 30, 2010, at 19:43:52
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » Free, posted by sigismund on August 30, 2010, at 16:54:39
> >I hope their workers are not subjected to gruesome labor conditions to get the job done in a hurry.
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> Nothing would surprise me.
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> With the Three Gorges dam.................how many people were displaced? They packed up the bones of their ancestors and moved. Was it 10 million of them?There are reports of cracks and landslides all around the dam, and it sits on a earthquake fault line. Thousands of villages and hundreds of cities under the dam will be submerged if there is a catastrophic failure.
You're right. It wouldn't surprise me either. Some of the thousands of Three Gorges dam workers got paid a few dollars a day for doing dangerously hard labor while living in a hillside shed without water and toilets. Things could always be worse I guess.
Posted by sigismund on August 31, 2010, at 18:23:55
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » sigismund, posted by Free on August 30, 2010, at 19:43:52
I wonder if the 10 million who were displaced got *any* compensation? Certainly not much.
Posted by Free on September 1, 2010, at 12:13:52
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » Free, posted by sigismund on August 31, 2010, at 18:23:55
> I wonder if the 10 million who were displaced got *any* compensation? Certainly not much.
In one village, a mother of three children was beaten and sentenced to five years in prison for demanding adequate compensation. The losses are tragic.
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