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[quote=ICEBLUE,267618]The successive heavy snowfall  has caused severe traffic problems. Forecasters issued a red alert yesterday warning that more snow and fleet are likely to fall  in the coming days.

This year is the most snowiest year in the past 50 years for many parts of China. The snow has been sweeping the central, eastern and southwestern parts of the country in recent days, paralyzing air, rail and highway traffic and stranding tens of thousands of passengers amid a pre-holiday travel peak, according to sources.

Guangzhou in South China's Guangdong province is one of the most affected area by heavy snow. By saturday night, almost 150,000 passengers were stuck at Guangzhou railway station after a power failure caused by snow, ice and sleet stopped more than 136 electric trains in Hunan province on the trunk line between Beijing and Guangzhou.

Though the power supply resumed at 4 pm on Saturday, 50 trains remain stranded between Hengyang in Hunan and Guangzhou.

A Guangzhou railway official warned yesterday that the number of stranded passengers in Guangzhou could hit 600,000 today.
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