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[quote=LEONARDO,289841]Hi guys,

I am back. On May 12, I am stuck in Chongqing municipality for over two hours. Luckily, I survived the earthquake and the traffic accidents. Thanks goodness! 
I went to Chongqing on May 12. It seems to be a hellish day!

I got off the train at 6:25am at Caiyuanba Railway Station (菜园坝火车站). At about 7：30am, I took a bus 808 to the touristy spot Ci Qi Kou(磁器口). The journey was smooth, but the bus drivers impressed me a lot. (They drove crazily). The roads in Chongqing were tortuous and bumpy, but the drivers drove faster than the drivers in other cities I have visited.

When I took No.808 bus from Ci Qi Kou to Caiyuanba, two traffic accidents happened. The first bus (No.808) I am on rear-ended with another bus (No.308). Fortunately, noboday was injured. All the passengers had to been transferred to another bus (No.808). Well, I was down on my luck on May 12. The latter bus crashed into another bus. All the passengers were stranded there for about ten minutes, and then were transferred to a third No.808. After all, I returned to the Caiyuanba Railway Station safe and sound.

At about 1:00 pm, I arrived at Jie Fang Bei (解放碑) in Chongqing, and took some photos there. The weather was hot and sticky. At about 2:20 pm, I felt tired and sat near a tree at the suquare of Jie Fang Bei. Because it was Monday, few people were at the square. However, at 2:30 pm, countless office workers rushed out of the skyscrapers to the square. I was startled but didn’t know what happened. A guy beside me told me the buildings were shaking. All the people around me dialed their cellphones. I tried to telephone my friends but failed. “Network Failure” was the only words I could hear from the earphone. Chongqing was in chaos. It seems to me tha t it was the “9.11” of Chongqing except that there was no siren. I was stuck there for two hours. I didn’t get on a bus until 5:00 pm. It was a nightmare!
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