August 15, 2007
Yantai Airport overwhelmed by floods
Two days ago, Shandong Province's Yantai Airport was completely overwhelmed by floods -- the greatest it has ever seen -- and was forced to shut down. 45 flights were either cancelled or postponed. Heavy rains started at about 5am in the morning and within half an hour, the waters had risen to about 0.5 metre. This video has some pretty amazing footage of 25 staff pushing an aeroplane -- yes, you heard that right -- to safe ground. The departure hall of the airport was also completely flooded, and staff had to be deployed to use sandbags to protect the cargo area.
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I hope they got this cleared up. At Hongqiao Airport now and people just got on a plane headed for Yantai.
I wonder how this might be related to Beijing dicking around with frequent cloud seeding. That kind of activity really messes with the thermodynamic balance in the atmosphere.
nanheyangrouchuan
Wow, #2, you sound like an expert. Are you now a climatologist, too, or just a bigoted douchebag?
Btw, where's the video?
Oh, nevermind about the second part
China sucks, it is convenient this flood came along to wash some of the shit away.
nanheyangrouchuan
25 people pushing an aeroplane? Isn't that how most domestic airplanes take off?
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Hey Douchebag number 3, are you a climatologist?
Hypocrite, calling someone else a bigot when you are clearly just acting petty.
Oh, and like him or not, he's right.
Anyone ever heard an old saying that when natural disasters start occurring a lot in China that is a sign that heaven is removing the mandate of the emperor?
And China doesn't suck. Only the people in charge.
Good comeback. I know you are, but what am I?
I guess this guy's constant harping only annoys me. Hate will bring us all together -- climatoliogists, sinologists, douchebags, hypocrites.
BTW, I am a climatologist, so lick em.
flooding is going on everywhere in the world, not just China.
usagi, only China is messing around with its regional climate.
nanheyangrouchuan
im sure the global warming has no effect on this what so ever
Douchebag #3,
Let's not be so dramatic, even though nanheyangrouchuan is...
I don't see him as hateful, just crotchety. He makes a lot of good points around the blogs and MOSTLY contributes constructive comments. If he goes a little too far sometimes I can excuse it...
Check out the comments section on Time's China blog for some real hatemongering...It's seem to become a forum for English seeking Chinese nationalists to have an open dialogue about China's rise and Western "plots" against it. It's really quite fascinating to see them take the nascent freedom for open dialogue the China blog offers them and use it for waves of ignorance...
That being said, sometimes we need to be careful when we use the word Chinese. I don't hate the Chinese, but when I see articles on Chinese keeping each other as slaves, I often catch myself thinking "damn Chinese", when really I mean only the Chinese people that are involved in it and those that help support the system through inactions...
Too bad the pipster on sinocidal doesn't appreciate my constructive comments.
nanheyangrouchuan