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18 Jan 10 - "Rescue workers evacuated thousands of rural residents from parts of northwestern China after extreme cold and blizzard conditions killed four people and left half a million snowed under," says this article on MSNBC. Storms in China's far western Xinjiang have flattened or damaged about 100,000 homes and killed more than 15,000 head of livestock since Sunday night. Temperatures in parts of Xinjiang are forecast to plunge to minus 45 degrees by midweek. In neighboring Mongolia, nearly 800,000 animals have been lost, with many transport routes blocked by heavy snow. What a tepid headline!
MSNBC posted this under the
headline " Extreme cold, snow
Eight hundred thousand animals
lost (I assume that means
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