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[QUOTE]Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, the local government said on Sunday.
Eighteen others remained missing in Min county, a disaster-prone area of Gansu province, while 87 had been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website.
Officials said 29,300 people had been evacuated after rain and hail battered the county for just 60 minutes late Thursday afternoon.
It had "wreaked havoc" on all of the county's 18 townships and had affected more than two-thirds of its 450,000 residents, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.
"Roads were blocked, houses collapsed, farmland was destroyed, and the power supply and telecommunications services were disrupted by the extreme weather," the agency said, quoting Xu Guangyao, a senior county official.
Min county is 150 kilometres from Zhouqu county, where a rain-triggered mudslide killed about 1,500 people in August 2010.
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A better title would have been 40 die from hailstorm in China. Made it sound like China had some sort of weather controlling weapon.
[QUOTE=Zoran;35936427]Holy hail.
I'm going to hail aren't I?
Hail, maybe not.[/QUOTE]
you made three of the same pun. repeating it thrice doesn't make it better.
not trying to be rude, just want to hailp.
Terrible. There's always high death tolls when stuff like this happens.
When an accident happens in China, a lot of people die.
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_China_floods"]When[/URL] a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Yellow_River_flood"]disaster[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake"]happens[/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake"]China[/URL], a [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Haiyuan_earthquake"]lot[/URL][/I] of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nina_(1975)"]people[/URL] die.
Whenever something big happens, thanks to the population density in a lot of their cities, the death tolls are always unimaginably high from us Westerners perspective.
[QUOTE=Zoran;35936427]Holy hail.
I'm going to hail aren't I?
Hail, maybe not.[/QUOTE]
How is this funny? This is disrespectful as fuck
please leave, your shitty puns aren't welcome here
[QUOTE=Zoran;35936427]Holy hail.
I'm going to hail aren't I?
Hail, maybe not.[/QUOTE]
All hail poor puns.
[QUOTE=mac338;35936454]Terrible. There's always high death tolls when stuff like this happens.
When an accident happens in China, a lot of people die.
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_China_floods"]When[/URL] a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Yellow_River_flood"]disaster[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake"]happens[/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake"]China[/URL], a [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Haiyuan_earthquake"]lot[/URL][/I] of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nina_(1975)"]people[/URL] die.
Whenever something big happens, thanks to the population density in a lot of their cities, the death tolls are always unimaginably high from us Westerners perspective.[/QUOTE]
I always have a hard time trying to figure whether disasters in eastern Asia are worse than everywhere else, or because the backwater areas of the mainland nations (China, NK, etc.) are just so shit and impoverished that they're hit way harder by them.
Probably because they're overcrowded and some buildings are designed for different events which can result in total fatality
I may be wrong but that's what I get out of it.
[QUOTE=Lankist;35936471]I always have a hard time trying to figure whether disasters in eastern Asia are worse than everywhere else, or because the backwater areas of the mainland nations (China, NK, etc.) are just so shit and impoverished that they're hit way harder by them.[/QUOTE]
Well, yeah. There are several factors I can imagine.
China's on a tectonic plate, and it's got a coast line open for floods and typhoons, incredibly high population densities for the most part, with people cramped in poor structures, in a place where the government isn't concerned about their safety very much, where they are - to top that - impoverished.
So expect tragedy when you hear China and disaster on the news.
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Except in China.
Erm, China is prone to a lot of people dying in a short period of time.
Maybe it's just China's plan to decrease it's population.
[QUOTE=Lankist;35936471]I always have a hard time trying to figure whether disasters in eastern Asia are worse than everywhere else, or because the backwater areas of the mainland nations (China, NK, etc.) are just so shit and impoverished that they're hit way harder by them.[/QUOTE]
Yep. Poor infrastructure and no money from the government to support its people, and you end up with otherwise less dangerous factors becoming deadly. It's like how thousands of people die every year in Africa from a simple affliction like Diarrhea, or the report from a few years back about how Al Qaeda in Algeria was having trouble with Black Death, because they had no medical supplies.
It begins!
hail hitler
[QUOTE=DrBreen;35938446]hail hitler[/QUOTE]
Why do you always have to come into a thread and shitpost in it?
Must have been pretty big hail to kill people
[QUOTE=MILKE;35938792]Must have been pretty big hail to kill people[/QUOTE]
It's most likely not the hail directly that killed the people. The combined weight of it collapsed houses which in turned killed people.
While it's a tragedy, I guess we should be thankful that an event that affected something like 300,000 people only killed 40. From what I've seen that bodycount could potentially have been much higher.
Not to disprespect those that died, though. It's still horrible.
hailstorms are pretty scary
i don't think that the hail could break my windows
but at the same time i do think hail could break my windows
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35938458]Why do you always have to come into a thread and shitpost in it?[/QUOTE]
We don't need your hail of criticism.
OT: I feel sincerely sorry for all the families affected.
the only solution is to attack the chinese
[QUOTE=Lankist;35936450]you made three of the same pun. repeating it thrice doesn't make it better.
not trying to be rude, just want to hailp.[/QUOTE]
if you really wanna help, leave facepunch.
not defending zoran, just don't like you
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holy fuck, I just realized you typed help as hailp, my bad
you hurt my feelings
Chinese Hailstorm? I swear i thought it said it was raining Chinese men for a second...
Better say your hail mary's.
[QUOTE=XIII;35949030]Better say your hail mary's.[/QUOTE]
To hail with that.
seriously there are other words that sound like "hail" other than "hell."
jesus christ dude get a thesaurus
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