According to The BBC News, United Kingdom, more than 170,000 people are stranded at a train station in Guangzhou, China due to heavy snowfall. In other cities, many roads are blocked and people stranded because of icy roads and limited supplies of salt for them. More than 20 people have been killed from heavy weather conditions and many regional airports have been closed as well as most trains being delayed or cancelled.
Many people are traveling right now because Lunar New Year is on Monday, February 4th. Last year, more than 2 billion people traveled around this time for the New Year, and it was considered the largest mass migration on Earth.
Even though the Guangzhou train station is closed, many citizens have flocked to public schools and government buildings in Guangzhou that Chinese officials have set up as shelters for citizens to escape power, food, and other necessity shortage in their own homes. The heavy snow has caused homes and power lines to collapse and crops and stores to be destroyed. As of Monday, over 67 million people have been affected by this weather, according to the civil affairs ministry and the Chinese government is working to provide temporary shelters and food for this mass of people.
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