On February 17, due to strong winds, sand and dust and snowfall, Hami, Xinjiang implemented traffic control on vehicles entering Xinjiang, resulting in a large number of people entering Xinjiang stranded in Guazhou County, Gansu Province. According to incomplete statistics, as of 22 o'clock on the same day, more than 20,000 people stranded in Guazhou have been resettled80,000.
Guazhou quickly activated the emergency response.
Due to sandstorms and light snow, traffic control was implemented on the G30 Lianhuo Expressway section in Guazhou County. As of 20 o'clock on the same day, the Xingxingxia section of the G30 Lianhuo Expressway was congested for nearly 12 kilometers, and the vehicles were stranded in the Malianjing area for 3 kilometers.
On the evening of the 17th, the Rushing News reporter learned from the Guazhou County Party Committee and County that after the incident, Guazhou County quickly launched the emergency road emergency plan for extreme weather, and dispatched public security, transportation, emergency response, Liuyuan Town and other departments and townships to carry out the work of dredging and ensuring the safety of stranded people and vehicles. At the same time, for a large number of stranded vehicles, the focus is on the emotional comfort, traffic order, and on-site maintenance of the stranded people. The departments of emergency, development and reform, and commerce urgently allocated 1,000 pieces of cotton clothes, folding beds, cotton bedding, and 3,000 pieces of mineral water, bread, cakes, biscuits and other urgently needed daily necessities, arranged two van distribution vehicles, and organized cadres and police to go to Liuyuan Town to carry out material distribution work. The transportation and commerce departments coordinate the service areas and gas stations along the route to solve the refueling problem for passing vehicles, and reserve sufficient daily necessities to ensure the needs of passing passengers. 60 rescue medical personnel and 20 ambulances from county hospitals (traditional Chinese medicine hospitals) and township health centers were dispatched to make emergency preparations. Two ambulances and six medical personnel were dispatched to the Liuyuan Public Security Checkpoint and the Liuyuan five-kilometer site respectively to ensure medical services. The public security department quickly mobilized police forces to remotely divert vehicles at the entrances and exits of Qiaowan, Guazhou North, and Liuyuan North through various methods such as shouting prompts and patrolling inspections, and control and rescue along the route. Continue to monitor the traffic conditions of key road sections and road vehicles at time nodes, and do a good job of dredging and ensuring smoothness. The cultural and tourism department formed 6 working groups to go to the Guazhou North Toll Station and Guazhou South Toll Station to assist in traffic control, and set up 3 tourist information points to provide hotel accommodation, traffic conditions and other information for passing tourists.
At present, most of the vehicles have returned one after another, and they are resting in Liuyuan and Guazhou nearby. About 500 vehicles and 2,000 people were shunted to Dunhuang for accommodation. The departments of culture, tourism and commerce set up temporary rest places in the national fitness hall in Guazhou County, dispatched 6,000 hotels and hotel beds, and actively coordinated with various star-rated hotels to provide temporary rest places in conference rooms and restaurants, and made every effort to provide acceptance services. The education department supervised the No. 2 Middle School and No. 4 Middle School of Guazhou County to provide 1,700 dormitory beds, and the Community Party and Mass Service Center fully cooperated with relevant departments to ensure the accommodation of the people stranded in Guazhou. People from all walks of life in Guazhou, caring people, Guazhou County Chenguang Training School, Bama Tea Industry Guazhou Store, State Grid Guazhou County Power Supply Company and other enterprises actively helped the stranded people to stay warm overnight, accepting 2,219 people. All entertainment venues that can provide accommodation, such as foot bath shops and KTVs, are open throughout the county. The department of industry and information technology urges communication operators to compile and issue road traffic and weather warning information in a timely manner, and give early warnings to all mobile phones entering Guazhou, remind the stranded people to pay attention to weather changes and road conditions, and actively cooperate with diversion control work.
As of 0:00 on the 18th, the rest of the people stranded in Guazhou had been basically settled in the No. 3 Middle School and some enterprises in Guazhou County. Guazhou County will pay close attention to the weather conditions of this cooling and snowfall, continue to maintain road traffic order, reserve sufficient emergency supplies, and maximize the warmth of the stranded people at night and return to Xinjiang in an orderly manner.
Traveler: The wind and snow are very cold, but Guazhou is very warm!
At noon on the 17th, a netizen in southern Xinjiang posted: "It's been 20 years, and it's the first time I've seen such a strong sandstorm", and the netizen also reminded drivers and friends who entered Xinjiang to slow down and slow down, safety first.
At 11 o'clock in the evening of the 17th, a rushing news reporter contacted a front desk reception staff at the Hongjinyuan Hotel in Guazhou County, she told reporters: "Guazhou County encountered sand and dust weather on the morning of the 17th, and it began to snow at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon that day, and it did not stop until about 10 o'clock that night. Our hotel rooms have a total of 162 beds, of which 90% are booked online this morning and the first two days, 5% are not checked out on the morning of the 17th, and 5% are checked in at the front desk on the 17th. ”
The staff told the rushing news reporter that due to strong winds and snowfall, after the implementation of traffic control on vehicles entering Xinjiang in Hami, Xinjiang, a large number of passengers entering Xinjiang were stranded in Guazhou County, and the banquet hall of Hongjinyuan Hotel, which can accommodate 500 people, has been free of charge for stranded passengers to rest temporarily on the afternoon of the 17th, and free boiling water is provided, and the banquet hall has floor heating, and the indoor temperature is more than 20 degrees. In order to facilitate the stranded passengers to dine and buy daily necessities, the hotel restaurant and supermarket have extended their closing hours, the restaurant usually closes at 9 p.m., but now it is postponed to 10 p.m., and the hotel supermarket has also extended the original 10 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Mr. Zhou, from Nanyang, Henan Province, was "trapped" in Guazhou on the afternoon of the 17th, and rested in the banquet hall of Hongjinyuan Hotel that night. He said: "Due to work reasons, he has not returned to his hometown for two consecutive years to reunite with his parents, this year's Spring Festival, a large family of more than a dozen people have arrived, the atmosphere of the New Year is very strong, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, he and his wife and children set off from their hometown, along the way to change the car did not feel tired, thinking that after Guazhou will soon arrive in Hami, did not expect to be trapped in Guazhou." ”
Mr. Zhou told reporters: "The hotel banquet hall is very warm, about 100 stranded passengers rested in the banquet hall that night, some put the chairs in the hall together to rest, some simply lay on the floor, do not feel cold at all, the hotel also provides us with boiling water, go out and encounter bad weather, we are very content with such a temporary resting place, special thanks to the local ** and the hotel for the help we provide, the wind and snow are very cold, Guazhou is very warm!" ”
Text丨Rushing News reporter Wu Yongming.
Provided by Guazhou County Financial Media