The originally quiet small county town, with a population of only 50,000, suddenly ushered in 250,000 passengers stranded due to bad weather.
Strong winds, blowing sand, snowfall, and cooling, more than 20,000 travelers experienced the cold of the northwest in the wind power capital.
Subsequently, the warmth quickly began to converge at the intersection, on the street, and on WeChat, turning into a heat wave to embrace these strange visitors.
After the hotel was full, gymnasiums, middle school dormitories, restaurants and training institutions, residents of the whole city opened their doors to accept tourists stranded in the wind and cold in an orderly manner ......
"There were 11 relatives visiting the family for the Chinese New Year".
Guazhou is the "world's wind reservoir", the world's "wind power capital" and "the hometown of China's honeydew melon".
It belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and is located at the west end of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, connecting Yumen City, an oil city in the east, Dunhuang City in the west, adjacent to Subei Mongolian Autonomous County in the north and south, and Hami City in Xinjiang in the northwest.
Since February 17, affected by strong winds and snowfall, temporary control measures have been taken on highways such as Lianhuo Expressway and Jingxin Expressway from Gansu to Xinjiang.
The hotels in the county are all full, and many tourists on the street may want to spend the night in the car, can we vacate a room ......After dinner, the wind and snow were howling, and the outdoor temperature was close to minus 10 degrees Celsius, Wang Yang made a heart-warming decision after discussing with his wife, and sent a circle of friends: "Because the Blizzard Hotel is full, I provide a free accommodation room at home, suitable for a family of three, all free of charge for those stranded in Guazhou, address: ......, No. 5, Jiayuan, Center.""He left the connection**.
Is this true? Where is the location? We can't find it. Xu Weiming, who wanted to return to Yili in Xinjiang from Hubei, was trapped on the streets of Guazhou, and suddenly saw the news pushed by others in the ice and snow, and dialed Wang Yang's mobile phone suspiciously.
After receiving **, Wang Yang sincerely invited, and on the other hand, in order to avoid delaying time, he drove to the street to find Xu Weiming, took the three people in the same car to his home, arranged for them to live in the big bedroom, and also took out new bed sheets**, slippers, toiletries, and brought hot tea ......
Since then, there have been ** dials, and 7 tourists have walked into Wang Yang's home one after another, and the room is not enough to live, so they squeeze out another room. In this way, Pei Jing's family, Huo Ningning's family and Xu Weiming's party, a total of 11 people, became the "temporary relatives" of Wang Yang's family. Early the next morning and at noon, Wang Yang and his wife prepared breakfast and ramen, and everyone boiled water and hot rice together, talked and laughed, and waited for the wind and snow to pass and resume traffic.
At night, the temperature outside drops to about minus 15 degrees Celsius, which is unimaginable if you stay in the car. Huo Ningning said.
In fact, this night, in Guazhou, Yumen, Dunhuang and other places, in the vast wind, snow and cold night, many such stories happened.
"I met a lot of good Samaritans this night".
On February 19, Mr. Tang, a stranded person in Guazhou, told reporters that he was a native of Deyang, Sichuan, and had come to Changji, Xinjiang to work in 1999, and had taken his son back to his hometown for the Spring Festival this year. On the evening of February 15, he took a train from Deyang to Changji, while his son chose to return by car the next morning.
Mr. Tang recounted that on his way back, the high-speed train could not travel after reaching Zhangye City, Gansu Province, when the weather was a little cold, but there was no snow. "Some passengers are still in a hurry, some get off the bus in Zhangye, and some people are returning to Lanzhou like me, planning to find a car from Lanzhou to Xinjiang. A few fellows knew I had a car and asked if I could get a ride. After more than ten hours, Mr. Tang and his son met in Lanzhou, and they also carried three Sichuan villagers by the way.
On February 17, when Ganxin and Ganxin were affected by a snowstorm and traffic control was implemented on the G30 Lianhuo Expressway, Mr. Tang and his party were stopped by the traffic police and told that they could go to two middle schools and gymnasiums in Guazhou County to rest first. They went to the local middle school at the address provided by the traffic police, but since it was close to the early hours of the morning when they arrived, the school was already full. With the help of the volunteers, they were able to stay at a local hotel for free.
I met a lot of well-wishers this night, and our hearts are warm, and we are very grateful to the people of Guazhou. Mr. Tang said.
Mr. Tang never imagined that the usual 10-hour journey back home ended up being delayed for about 3 days on the road. He had started work the day before yesterday, but now he had to ask the company for leave, which was also the first time he was blocked on the return journey by train and stranded in another country. They arrived in Turpan City, Xinjiang, tonight, and are now more than 200 kilometers away from Changji. "My mentality is still relatively peaceful, if it is delayed, it will be delayed, and it is good that I can go back safely and smoothly. He said.
Wait until the flowers bloom and meet in Guazhou
After realizing the severity of the snowstorm, the local government activated the emergency plan, opened the government affairs hall, schools, gymnasiums and other facilities, and allocated daily necessities such as quilts, mineral water, and instant noodles to provide living guarantees for the stranded people.
The originally peaceful small county town urgently dispatched more than 6,000 beds in various guesthouses and hotels overnight, and also temporarily opened more than 1,700 beds in the school's dormitory.
Businesses in Guazhou have also reached out to help. Hotels and guesthouses have kept their lives as low as possible**, and some even offer free accommodation just to give these unexpected guests a restful night's sleep. Local restaurants and snack bars have also stepped up to ensure that everyone has access to "warm" food.
In this heavy snowstorm, the railway department of Guazhou County also contributed. They urgently adjusted the train schedule and did their best to ensure that the stranded passengers were able to continue their journeys as soon as possible.
On the afternoon of February 18, the official Weibo of the Propaganda Department of the Guazhou County Party Committee "Guazhou Release" published an article ""Naan" and Slow to Return Home Wait until the Flowers Bloom Meet in Guazhou", "Because of the 'affectionate encounter' of wind and snow, the small city of Guazhou ushered in 250,000 stranded people. If you also came to Guazhou last night, there is a place where the hospitality is not good, I apologize to you, please bear with ......We sincerely invite you to stay until the spring season to come back to Guazhou.
Since the afternoon of February 18, with the resumption of traffic on the expressway, 2Among the more than 50,000 people, about 20,000 people have already driven away in an orderly manner through the two toll stations in Guazhou South and Guazhou North. Early this morning, the remaining 5,500 stranded people also left one after another. According to the statistics of the public security department, after the lifting of traffic control, there have been 4More than 10,000 vehicles and 9More than 550,000 passengers safely passed through the G30 Lianhuo Expressway Guazhou Liuyuan Public Security Checkpoint and left Gan and entered Xinjiang.
*: CCTV Network Comprehensive Workers**, Metropolis Express, Interface News, Guazhou Release.