If you thought full-bladdered RI schoolchildren stuck on 95 was bad, think again. Massive snowstorms have left over 200,000 people stuck at the train station in Guangzhou, in the southern province of Guangdong.

Among the worst-hit cities is southern Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province that borders Hong Kong. The province is one of China’s most important manufacturing regions, with thousands of factories making everything from T-shirts to electronics staffed by millions of migrant workers from poorer inland provinces.

Hundreds of thousands of those workers, many with young children, found themselves stranded at the Guangzhou railway station after snowstorms snapped power lines to passenger trains from neighboring Hunan province, an important hub for trains on the main line between Guangzhou and Beijing.

My alternate headline was going to be: “Guangzhou train station has longer lines than a Democratic polling place in Ohio.”

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