On New Year's Day 2008, people were celebrating the arrival of the New Year.

Except for Qi Zheng, no one knew that a catastrophe was quietly and silently descending on the land of China.

Until December last year, no one expected this winter to be so harsh, although the weather department predicted that this winter would be cold.

Qi Zheng specifically asked Jiagu agriculture and Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry to do a good job of cold protection, especially pig farms and pastures.

Although there were some surprises that Qi Zheng attached great importance to cold protection, because of the reminder of the weather forecast, the two responsible persons did not neglect it and immediately arranged the cold prevention work.

And Qi Zheng is running around, but no one knows what he is busy with.

On 9 January, the Meteorological Observatory said in its latest weather forecast that a cold air front from Western Siberia had reached the western border area of the country that morning and was expected to continue to move eastward.

Such a forecast is a routine report for meteorologists, because China's climate is characterized by such cold air at this time.

They didn't realize that the cold air that had always come from the west road was different from previous years, and they didn't realize the hidden "killing machine" of this cold wave.

The cold wave needed for a blizzard is already in place. But this cold wave alone is not enough to cause a disaster.

However, another important anomaly this year is that the subtropical high, which was supposed to leave southern China during this season, did not leave, and the southwest warm and humid airflow strengthened three times during this period.

In this way, all the warm and cold air that forms the blizzard is ready.

No one noticed this, even Qi Zheng, who only knew the result, but not the reason.

In such a dramatic way, the catastrophic rain and snow weather hit the army of immigrants and the entire land of China that were about to embark on the journey of the Spring Festival.

On January 18, 2008, the national Spring Festival was launched ahead of schedule, and the Spring Festival was adjusted from 15 days before the festival to 21 days before the festival and 25 days after the holiday, which was 6 days earlier than the previous national Spring Festival transportation that began on January 23.

It was from this day that heavy to heavy snowfall occurred in Hubei Province, Suzhou Province and Ontario Province, and China experienced the largest range of rain and snow weather since the beginning of winter. Such bad weather undoubtedly made the Spring Festival travel even worse for the largest migration of people in peacetime.

The cold wave that came from above the nine days launched a large-scale attack, and the extreme weather such as rare low temperatures, rain, snow and ice was fierce. Ice and snow quickly covered 1.26 million square kilometers in 17 provinces in southern China.

According to meteorological common sense, the further south you go in the Northern Hemisphere, the warmer the climate. However, in this ice and snow disaster, on the contrary, the provinces in China that have suffered the most from the frost are the southern provinces.

On January 21, the state issued an emergency notice against rain, snow and ice.

At this time, there were already stranded people at railway stations in many places, and the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway also showed signs of bad results.

The cold wave is gradually approaching Hunan Province with a more arrogant attitude, approaching the standing high-voltage power tower, approaching the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, the main artery of the Spring Festival, and approaching the crowd of returnees who are like arrows......

January 25, mountainous area in southern Hunan Province.

A huge transmission tower had been held up for a week in the snow and freezing rain, and the finger-thick wires on the power poles were tightly wrapped in the frozen ice, becoming thicker than an arm, and the tall power tower finally could not hold it anymore and collapsed with a bang, and the steel frame hung down like twisted flowers.

A 100,000-volt high-voltage line is set up on a 25,000-volt railway catenary below. From this moment on, the Beijing-Guangzhou line, the main artery running through the north and south of China, was cut off.

The ice and snow disaster in the south has entered its most severe moment.

Many airports are closed at different times due to snow, ice and other reasons, resulting in a large number of flights returning, diverting or canceling.

In terms of highways, a large number of vehicles and people were stranded due to road congestion and closures. Some sections of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway are impassable due to icy roads, and many national highways have been closed......

In addition to the frozen traffic, there is also the power grid that has been crushed by snow, and the continuous freezing rain has caused ice cover, causing damage to part of the power grid in the south. The power supply gap has further widened, and 17 provinces across the country have been forced to cut power.

The traffic is in danger, the power is in danger, and the south is in an emergency......

Transportation is paralyzed, electricity is paralyzed, and prices are rising...... The result is the same as the purpose of modern warfare, but unlike the opponents of human warfare, this time the enemy is the fickleness of nature.

If you look at the entire Northern Hemisphere at this time, you can see that blizzards are everywhere.

In East Asia, South Korea has seen record-breaking snowfalls, in the Middle East, snowfall is widespread and unseen in decades, in South Asia, the lowest temperatures are close to freezing, North America has been hit by a heavy snowstorm, and Western Europe, where winters have not been too cold in the past, have not escaped this brutal climate test......

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At the headquarters of Jiagu, looking out, the park was covered by ice and snow, and the big trees were overwhelmed by the heavy burden of ice, and without exception, they were "broken arms and limbs".

But no one paid attention to this. It's icy and snowy outside, and the staff who are working overtime indoors are busy.

"We have been in contact with pig farms and ranches all over the country. At present, due to the cold protection work that has been done for a long time, pigs and dairy cows have been properly arranged, and there is no shortage of feed. Even if there is a power outage in the area where one pig farm is located, the situation is quite optimistic with its own generator...... "Wang Yuye first reported to Qi Zheng that the farms in the Jiagu system are most likely to have problems, but fortunately there is no major problem.

"What about the factories and warehouses in various places?" Qi Zheng asked.

"The soybean crushing plant and the beer and dairy processing plants are all closed because of the Spring Festival holiday, so there are no workers to resettle except for the necessary personnel, and the factory area is not crushed by heavy snow...... Wang Yuye replied.

The Jiagu system did not lag behind at such a moment, and Qi Zheng was very satisfied.

"How's our preparedness going?"

After confirming that the Jiagu system itself was not too damaged, Qi Zheng quickly activated Jiagu's disaster relief plan.

Wang Yuye coordinated in the middle, some employees canceled their vacations, and the heads of major subsidiaries went to various provinces to arrange disaster relief.

Wang Yuye said: "The materials have been prepared and the personnel have been arranged. ”

Qi Zheng nodded: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

Wang Yuye shook his head: "Now, the most important thing is to open up transportation and restore electricity. There's only so much we can do......"

Transportation and electricity are indeed key points, and they affect each other.

Heavy snow broke the power grid, making it impossible for electrified trains to run, preventing the power plant from getting the coal it urgently needed, blocking the flow of people and materials, and throwing normal life into chaos. The icing of roads and airports has made the railroad's plight even more prominent.

Transportation depends on electricity, which in turn depends on energy, and energy depends on transportation......

Qi Zheng didn't say anything, he looked at the south, thinking in his heart, and he didn't know how effective the arrangement some time ago would be?

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