Get the shovels out

Up to 30cm (12 inches) of snow fell in China’s capital and its neighbouring port city of Tianjin over the weekend.

Thousands of travellers have been left stranded at Beijing’s international airport, and more than 30 highways across northern China are closed.

Officials have ordered residents into work groups to clear the snow and ice.

Heavy snowfall has also led to flight cancellations and delays in South Korea.

The snowfall over the weekend in Beijing was the most the capital has seen since 1951, according to local media reports.- BBC

Schools were closed and the public mobilized to help clear the roads. Want to bet many were schoolchildren and they weren’t paid for their labors?

I wonder if the China government acknowledges any weather records from before the 1949 revolution that put the communists in power.