China's not-so-happy New Year

In one of the biggest annual movements of humanity, about 200 million Chinese make roughly 2.2 billion trips over the Lunar New Year holiday. This year, Jack Frost made a guest appearance, causing massive travel delays, damaging key infrastructure, and disrupting coal shipments to power plants. 

How does China's winter disaster stack up against Hurricane Katrina? Here's a look: 

Fatalities	60	1,353
Damage	$7.5 billion	$96 billion
Evacuees	1.7 million	1.1 million
Homes damaged or destroyed	Over 1 million	300,000
Official visits	PM Wen Jiabao to Guangzhou	Bush to New Orleans
Industries affected	coal	oil & gas
Power supply	17 of 31 provinces in brownouts	2.5 million without power
Troops Deployed	500,000 soldiers, 1.6 million paramilitary	50,000 National Guard Troops

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