CHAPTER XXII

"What time is it?"

"Two twenty."

"Sleep again?"

"Let's sleep again."

......

On December 12, Han Donglei and Wang Mei lay numb on the bed. Today is the seventh day of Blizzard, and during these seven days, both of them are at home and afraid to go out. They live on the second floor, and now the snow has covered half of the windowsill, and you can't see the shadow downstairs.

There is a foreign couple living downstairs in his house, and the two went down to take a look yesterday, and the little couple is fine, but the window is buried in snow. They were worried that the snow would push the windows down, and they moved the wardrobe with them. They are twenty years old. The community is located on the outskirts of Liaohe City, and now the community is surrounded by white, as if it were a forgotten island.

At two thirty, Wang Mei couldn't sleep, moved her body and asked, "Won't bury the second floor?"

"Not sure." Now Longbei has snowed 12mm in 20 hours, and it may continue to increase from tonight to tomorrow, which is a big day after tomorrow... Not exactly.

Wang Mei got up and went to the toilet. Three meters from the bedroom to the toilet, the house has floor heating on, and I am freezing when I walk two steps.

She had just gone back to the bedroom when her phone rang.

"Are you all right with my dad?" As soon as the phone was connected, her daughter asked anxiously.

"It's okay, we've been at home." My daughter was studying in Longnan, and the two turned on a ten-minute video, and only then reluctantly hung up the video.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Mei called Shangshi Village. Now the two old men are in the house, and the snow is so thick outside that the house is half buried.

"Alas." Wang Mei sighed, although the hometown side was fine, she was still not at ease.

"Don't worry too much, it won't be down for the next two days." Han Donglei said with relief.

The two chatted for a while, Wang Mei got out of bed and turned on the TV, just three minutes after the power went on in the house.

Half an hour later, the property of the community noticed: [Kaixuan Road 239 high-voltage wire was pressed, all power outages in Fengyun District, and the power outage time is uncertain. (Expected after the eighteenth)]

"Eighteen?" Wang Mei was taken aback, it was only the twelfth today.

"The charging treasure still has 20% of the power, so we both save some use." Han Donglei said.

Wang Mei looked at her phone, she is now 39% battery, and she does not feel safe.

The two told their friends and relatives about the battery of their mobile phones, and then looked at the roof in a daze. Now that it was snowing and without electricity, and there was no sunlight in the house, they felt the panic of isolation for the first time. For the next three days, a cold wind howled outside. The two tried it with a thermometer, and now the outdoor temperature is minus 40, which is the lowest value in the Liaohe River in nearly three decades.

On December 15, the wind outside finally became quieter. Han Donglei pushed the window, there was snow outside the window, he hesitated and went out in a down coat.

"It's all blocked."

"Can't get out."

The entrance to the building was buried in snow, and several first-floor neighbors were observing the situation.

Han Donglei stepped forward, pushed the snow at the door and asked, "This is five meters?"

A neighbor said, "Seven meters two." Everyone

: !!!

Three minutes later, everyone climbed to the entrance of the third floor. Their neighborhood is low, and looking through the corridor window, the second floor below is covered with snow. Although the road in the distance is not so exaggerated, it is a vast snow, and only a few pine trees can be recognized.

"It's too big."

"First time I've seen such heavy snow."

......

There have been heavy snowfalls in the Liao River before, but this is the first time it has been hit by such a serious one.

Everyone stayed on the third floor for a while and contacted the residential property. They are the family homes of the steel mills, and the sanitary snow removal is the responsibility of the steel mill.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the property drove three diesel forklifts from the factory, and the snow sweeping work tossed until midnight, before clearing a path from each corridor to the gate of the community. Han Donglei and Wang Mei went downstairs in cotton jackets, the snow in the middle of the road was piled on both sides, Wang Mei was one meter six tall, looking at the sides at this time, she felt that she was not in her own community, but in the ice and snow world.

These snows were all snowflakes condensed by acid rain, and the two did not dare to stay longer, so they walked around and went home. The snowflakes on the windows of the house were shoveled down by a shovel, and they had opened the windows to ventilate before going out, the first time in half a month.

In the early hours of December 16, the two fell asleep amid the sound of shoveling snow.

Early the next morning, Wang Mei had just woken up and only heard a knock at the door, she thought that the property was asking about the situation, and opened the door without thinking.

"Meizi, are you all right?" The door had just opened, and a pair of old men stood in the doorway.

"Mom and Dad?" Wang Mei was stunned for a moment.

"Call you, no one answers."

"The phone is dead." Wang Mei pointed to the mobile phone on the table.

After the power outage at home, she and Han Donglei have been saving the power of their mobile phones, but the standby of the mobile phones is weak, and since the morning of the 14th, the two have completely turned off the phone. They went downstairs yesterday to watch the snow and forgot to borrow a mobile phone charging treasure.

"I told you two days ago that the power poles in the community are broken..." Wang Meidao.

"We're okay, today there are diesel engines coming to the city, so we followed." Dad Wang smiled.

Wang Mei looked at the two pant legs. Although the two came over by rubbing the car, they were all soaked under their thighs. She got up and went back to the bedroom, and after a while, she found two clean cotton pants: "This is me and Donglei, you guys change first." The

old couple did not shirk, and after they changed, they made up for sleep in the bedroom.

When Wang Mei returned to the master bedroom, Han Donglei was wearing cotton pants.

"Sleep, don't get up." Wang Meidao.

Han Donglei got back into the bed: "The snow hasn't melted yet, how can I say it's coming."

Wang Mei didn't speak, just red eyes.

"What's wrong?" Han Donglei was taken aback.

"It's okay, I just remembered when I was a child." Wang Mei is forty-seven years old, and just now looking at Father Wang's pants, she suddenly remembered that it snowed when she was seven years old, and her father carried her to school. At that time, my father did not have white hair, his shoulders were very broad, and his legs squeaked into the snow.

Now forty years later, her father is not as tall as her, and occasionally when discussing anything at home, she communicates in a rushed tone. She always thought that when she grew up, her parents needed to be taken care of. But the moment the second elder opened the door just now, she understood that no matter how old she was, she was a child in the eyes of her parents.

That afternoon, the second elder woke up and prepared to go home, now there are snowplows outside, Wang Mei did not dare to let the two go back, and the two lived in the community. After five days of shoveling snow in the complex, vehicles on both sides of the green belt finally revealed their silhouettes.

When Wang Mei's family heard the news, they quickly wore boots and went downstairs.

"Which one is ours?"

"Completely indistinguishable."

When Wang Mei and Han Donglei arrived at the green belt, many owners were looking for cars. Want Want community is an old community, and everyone generally parks their cars on both sides of the green belt. At this time, both sides of the green belt are all silhouettes of a car, as for which is which... Completely indistinguishable.

Wang Mei and Han Donglei searched for half an hour and finally found their car.

There was 80 centimeters of snow on the car, and Han Donglei shoveled it down.

"I don't know if it's crushed..." Wang Mei was a little distressed, their car was an SUV bought last year, and it landed on fifteen or seventeen.

Wang Mei shoveled with Han Donglei, and after a while, the car was all exposed.

"It's not broken." Han Donglei breathed a sigh of relief. But half a minute later, the breath that had just been relieved was all lifted again. His car was not crushed, but it was full of rust spots, and some could see the iron sheet under the paint when touched by hand.

"Why so many rust spots?"

"Smell choked."

......

At this time, there were complaints from other owners around. Han Donglei walked over to check that the other vehicles were similar to their homes, some had their roofs off paint, and some had their engine covers off paint. Everyone looked at the car and then at the snow around them. Once again, I realized a serious question: these are not ordinary blizzards, but acid snow condensed by Halma's acid rain.

"The snow in front of my house has melted, a pool of sewage, it smells so bad."

"After playing in the snow for two days, my throat itched, as if I had a respiratory infection."

"Everyone must pay attention to acid rain protection!"

......

In the next two days, many Longbei netizens shared their own snow scenes. Corroding car covers, corroding buildings, smelling bad snow... Due to acid rain condensation, this year's snow scene is as white as in previous years, but it is very corrosive. According to the detection of Longbei meteorological unit, the PH value of Longbei snow cover is less than 4.0, and the acidity is higher than that of Longnan flood.

Rapid freezing is now occurring in 70% of the planted areas. Longbei is the vegetable basket of the country, and after this snowfall, the country is completely facing a vegetable crisis.

Everyone has not yet recovered from the Longbei disaster, and Longbei is once again facing two problems: 1, the snow is not cold. Since the 19th, Longbei has faced an average temperature of minus 20 degrees, according to the meteorological observatory, between December 22-28, the lowest temperature in Longbei can reach minus 50 degrees, and Longbei will face a once-in-a-century freeze.

2, Longbei shelter forest affected by acid snow, now a large area of trees frozen to death, the damage area is estimated to be one million square kilometers, Longbei three generations of protection workers hard work in one fell swoop.

"A Halma's acid rain, should it be so terrifying?" Some netizens looked at the snow disaster map of the Longbei shelter forest and felt that their noses were sour.

Longbei shelter forest is a key ecological project of Longxia. The project began in 2950 and has been carried out for 78 years, with countless people's efforts and the joint efforts of so many foresters to plant the barren land into the green it is now. And so many people worked hard, because of an acid rain, a acid snow, all ruined ...

"This year has passed, what will happen next year?" Some netizens are confused.

In the confusion, Longbei people did not forget to ridicule: "I thought that Longnan was the most serious disaster this year, but I didn't expect that at the end of the small year, the big Longbei counterattacked."

Although

everyone ridiculed, this was a meaningless counterattack, and no one wanted to counterattack.