half a million

[totient]

500,000 is a very big number. Especially when it's the number of people stranded at a single train station, in Guangzhou. I say "at" and not "in" because, of course, they don't fit inside.

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[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

I think I've been in that train station. Fortunately I wasn't stranded there.

The taxi ride from there to my hotel was one of the scariest I've ever had.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

V and I were stranded at that station one fine morning. Fortunately I called my friend R, who picked us up from the station forecourt and took us to breakfast.

It's a reasonably large station, although the newer Guangzhou East station is larger. I understand they're replacing the existing Guangzhou Main station building with one four times as large, sometime this year.

In any case, a half million people certainly won't fit.

Wonder where they're all going to the bathroom? The food vendors in that neighborhood--and there are many--must be making out like bandits.

[smashrgrl.livejournal.com]

ooh. I saw this story today. That sucks.

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

I was in that station, October 2000. It's a big station, which makes that crowd that much more impressive. There are an awful lot of people in China, and the crowds everywhere are so much denser than here that it's hard to describe. But I was never stuck in a crowd quite like that.