Braving the snow and wind, Google helps us return.

Perhaps none of us expected that the way home this year would seem especially long and hard. The focus of the Spring Festival travel rush is no longer on the difficulty of buying tickets, but on the difficulty of traveling (of course, there are probably also a lot of people like me who have difficulty both buying tickets and traveling). Several of my colleagues were in the vanguard of our company's Spring Festival travel rush a few days ago, but not one of them was able to successfully evade the snowstorm. Two of them happily went to Guangzhou to take the train home, but the station broadcast said that their train could not depart. After freezing for a whole day, they could only return to the company disappointedly; some colleagues were even more unlucky - though going back to Changsha, they had to detour through Wuhan; still other colleagues were stranded on the way home, and every day they could only rely on some hard-to-eat dry rations to maintain their energy.

Now it's good news, Google has urgently launched a Spring Festival travel traffic map to help us timely understand road conditions. On Google's "Spring Festival Travel Traffic Map", icons add weather-related information to the existing electronic maps. Clicking on the weather icon above an important city along the Spring Festival travel route will cause a popup on the map with detailed weather information for that city.