National mourning period begins...

Today the 3-day national period of mourning began commemorating the Sichuan earthquake victims began. At exactly 2:28pm - exactly a week after the initial quake hit -3 minutes of silence were observed nationwide.

I was on the street at the time and ALL traffic came to a stop.

I saw whole office buildings practically emptied as employees huddled together in silence. This silence was soon punctuated by the wailing of air raid sirens and cars joined in with a steady blaring of their horns..

I'll upload my video of this later.

Edit: well, my video had too much glare from the sun so it wasn't that great. Instead, here's a link from CNN. It was a solemn moment