Seeing that the staff of the hotel were in the yard and wanted to push the car parked in the yard to prevent it from being flooded, Xie Zhi saw that there was a shortage of people below, so she beckoned the entourage to go downstairs to help.

Xie Zhi and her entourage went downstairs and saw that the water in the courtyard was knee-high, and it was about to flood the steps in front of the foyer.

The hotel has long been aware of this problem, and two staff members came out with a small cart, filled with sandbags, and piled sandbags around the high platform in front of the foyer to prevent the water from rising further into the building.

The entourage braved the rain to help push the cart, and almost in the blink of an eye, the rain was drenched, and the clothes were wet and sticking to their bodies. With such a heavy rain, Xie Zhi rushed into the yard and couldn't help much, so she stood under the eaves of the door, making the raindrops fall on her arms, and she felt pain, thinking that she was used to living in the tropics, and it was rare to see such a heavy rainstorm, and it was more than an hour at a time, with a sigh of relief.

Seeing a woman next to her, like the manager of the hotel, Xie Zhi asked her: "How could Yushan be so flooded?" In her impression, the altitude of the county seat of Yuanshan is nearly 200 meters higher than that of the plain area outside the mountain, and no matter how heavy the rain is, it will not flood the guest house of the Yushan County Government.

"The old town is a basin, surrounded by mountains, but very low in the middle. And the northwest corner of our side is the lowest in the city, that is, the crucian carp mouth that goes out of the Dongyu River, the riverbed is more than two or three meters higher than this side, such a heavy rain, it rains for more than an hour, the rain on the slopes of the four sides, all flow to this side, our side is not flooded is called strange. The hotel manager seemed to have experience in flooding, looking at the flooded yard, he was not so nervous, knowing that Xie Zhi was an important guest in the county, and commanded the staff to build sandbags, and did not forget to explain the doubts in her heart.

Xie Zhi recalled that before entering the county seat of Yuanshan, the car did drive through a gentle slope, but she didn't expect it to be the hurdle, blocking the rainwater in the old town of Yuanshan and not leaking out in time.

The guest house of the county government is located in the northwest corner of the old city, the scale is not large, the main building where Xie Zhi and the entourage live, it is also four stories high, but the blue brick and tile lacquered wood railing, built very distinctively, consistent with the style of the ancient city, clean and tidy, live a lot of tourists.

Looking at the movement in the yard, many tourists also came down to see the excitement or enthusiastic to help, Xie Zhi listened to these people talking, it was too early to start emergency measures in Yushan County, yesterday morning began to urge tourists stranded in the wild to return, many tourists withdrew from the mountains and stayed in hostels in the old city.

Xie Zhi saw that Yushan County was prepared, and watched the car push to a high place, so she went back to her room, talked to Hongqi on the phone, and listened to the sound of rain outside the window that seemed to be quieter, so she washed up and went to bed.

In a daze, listening to a lot of movement in the yard, Xie Zhi sat up and reached out to turn on the switch of the bedside lamp, "snapped" several times, but the bedside lamp did not respond at all.

Seeing that it was also pitch black outside the window, Xie Zhi didn't know what was going on, and even called the power outage at the hotel. She took advantage of the faint light of the mobile phone screen to get dressed in the dark, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw the hotel manager who was talking downstairs before coming from the other end of the aisle with a flashlight:

"Mr. Xie, you haven't slept yet? The county power supply bureau temporarily notified that all the flooded areas in the north were cut off. We didn't expect the water to be so big, the ground floor was flooded with a table, and the spare diesel engine in the basement was also flooded, so we can't use it now, so we can only use flashlights and candles for the time being, I'm really sorry......"

There are also some residences, holding mobile phones and BB machines that can light up from all sides, and looking into the aisle to see what is going on: the power is suddenly cut off, or it makes people a little unreliable.

Xie Zhi took the flashlight handed over by the hotel manager, walked to the room, and looked into the courtyard outside the window.

Moreover, the raindrops were like soybean grains, falling all over the sky and crackling.

Due to the power outage, it was pitch black outside, allowing people to see a little bit of the situation in the county.

The staff of the hotel handed out candles to the guests next to the room, and some guests asked why the county cut off the power at this juncture, and the staff also patiently explained that there had been an electric shock casualty accident in some places, and in order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, the county temporarily decided to completely cut off the power in the flooded areas, and the power supply would not be restored until the water receded; the hotel was also temporarily notified.

Listening to the movement downstairs, Xie Zhi realized that the guests on the first floor had been forced to evacuate to the second floor, and due to the lack of empty rooms, the hotel staff was coordinating to hope that the guests could share as much as possible.

Xie Zhi asked the entourage and the driver to merge into two rooms, and asked the accompanying female assistant to move to her room, giving up four rooms for the evacuated guests on the ground floor.

After the power was cut off, the landline was affected and could not be dialed, Xie Zhi took out her mobile phone, the signal was very weak, and she tried to dial several calls in a row, but she couldn't get through, and I don't know if the signal base station was affected in the rainstorm.

Cut off from the outside world, the rain outside did not decrease at all, and everyone was trapped in the hotel. Fortunately, there were many people, and there was no panic, so they couldn't sleep, so many people simply put candles together and started poker.

The rain outside was sometimes heavy and sometimes light, but the water in the yard did not recede at all, and continued to rise inch by inch.

At dawn, the rainstorm finally stopped, the sky showed bright colors, looking at the clouds a lot thinner, no longer cloudy, but the courtyard wall of the hotel has been flooded with water, from the stairs down, you can see that the first floor is less than half a meter of space left without flooding.

At this time, when I looked out of the window, I saw that as far as the eye could see, there was a vast ocean.

The old town, especially the northern area, is dominated by old bungalows. At this time, I saw that a large number of low-rise flat-story houses were directly submerged in the water, and only the black roof ridge was exposed to the water.

The few buildings with more than six or seven floors seem to be isolated islands towering in the water, and the entire county seems to have become a big lake.

From the canopy of trees that emerge from the surface, you can roughly identify the direction of the street, and the water that divides the ridges and lonely buildings is filled with the corpses of dogs, cats, and livestock floating in addition to miscellaneous items such as furniture.

Xie Zhi was a little dumbfounded, before nightfall yesterday, she never thought that Yushan would be so seriously flooded.

It's just that the light is still very dark now, standing in front of the window, you can't see too far, the terrain of Yuanshan County is high and low, I heard the hotel manager say that this is the northwest corner of the county, it should be the lowest place in the city, Xie Zhi is not clear about the extent of flooding in other parts of Yuanshan County.

The landline and mobile phone are not connected, and now it seems that it has temporarily lost contact with the outside world, and it is completely unclear about the extent of flooding in other parts of the county, let alone how big the impact of the heavy rain that lasted overnight yesterday on the whole city of Donghua.

The crowd was trapped in a lonely building, and even the buildings in front of and behind the hotel could only be contacted by shouting, and it was not until eight o'clock that the guests remembered to take the radio with them and take it out to listen to the radio.

The county only knows that nearly half of the county has been flooded, and the towns scattered in the mountains may be more serious, but there is no way to accurately estimate it for a while. There are several mountain ranges along the Yuanpu Highway that go out of the mountain, which have been washed away by heavy rains, blocking the road into the mountain, and a large amount of mud and rocks carried down by the mudslide have entered the Dongyu River, causing a certain amount of siltation and affecting the drainage of waterlogging.

In addition to Yuanshan, Xiapu, Jiangyan, Xinjin, and other counties were also not lightly affected, and the water levels of the Meixi River and Yuanxi River all soared overnight.

The kitchen on the ground floor of the hotel was flooded and the electricity was cut off, so everyone had to eat bread or dry chew instant noodles to satisfy their hunger.

Some of the residents were worried that the foundation of the hotel building would not withstand the big blisters, and they were somewhat panicked; at this time, except for the hotel staff, no government functionaries showed up to come to the disaster, and some people also bred a lot of dissatisfaction, and they all scolded these officials for only knowing how to collect and scrape, but at this time they did not care whether they lived or died.

Xie Zhi also had no way to contact Xiao Haomin, Feng Yumei and others in Yuanshan County, but knowing that she was still good in the hotel, the key was that there were so many flooded bungalow residents, and they didn't know if these residents had evacuated in time.

At about ten o'clock, there was an assault boat coming, and there were two martial arts spirits among the three people, and after moving a few boxes of supplies into the building, they found Xie Zhi through the manager of the hotel, and the middle-aged man headed by a county party committee officer surnamed Liu told her: "Secretary Song can't contact you, call the county, Secretary Liang asked me to come over and take you to the county." ”

The assault boat was too small to evacuate Xie Zhi and his entourage, let alone evacuate nearly 200 staff and guests from the four buildings of the hotel.

Among the entourage, Xie Zhi could only ask the vice president of the company to go to the county with her first; when she got on the boat, she heard someone behind her abusing her, and she didn't respond anything.

After getting on the boat and asking Secretary Liu, Xie Zhi learned more details about the disaster.

Since the water was rising inch by inch, the evacuation of the low-lying old town had been organized long before the rainstorms, so the residents of the flooded bungalow area were evacuated in time.

In contrast, although the county government guest house was built on low ground, it was more or less a "high-rise building", so it was ignored in the emergency relief last night and in the morning.

Except for one person who was unfortunately electrocuted in the county, there were no more casualties for the time being, but the disaster in the towns below was more serious. The garrisons that entered the mountains yesterday either went up to the river embankment to rescue the emergency, or went to the Yuanshan Lake dam, or went to the most severely affected townships and towns on foot, while county leaders like Xiao Haomin and Feng Yumei all went to the townships and towns separately last night.

Although the county had made some preparations in advance, it did not take into account that such a heavy rainstorm would continue to rain for many hours.

Such a serious flood disaster has not been encountered in Yushan County for decades, and all parties are somewhat caught off guard.

The only good news is that the embankments along the banks have withstood the test and there is no such extreme danger as the embankment bursting; the Yuanshan Lake Reservoir opened its gates yesterday ahead of schedule to release water, but it was held up during last night's torrential rain, and it was delayed until early this morning, when the torrential rain stopped, and the gates were opened again to release the pressure on the reservoir capacity.

Because the floodgates of the Yuanshan Lake Reservoir have been opened, and the downstream section of the river has been blocked by a large amount of mud and rocks poured into the muddy flow, even if it does not rain in the next two days, it will be difficult for the flooding of the county seat to recede.

Xiapu County has already dispatched an engineering team to repair the Yuanpu Highway, and the more urgent task in Xiapu County at present is to prevent mudslides from continuing to silt up in the middle reaches of Dongyu River and forming a dangerous dammed lake.

In that case, there would be a greater threat to the downstream region.

If the two tasks are carried out at the same time, no one knows when the road will be completed, and until then, there may be a shortage of supplies in the county at any time.