Chapter 680: Disaster Relief Begins.1
When these 100 biplane helicopters were sent to the military region by Zhao Hao, they were only put into disaster relief and rescue after a simple adaptation training, under the order of the great elder.
Today, when China has entered the era of national networking, the northwest region is still a mystery.
There are only a few large cities that can be called by name, and the infrastructure has been improving in recent years, and the ability to resist disasters is also relatively strong.
However, in some areas where the basic design is weaker, people are still adhering to the strategy of relying on the sky to eat.
Herding cattle and sheep, living in pursuit of water and grass, even isolated from the world, toiling every day.
There is a drought and lack of water, and the ecological environment is very fragile.
Once a disaster comes, just like this snowstorm that will last for more than a month, the disaster in the northwest region is particularly serious.
Only three days later, a thick layer of snow had accumulated throughout the entire territory of northern China.
In Yanjing, in this metropolis with complete infrastructure and a clear division of labor.
Even if the snow is heavy and continuous, the snow on the ground can reach your neck after each night.
But with the efforts of a large number of cleaning personnel, urban management, firefighters, police officers and armed police officers.
It often takes only a few hours, or even before dawn, for the snow to be cleared from the city's main roads, keeping the main traffic arteries clear.
In contrast, cities in the Midwest, and even sub-urban areas, are much less able to deal with snow disasters.
But by one morning at the latest, it will probably be cleaned up.
However, in some rural areas, as well as in more remote areas, there are no dedicated snow clearing staff at all.
Most of them are through the villagers, who spontaneously go to clear the snow in their homes and even in front of their doors.
If you are a little more industrious, you may also sweep the snow from the road near your home.
But when the snow will be completely cleared, it all depends on God's will.
This kind of thinking is in the past, naturally it doesn't have much to do with it, after all, snow is a thing, as long as the temperature rises, the sun will melt away.
However, this time is different, this so-called once-in-a-millennium snowstorm will continue to rain for a month!
It's only been three days, and the total snowfall in the western part of China, if you don't take the initiative to clean up, has completely covered an adult's thigh.
With a little prediction, it may only take about a week for the snow to completely bury people in it.
This means that areas with underdeveloped public facilities and public services such as villages and without many effective means of prevention and control will be completely isolated from the world by then.
Most of the villagers there can only survive on the food reserves at home.
However, in general, no family has enough food to store more than they need for a month.
In addition, the arrival of the heavy snowstorm is not only a disaster for the people, but also a strict test for the quality of various public facilities.
For example, power poles and wires, water pipes, gas pipelines, and even telephones, network towers, etc.
If all of the above facilities cannot be maintained in a timely manner during a snowstorm.
Then, in the process of clearing the snow during this whole month of heavy snowstorms, and even for a long time after that.
Those places that have been isolated by heavy snow will always be in primitive society!
This situation, not to mention in the central and western villages where the infrastructure is not so developed, even in the villages in the eastern coastal areas, in the first village in the world in China, the people there are also unable to cover it.
Therefore, the most urgent task of the state now is to quickly move those who are located in rural areas and even more remote areas to the cities through various means, and then properly resettle them.
This kind of payment cannot be considered for loss, and it is even faster.
After the first to ensure the safety of personnel, various follow-up measures followed.
In this snowstorm, most of the infrastructure in the western region, such as high-voltage power lines, power towers, and even power poles, may not be able to be saved.
Powering off is the best option, but it's also a difficult choice.
This will cause immeasurable losses to the country's hard work for many years, and it is also an important reason why the Great Elder immediately thought of asking Zhao Hao to disperse this snow disaster after learning about this snow disaster.
At the same time, not only in the western region, but also in the vast northern region of China, especially in the northeast and Inner Mongolia grasslands, various rescue operations are also being carried out one after another.
In recent days, as the heavy snow continues and the temperature drops suddenly, it is not uncommon to see news that a large number of cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland have been frozen to death.
In the Northeast, there have even been cases of sudden death of some elderly people due to low temperatures.
The rapid transfer of these personnel and even livestock is the top priority of disaster relief in China at this time!
In order to achieve this goal, the State has deployed almost all available helicopters to the task.
Among them, most of the 100 biplane helicopters donated by Zhao Hao were directly distributed to the vast western land, the most severely affected areas.
These things, which are called super helicopters by the personnel of various departments of the military region, can be described as extremely outstanding in all aspects.
Not only is it fast, has strong endurance and low fuel consumption, but also in terms of load, the maximum net load at one time can even reach hundreds of tons!
If it weren't for the size of this biplane helicopter, which is only half larger than the Osprey in service with the U.S. military, it can actually be used as a large carrier aircraft!
In the western region, where the disaster is most severe, some mountain villages with relatively few people can often complete all rescue operations at once with just one or two biplane helicopters.
And because of the strong load-bearing energy, some gathering places with fewer people, drivers and rescue armed police officers and soldiers will even allow villagers to carry some simple, small and easy-to-carry valuables.
For example, all kinds of jewelry, household treasures, and even mobile phones and computers and other tools.
In this way, the rescue operation lasted for three days.
In the case of hundreds or thousands of round-trips by many helicopter pilots, and overnight shifts.
After this snow disaster lasted less than a week, the early task of transferring personnel from various regions to disaster relief has been completed one after another!
The relocation of the snow disaster is undoubtedly a huge loss for the country and those villagers.
A large amount of possessions, livestock, farmland, greenhouses, and houses were abandoned.
A large number of public facilities have been covered with snow, buried and destroyed, and the achievements of the country and the people over the years may also be completely wasted.
But as long as people are there, everything is easy to say.
As this snow disaster continues, the snowfall continues to increase, and more and more countries and regions in the world have begun to pay attention to the disaster faced by China.
Especially those Western media, their media signals cover the whole world, and their country's satellite monitoring system, meteorological personnel, and scientific and technological level also boast of being the best on the earth.
As long as they look at the satellite cloud image, they can understand what kind of situation China is facing now.
In addition to the symbolic donation of a negligible amount of relief money for Huaxia by the governments of these countries.
Most of their media are still exaggerating all kinds of Chinese threat theories.
Some media people who are too much will even claim in front of the camera that the snow disaster is deserved by the Chinese people.
It was they who tried to rule the world through evil virtual technology, and in turn invited the judgment of their God.
Then, the general situation of the snow disaster was reported, as well as further analysis and deduction of this large-scale natural disaster, which is extremely rare in human history.
Judging from the density of clouds and atmospheric activity, the duration of the snow storm is predicted, and in their predictions, the snow disaster should last for at least half a month.
Immediately afterwards, there are statistics and speculations about Huaxia's losses in all aspects.
Of course, some media professionals and scholars with a long-term vision have also begun to predict the next flood disaster that China will face.
However, in the face of such schadenfreude speeches and reports, the Chinese government did not pay attention.
Except for some enthusiastic netizens who showed righteous indignation against these reports from the foreign media, no one at the government and official level paid any attention to them.
At the same time, at a recent regular press conference, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China officially rejected the request of disaster relief teams from all over the world to enter the country and help the disaster area.
Subsequently, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared in front of many world media reporters present that the Chinese people and the heroic people's soldiers have the ability to deal with this rare natural disaster!