Chapter 82: The Tragedy of Natural Disasters
The continuous rains in June caused great disasters to the entire provinces and cities on both sides of the river. The fourth red alert has been issued in a row in the upstream of the southern city www.biquge.info of Pen, Qu and Ge, but the surging river seems to be endlessly refreshing the warning line of the upstream reservoir.
On the first day of the rainstorm, people were still cheering, and the rolling heat wave was finally stopped.
The day after the rains, some people began to complain about the inconvenience of traveling......
On the third day, there was a backflow of drainage outlets in some urban areas......
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On the fifth day, the first alarm sounded at the gate of Fushui Town upstream - the river embankment pipe surged!
In just five days, the first line of defense of the Jianghuai water system broke the embankment on the night of the fifth day......
The roaring river poured down, hitting the flood control facilities of the upstream provinces and cities all the way. Jianghuai province has done flood prevention this year very early, and even has spare capacity to support upstream cities. However, in the face of the surging river, manpower is so small.
When the river rushed all the way to the city of Dantu, which is only more than 1,000 kilometers away from Jianghuai Province, it was stopped by Kankan, and the roaring dragon wandered and crashed in the giant reservoir of the city, and everyone knew that if the rain did not stop, the flood discharge of the one-way reservoir would be a matter of time.
The administrative order was quickly issued from the provinces and cities to the townships and towns, and all the residents along the coast were transferred out day and night. Located on the edge of Jianghuai Province and bordering upstream cities, intermarriage is more common among residents, and almost every family has relatives and friends affected by the disaster. This year's flood control project in Nancheng started early, and disaster prevention propaganda has been done for a long time, so many people rushed overnight to bring relatives and friends affected by the disaster to Nancheng for refuge.
Zhang Xiaoyu's parents went out of the city under this circumstance. Zhang Xiaoyu's mother's hometown is a town downstream of One Way City, less than 8 hours' drive from Nancheng, after Zhang Xiaoyu's family settled in the city, when she saw the news of the disaster in her hometown, her mother couldn't sit still, after all, her brothers and parents are still in their hometown!
Zhang Xiaoyu's parents accompanied her to take the entrance exam, and when they saw Zhang Xiaoyu finish the last English test, the two told Xiaoyu to pay attention to safety, entrust it to the neighbors, and hurried back to their hometown.
At that time, the cumulonimbus clouds in the sky were pressed on top of each other, as if there was no end in sight. Zhang Xiaoyu was still immersed in the great joy of liberation after the exam, leaning against the door, waving sweetly at his parents who were traveling far away in the rain, going early and returning early.
That night, however, the rain intensified. The precarious situation faced the last straw that broke the camel's back. No one expected that the reservoir in One-Way City had not yet reached its limit, and Fangling Mountain, where One-Way City was located, had collapsed!
The torrential rain rolled down the heavy mud of the rocks on Fangling Mountain, roaring and roaring. With the rolling sound, the thunder engulfed the thick trees in the arms of the mountain, and overturned the rocks weighing thousands of catties...... In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains shook...... Mudslides, appeared!
That night, when the bus that Zhang Xiaoyu's parents were riding in entered Fangling Mountain, it was stopped by the muffled thunder. The bus stopped in a town on the outskirts and refused to venture into the mountains.
At night, the power system was far less developed than it was more than a decade later, and the mountainous areas could barely see their fingers at night. The driver asked everyone not to move around at will, and tried to park in the car to ensure safety.
The moment when the ground movement happened. There was an old man in the car who shouted in despair: "It's gone!" It's gone! The earth dragon is going to turn over!! The driver didn't say a word, started the bus and turned around on the road.
The dark mountain road, the headlights of the bus are dazzling in the rainstorm, and the grim reaper behind you is racing against time!
However, at the moment when she heard the old man shouting "go away", Zhang Xiaoyu's mother was a spirit! Growing up at the foot of Fangling Mountain, she knows too well the meaning of walking Jiao, which refers to the catastrophe of the mudslide, the bad news passed down by the ancestors, once the Jiao, ten villages and nine extinctions!
Her eyes suddenly welled up with huge teardrops, the whole person was wooden, her mouth read the name of her younger brother, and muttered to her mother, she knew that the sound of the mudslide spread to the outside of the mountain, I am afraid that at this moment the village and relatives of her hometown have ceased to exist!
Zhang Xiaoyu's father saw her lover collapse, hugged her tightly, comforted her lover's back, and comforted her in a low voice. After a long time, Zhang Xiaoyu's mother seemed to ease up, whimpering in an extremely suppressed voice, and roaring out of tune: "Home is gone!! Lao Zhang! I don't have a home anymore! That's my mom! It's my dad! And my brother!! He's only going to talk about his daughter-in-law this year!! Lao Zhang, my family is gone—"
It was dark and slippery, the road was very difficult to walk, the bus drove overnight, and only drove less than 40 kilometers of mountain road when the sky was clear. After the driver looked relatively safe, he parked the car in a slightly wider area next to him to rest. Looking back, Fang Ling Mountain in the glimmer of dawn behind him was like a giant beast entrenched, extremely hideous.
Most of the people in the car were returning to their hometowns for disaster relief, and they were shocked and remembered that their family members in front of them were unlucky, and their feelings were very sad. Zhang Xiaoyu's father put his arms around his lover and comforted him, and when he saw that the atmosphere in the car was dull, he took her out of the car slowly. Despite the heavy rain outside, there was some fresh air.
As soon as she got out of the car, Zhang Xiaoyu's mother fell to the ground with a soft foot. I don't care about the torrential rain, I don't care about the muddy mountain road staining my clothes. She was full of tears, and her fingers were fiercely picking at the mountain road.
"Ah Fang, don't do this! Hurry up, everybody is watching. Don't be too upset, hurt your body! But she seemed to be weighing a thousand pounds on her body, no matter how her lover pulled, she was stubbornly picked up on the road, as if she had touched the faces of her relatives through the ground under her fingers.
"Lao Zhang, you don't care about me. I love you, you go. Let me stay here, you leave me alone, let me go with my mother. ”
"Ah Fang! Fang! Zhang Xiaoyu's father was frightened, desperately pulling her lover's arm to pull her up, and kept persuading: "Ah Fang, think about me, think about Xiaoyu in our family!" ”
"Xiaoyu is still waiting for you to go back at home, and my mother is not happy to see you like this! Let's get up quickly, go back to see Xiaoyu, and when the water recedes, we'll come back...... Come back to my mom......"
However, at this time, Zhang Xiaoyu's mother had a complete nervous breakdown, and her mind was a child for a while, a lover for a while, and a time when she was a child in her mother's house......
She muttered to herself in confusion: "Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu is waiting for me...... Mom, don't go, I'll go home...... Brother, good dad, let's go together......"
She held her lover's arm and slowly propped herself up, looking at the child and his father with empty eyes, the tears flowing from her eyes mixed with the rain cement slurry, leaving traces on her pale cheeks.
"Lao Zhang, you remember Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, you remember her—I went......" She said intermittently as if she were talking nonsense.
Zhang Xiaoyu's father was frightened, holding his lover's arm and trembling: "Ah Fang! Don't scare me! Let's get in the car!! Get in! Let's go home! Xiaoyu is at home, waiting for you at home! ”
She opened her tearful eyes, looked at her lover in front of her in a daze, staggered two steps, and stood at the door of the bus but stopped suddenly. She pushed it away, and rushed into the rain without looking back.
Zhang Xiaoyu and her father looked at the back in the rainstorm, and rushed forward with a roar: "Ah Fang!!! You're back—"
The slopes are steep and the rain is slippery, and the mountain roads are rugged, and he, a native of Nancheng, can't catch up with his wife who grew up in the mountains at all. Seeing the two getting farther and farther apart, I saw my beloved wife step by step into the circle of death. On weekdays, the man who is kind and angry runs to the exhaustion, completely ignoring the image...... Ran off his shoes and scratched his foot...... But the man in front of him never looked back......
"Ah Fang !!!!" The man fell into the rain and let out a lone wolf roar.