Chapter 354: The Flood (6)
In what was supposed to be a rainy summer, people in the affected areas saw a severe drought in which small rivers were cut off, ponds dried up, and grass seedlings died.
The croppers who were digging in the field looked at the sky helplessly, God didn't appreciate the food, they had nothing to do, only some old people with rich life experience, looking at the sky from time to time, and they were extremely worried.
Until one morning, they looked at the sunrise in the sky, which showed a purple color, and then dark clouds overshadowed the sun, and then a rainbow appeared.
I had a bad heart, so I hurriedly ran to the yard, and sure enough, I saw ants moving in groups, the chickens in the house were also flying to the trees, and the pigs were running around in the pigsty, refusing to be quiet no matter how they shouted.
The old people knew that the flood was coming, and hurriedly instructed their families to quickly sort out their belongings and run to the mountains with all their might.
Some of the filial farmers listened to the advice of the old man in the family, and all of them mobilized, and the men threw the chickens raised in the yard into the baskets, tied the pigs around their necks with ropes, and pulled them out.
The women hid their money stamps close to their bodies, and brought their quilts and all the food and the family's precious daily necessities, and the old people left the house with their children in their arms, but most of them scoffed at these people.
Two hours later, a dazzling lightning bolt suddenly split in the sky, and then a huge thunder exploded in mid-air, and for a while, the sky quickly darkened with thunder and lightning.
With the help of electric light, people found that the sky had turned from dim to inky black, and the clouds in the sky were tumbling violently, as if to shatter the world.
The barking of the dogs in the village became terrible, and the children were also frightened and cried loudly.
After another two hours, it began to rain in the whole area, and at the moment of rain, all the croppers ran out with joy, shouting that it was raining, and that the grain in the field would not die.
But they were happy for less than five minutes, and the rain had changed from a heavy rain to a very heavy rainstorm in an instant, and they watched the heavy rain fall like water in a basin, and there was no human figure at all a few steps away, and everyone's heart was heavy as if it had been filled with lead.
The rainwater on the eaves didn't have time to flow down, leaking from all over the roof, and everyone had all the tools they could use to hold water in the house, washbasins, buckets, and even rice bowls and tea bowls to catch the rainwater, and it didn't take long to pour water out.
But this method only lasted for an hour, and before long a large amount of water poured into the house, and the people who had cement bags, lime bags or sandbags at home were better and blocked the door to prevent the water from entering.
People who didn't have these things blocked the door with wooden slats, or even quilts and clothes, but the rain still flowed mercilessly into the house.
The bedding at home has been wet by the rain, and even the food of the people who are not fast has been wet by the rain, the flour has turned into a batter, and the firewood can no longer burn, and even if it does, it will fill the house with smoke.
The water under their feet had spread from their necks to their knees, and then quickly to their waists, until the first wave of the flood swept over, and their humble houses collapsed, and their household goods and all their possessions were swept away.
Everyone stood in the rain, looking at the rain that was still pouring down, and did not understand how this rain could bring floods, but what they didn't know was that at noon on the day of the rainstorm, many small reservoirs in the local area had been quickly filled.
Many small reservoirs can no longer withstand the surging rains, and there is a tendency to burst their levees, and the local garrison has carried out rescue operations, but unfortunately the storage capacity of flood control sandbags is seriously insufficient, resulting in some small reservoirs have burst.
The small reservoir that burst its banks caused the first wave of flooding, and the victims of the flood had nowhere to stay and wanted to go up the mountain, only to find that they could no longer walk.
With his familiarity with his land, he could only take refuge in high places, and as long as he was a little higher, he was full of people who were drenched.
It's just that the high ground is too small to accommodate so many people, and there are many people who can only stand in the water, and children climb to trees that have not yet been uprooted, and there are people on the branches.
But the branches could not bear the weight of so many people, and they broke one after another, causing many people to fall into the water, and there were more casualties in the crowd.
Less than five hours after the torrential rain, the water level of the largest reservoir also exceeded the warning level, and the reservoir has begun to burst, and it is only a matter of time before the reservoir bursts and bursts.
The garrison continued to send rescue requests, and due to the backwardness of local communications, they finally succeeded in sending two rescues to the outside world, but unfortunately they were interrupted halfway and never delivered.
Heavy rainstorms have caused a wide range of telecommunications in Henan Province to be cut off, and they have not only lost the opportunity to contact for help, but also the opportunity to contact for internal control.
Rescue orders could not be issued, so it was impossible to organize the rapid transfer of the masses, and after seeing that the largest reservoir embankment could no longer withstand the high water level, the embankment burst violently, triggering another wave of major floods.
Trees were uprooted near the reservoir, as well as some heavy tractors from nearby factories, and heavy machinery and equipment were also rolled and washed away.
Supply and marketing cooperatives, banks, hospitals and other houses in the entire street have been swept down by the relentless flood, and the houses on the street have been washed away by the flood, and the screams and cries of the residents have been suppressed by the rumbling sound of the flood.
The local garrison and commune cadres organized forces to fight the flood and rescue the people in a panic, but the bad news came one by one, either the bridge deck and the road surface were washed away by the rain, or many people were swept into the flood and could not be rescued at all.
The surviving residents are waiting for ZF's rescue, but what they don't know is that the town's reservoir management bureau is also unable to save itself, and the water in the courtyard has accumulated more than one meter, most of the houses have collapsed, and the equipment has been swept away by the floodwater.
In desperation, the correspondent risked being struck by lightning, moved the walkie-talkie antenna to the roof, and finally got in touch with the relevant departments at higher levels to report the flood danger.
When they learned that the people downstream had not been affected by the disaster, they said that they should let the people downstream evacuate urgently as soon as possible, and in the critical situation that they could not communicate with the outside world, the garrison could fire red signal flares downstream many times.
However, people who have not undergone special training do not know what is happening when they understand the role of flares.
After only an hour, the flood water rushed out of the breach of the reservoir like a wild horse and rushed downstream, and the flood water rushed thousands of miles from the reservoir to the 50-kilometer long Ru River of the railway.
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