Chapter 791: Calamity
readx;??? Yesterday, all the cadres of Wengyuan and Xinfeng counties in Shaoguan, which had just been hit by a heavy rainstorm, canceled their vacations and went into the fields of the disaster area separately to organize the masses to set off an upsurge of disaster relief and resumption of production. The picture on the left of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info shows people rescuing orchid seedlings that have been soaked in floods.
This reporter learned from the Provincial General Defense Department that the Beijiang River, which once exceeded the warning water level of 5.22 meters, began to retreat below the warning line at 9 o'clock yesterday, and a new round of heavy rainfall will "appear in turns", and the rainfall in the process may exceed 300 millimeters, and the flood prevention situation is not optimistic.
According to the forecast of the meteorological and hydrological departments, under the influence of the shear line and the westerly trough, from today to tomorrow, our province will usher in a new round of heavy rain to heavy rain precipitation process, accompanied by strong convective weather such as thunderstorms and strong winds above level 8, and the process rainfall at some stations may exceed 300 mm. Some small and medium-sized rivers in the middle and upper reaches of the Beijiang and Dongjiang rivers and the upper reaches of the Hanjiang and Moyang rivers may experience large floods, and the main stream also has an obvious flooding process.
Experts reminded that due to the high water level of the main and tributaries of the Beijiang and Dongjiang rivers, the superposition of subsequent heavy rainfall may cause large floods, and the prevention of floods in small and medium-sized rivers should be done. At the same time, due to the heavy rainstorm process experienced in some parts of our province some time ago, the soil water content tends to be saturated, and special attention should be paid to the secondary disasters that may be brought about by short-term heavy rainfall.
The Provincial General Defense Department pointed out that because the previous round of floods caused serious damage to water conservancy facilities in some areas, and there is still no time to repair them, and a new round of heavy rainfall is coming, further increasing the pressure on flood control.
Yesterday, all the cadres of Wengyuan and Xinfeng counties in Shaoguan, which had just been hit by a heavy rainstorm, canceled their vacations and went into the fields of the disaster area separately to organize the masses to set off an upsurge of disaster relief and resumption of production. The photo on the left shows people rescuing orchid seedlings that have been soaked in floodwaters. Photo by reporter Bu Yu and correspondent Huang Weiwei
This reporter learned yesterday from the Shaoguan Civil Affairs Bureau that after the serious disaster occurred, the civil affairs departments at all levels in Shaoguan City promptly organized and dispatched a large number of disaster relief materials and distributed them to the people affected by the disaster.
For the disaster-stricken people whose homes have collapsed or become dangerous, who have no relatives or friends to turn to, and who need to be resettled by the government, the civil affairs departments in various localities are organizing personnel to set up work sheds and tents as soon as possible, and to build temporary kitchens, toilets, and garbage points, so as to solve the problem of water and electricity in the resettlement sites. Yesterday, the temperature in some areas of Shaoguan soared to 35C, and disaster relief workers from all over the country will also equip temporary shelters with fans and distribute mosquito repellent and other items according to the hot weather.
According to preliminary statistics, about 40,000 people in Shaoguan City are currently in need of emergency relief. According to the standard of 20 yuan per capita per day for clothing, food, housing and drink, temporary relief for 10 days requires about 8 million yuan. In addition, after the disaster, all households were rebuilt and their homes were relieved, and there was a large gap in disaster relief funds in Shaoguan City.
According to the latest statistics of the Qingyuan City Government, from 15 to 17 May, most areas of Qingyuan suffered from torrential rains and floods, resulting in 16 deaths.
The heavy rain caused damage to many power facilities in Fogang County, including flooding of power distribution rooms, inverted poles, and broken lines. The Fogang Power Supply Bureau sent a construction team of 275 people and invested 32 vehicles for emergency repair. As of 15:30 on the 17th, power supply has been restored to 11,500 households.
After the flood occurred, the leaders of the county's four sets of teams rushed to various localities overnight to guide the disaster response, and the vast number of cadres, armed police, firefighters, and emergency detachments arrived in the hard-hit areas as soon as possible to organize and carry out flood fighting, rescue, and disaster relief work, and to evacuate the people affected by the disaster. The county highway transportation department fought in the rain overnight to repair the collapsed road section and rescue 4 buried people.
Overnight, the civil affairs department collected relief materials such as food, drinking water, and tents, and quickly transferred them to the disaster areas in various towns, so that the people affected by the disaster were basically guaranteed. The health and epidemic prevention department organized three health and epidemic prevention teams to go deep into the 21 villages and neighborhood committees that were seriously affected by the disaster to carry out epidemic prevention and disinfection work to ensure that infectious diseases did not occur.
This reporter learned from Lianshan County yesterday that the six people trapped by flash floods and landslides have been searched by the local public security and fire departments for 15 consecutive hours in the rain and carried them down the mountain on temporary stretchers made of tree branches and cloth.
It is reported that from 8 p.m. on May 15 to 8 a.m. on the 16th, heavy rain fell in Lianshanpu and local heavy rain and high-intensity rainfall, causing flash floods and flood disasters. The flash flood has so far killed six people in Lianshan.
The extremely heavy rain has caused flooding in five counties and one district of Heyuan City, of which 13 towns in Lianping County have been flooded to varying degrees, and houses, farmland, river embankments, and transportation facilities in some places have been damaged by floods.
In the nectarine base of Shuibeiwu in Huangmeixie Natural Village, Guanling Village, Pitou Town, Xie Zhen, a villager and fruit farmer in the village, faced the ripe nectarines on the market, showing a sad face. He told reporters that because the village road was washed away by floods in many places, tens of thousands of catties of mature nectarines in the nectarine base of Guanling Village could not be transported and sold by vehicles due to road traffic interruptions, and many nectarines were rotten in the base and discarded. Xie said local growers are looking for ways to minimize economic losses.
After the Ruyuan section of National Highway 323 in Shaoguan was washed away by a flash flood on the 16th, about 200 cubic meters of boulders and mud collapsed from the mountain in the Laling section, completely blocking the traffic of National Highway 323. Yesterday afternoon, after emergency repairs by the Ruyuan Highway Department, the road was temporarily opened to traffic, but the potential safety hazards have not been ruled out.
At 8:40 a.m. yesterday, the reporter saw at the scene that the road hovering on the slope of the mountain was cut off by the mud that slid down from above, and the cyan rocks that were originally hidden under the soil also rolled down to the road with the collapse of the mountain.
It wasn't until about 1 p.m. yesterday that the road was barely clear. A person in charge of the Ruyuan County Highway Bureau revealed that the potential safety hazards of the road section have not been completely eliminated, "After the heavy rain, the mountain has been loosened in some places in this section, but it has not collapsed, and there is a great hidden danger." After investigation, we are ready to blast the loose mountain. ”