Chapter Ninety-Seven: Speechless

Then, at the end of the street of the wholesale market, at the deepest part of the flood, a man and a woman trapped by the flood water were shouting for help from the window on the first floor of a one-story house. Because the flood came so fast, they couldn't seem to open the door after being trapped in the house. The windows are equipped with anti-theft nets, and now they dare not open them casually, because the water is almost higher than the windows.

Zhang Lan's mind moved, and the rusted screws on one side of the anti-theft net were quietly carried away by the water. Immediately afterwards, Flood hung an adult-thigh-thick thigh-thick branch on the security net, shattering the glass and bringing the security net off the window frame.

The flood water poured into the house in an instant, and the thigh-deep water inside the house began to rise rapidly. A twig with branches and leaves was stuck in the window by the current, and the influx of water was much slower.

The man in the room looked at the situation in front of him for a moment, then came back to his senses and opened the window through the water. Then the man dragged a floating wooden table, and let the woman next to him lie on the table. Then he found a rope from the house and tied the table, and began to wait for the water to pour in.

By the time the flood water overflowed the window, the branches of the trees had already drifted away along the floodwater. The man pinched his nose in one hand and grabbed the rope in the other hand and began to dive along the window.

After swimming out of the window, the man grabbed the rope and began to swim up the wall, then climbed onto the roof by holding on to the shop's sign. Tethered to the signboard shelf, the man dived again, and after a while pulled the woman up to the roof.

Observing the two of them climbing onto the roof, Zhang Lan's heart moved, and the water flow around the front of the house quietly dispersed, and the flood began to continue to flow.

After observation, Zhang Lan found that the residents trapped in the flood had reached a safe location, and all that was left was to wait for rescue. Then we began to explore the south where the flood was coming.

As Zhang Lan investigated, he found that the south side of the village was full of flowing floodwaters, and the water of the moat had overflowed the embankment on the west side and was flowing everywhere unscrupulously.

And on the embankment on the east side of the moat, countless people are constantly raising the embankment. But the flood has begun to overflow part of the riverbank's embankment and spread into the city.

Zhang Lan was wrapped around the current of water, and continued to check along the current of the moat. Until he reached a corner in the north of Xiangshi, looking at the three huge gaps in the north of the river reflected in his mind, Zhang Lan was silent for a long time.

Looking at the countless crowds of people standing on the embankment on the south side of the river, Zhang Lan let out a long sigh and turned to leave.

On the way back, Zhang Lan thought about the news he had seen on his mobile phone before, and all the reservoirs in the north under the jurisdiction of the entire Xiang City had already been overwhelmed. After several days of torrential rain, even the barrage in the west ditch of Qingshan Village was washed away by the floodwater, which was only a small ditch, and I had never seen such a large amount of water flowing through that ditch since I was a child.

Most of the final flow of all the floods is concentrated in the Xinghe River north of Xiangshi and the west of Canghe City, and an artificial canal was dug along the Xinghe River in order to prevent floods, which is parallel to the current Xinghe River.

However, this year's rain was too much, and the reservoirs in the upstream could only passively start to discharge floods after a few days of heavy rain, which brought huge pressure to the downstream cities of Xiangshi and Canghe.

On the North Ring Road in Xianghe City, Zhang Lan just looked at an ocean, and now the entire Xiangshi to Canghe is an ocean.

Returning to the Canghe River, Zhang Lan did not take the river again, but began to check the situation along the water flow along the breach. Now the entire west of Canghe City is covered with a large flood and then spreads towards Canghe City. Zhang Lan's speed became faster and faster, and finally he couldn't help but silently recite 'riding the wind and waves' and 'water escape', and began to move rapidly along the flood until he stopped at the confluence of the two Xinghe rivers in the lower reaches of Canghe City.

Then Zhang Lan began to turn around and rush to Canghe City, and Zhang Lan had a general idea in his heart after this trip. The most dangerous thing now is Canghe City, and the incident in Shanglin Village is just a rehearsal.

Quietly came to the moat on the west side of Canghe City, and watched the crowd coming and going quickly piling generations of sandbags on the embankment, Zhang Lan sighed. The current situation is that he is also a little powerless, and the current situation is fine, according to the speed of the current, the most dangerous thing is tomorrow during the day.

I took out my phone and looked at it, but it was still calm and lifeless. After a few days of heavy rain, most areas of Canghe City have some poor communication, and the mobile phone signal is barely able to make calls, and the network has been interrupted. But fortunately, most of the broadband networks are still available.

Turning around and coming to Shanglin Village, Zhang Lan found a place where no one was around, lifted the manifestation, walked along the highway to the car, put on rescue equipment, and walked to Shanglin Village after bringing his things. Captain Cai Yong: They have been rescued several times in a kayak, and now go over and replace them to let them rest for a while.

By about 3 a.m., most of the residents had been evacuated. Some of the rescue troops rowed kayaks back and forth in the village to check out, and the rest of the personnel temporarily found a place to rest, and will continue the rescue tomorrow during the day.

It was already four o'clock in the morning when Zhang Lan got home, and after a simple wash, she lay down on the bed to rest.

Zhang Lan woke up at six o'clock in the morning, and got up from the bed as soon as he saw the time. When I was washing, I looked at myself in the mirror, and I came to a 'Pudu sentient being', and my spirit suddenly improved a lot.

During the meal, Zhang Lan said to her mother: "Mom, you will call my aunt and aunt later, and ask them to pay attention today, if it doesn't work, leave quickly, don't wait in the city." ”

Zhang Lan's mother was holding her mobile phone and watching the news near the short video platform, and after hearing Zhang Lan's words, she said: "Now the sky is clear, and there is no rain in the forecast for the next few days, it will be sunny." It's okay in the city, didn't the city leaders say that the water level will slowly drop today. ”

"Who said the water level in the city would go down?" Zhang Lan was a little surprised, as far as he saw yesterday, the water level in the city was good if it didn't rise, how could it still fall.

"You look at the short video platform, and now the news is all over the place." Zhang Lan's mother pointed to the video on her phone for Zhang Lan to see.

Zhang Lan took out her mobile phone, opened the short video platform and began to check, and sure enough, the leaders of Canghe City were standing in a flood in the center of the city with a smile on their faces, enthusiastically saying that the water level would drop significantly by the afternoon. Things will get better and better in the coming days due to the weather.

Looking at the video, Zhang Lan was speechless for a long time, if it wasn't for the fact that he had checked the whole from the breach to the downstream river intersection last night, he would have been convinced of the speech of the city leader.

The sky is already clear, and it will not rain for a while in the future, so the water in the city should gradually decrease in the eyes of everyone.

And now the river embankment in the west of the city has been flooded, but it has gradually been blocked with sandbags.

(End of chapter)