Chapter Ninety-Nine: Clearing to 50,000
After Zhang Lan sent her aunt Li Xiulan and them to her door, she took down the bag from the car, and then hurriedly returned to the city to rescue.
The water in the city did not begin to decline gradually, as everyone expected, but became deeper and deeper. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Lan, who was rescuing, learned that the water at the bridgehead, the only access to the city in the west, was getting deeper and deeper. Then catch a ride on the side of the road and continue to the city.
By the morning of the next day, the water on the city's main road had reached waist, and the city leaders realized the seriousness of the situation and finally issued a notice to evacuate all residents in the city at noon.
At this time, the city was already full of spontaneous civilian rescue teams and rescuers from the surrounding villages that were less affected. By the afternoon, some of the city's main roads were no longer visible from the railings in the middle of the road. Under such circumstances, all hospitals in Canghe City were forced to evacuate.
All the love rescue teams were organized and concentrated in the First Affiliated Hospital, which is the only tertiary hospital in Canghe City, which has many patients and more serious patients, and it is even more difficult to transfer.
Zhang Lan arrived at the scene and looked at the rescue crowd and the helpless eyes of the patient's family. There are also some people lying in hospital beds, and some patients are on the transfer vehicle as soon as they get out of the medical machine, and how to stick to other hospitals is also a big problem.
Zhang Lan waded into the hospital, and the water had already entered the hall on the first floor, although the hospital was on higher ground, but now there was about five centimeters of water in the hospital.
Zhang Lan followed the stairs to the top floor of the outpatient building and climbed onto the roof while no one was paying attention. All patient numbers are to be transferred through the door downstairs of the outpatient clinic.
A ray of light shrouded Zhang Lan, 'Nine Heavens of Agility', 'Heavenly God Protector', and 'Lotus Blossom Wonderful Method', looking at the merits on the transparent panel in front of him, and then at the patients who were being transferred downstairs. Zhang Lan's mind moved, and countless tiny transparent streams of water began to swim along the current, and when she encountered a transport patient who was guarded by doctors and nurses, she stopped and quietly attached herself to an inconspicuous place.
As the critically ill patients in the entire hospital were reflected in Zhang Lan's mind, he took a long breath and silently recited a sentence of Nanwu Guanyin Bodhisattva! Then the merit on the transparent panel in front of Zhang Lan's eyes began to decline rapidly, 'Mu Ri Compassion', a huge golden brilliance appeared in front of Zhang Lan's eyes in mid-air, and then a lotus flower that could not be seen by ordinary people shrouded the patients who had been marked by the transparent water flow one by one.
After doing all this, the merit on Zhang Lan's panel dropped directly to zero, and the whole person recovered from the image of Wu Tianji. Then he quietly went downstairs and transported the patient with someone.
In the evening, because the water in the city was still rising, no one was allowed to enter the rescue except for the soldiers and regular trained rescue forces.
Now all the rescue forces and supplies have been piled up on the roadside along the national highway east of Canghe City, and from the highway, there are rescue vehicles and materials for several kilometers.
Because the flood came from the southwest, the northwest was mountainous, and the southeast was relatively high, and the water in the city could only flow out to the northwest through two moats.
But now the water in the moat is higher than the water in the city, and the two lower reaches of the river have formed a confluence, and the pumping station at the intersection cannot handle such a large flow of floodwater, so we can only watch the water in the city get higher and higher.
There are more than 100,000 permanent residents in the entire Canghe urban area, and after the order to evacuate all of them was suddenly issued, many residents were still trapped inside.
During the daytime the next day, the command made a decision to build a five-kilometer-long water barrier with sandbags on a road at the southwest end of the city that connects the national highway to the moat bridge in the west, so that the flowing water coming from the southwest would return it to the two moats. At the same time, all the pumping facilities that can be mobilized will be mobilized to start pumping the stagnant water in the urban area.
There was no rain in Canghe City for several days, and the pressure of the flood peak caused by the upstream flood discharge was gradually absorbed, and after the construction of the five-kilometer dam, the water in the city finally stopped rising.
But now most of the city's main roads are waterlogged assault boats that can be driven casually, and basically jump down to at least chest-deep water.
As the water stopped rising, all the rescuers breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, under the non-stop rescue day and night, those who want to evacuate and those who need to be evacuated are almost rescued.
As the water level of the moat began to slowly decrease, the main problem now was the accumulation of water in the city.
After a few days of rescue, Zhang Lan's exhausted merit gradually rose back, looking at the merit number of 58625/100000 on the transparent panel in front of him, Zhang Lan sighed. In just a few days, more than 50,000 merits were obtained. During the rescue, many residents went to the streets to seek rescue on their own, but fortunately, the weather is hot now, and it doesn't matter if you soak in the flood for a while, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
As the stagnant water stopped rising, there was a noticeable drop after a day and a night. As rescuers from all sides left, Zhang Lan also drove back home.
After returning home, Zhang Lan took a hot bath as soon as possible, although she could clean herself up with spells, but she always felt a little different when she didn't use hot water to take a bath.
Zhang Lan's mother curiously asked Zhang Lan about the rescue, and Zhang Lan casually told about it while eating. Basically, after the power supply and communication were partially restored, there were countless related videos on the short video platform.
After Zhang Lan had eaten and said something briefly, he lay on the bed and fell asleep, and after sleeping for more than ten hours, the whole person's spirit recovered.
Originally, Zhang Lan wanted to continue to participate in the rescue, but the main thing in Canghe City is now to remove the stagnant water, and the residents who need rescue have been transferred.
Looking at the group, most of the team members were scattered in various towns and villages for rescue. The urban area is almost now, and the surrounding flood-infested towns and villages in the downstream flood storage and detention areas are still a sea of water, and they can only wait for the flood to subside through time.
The flood in the township is not deep, but it is generally around the thigh, and the deepest is more than two meters deep. The main thing is the lack of supplies, and nothing else is needed.
Now on both sides of the national highway at the eastern highway intersection of Canghe City, relief materials have been piled up. After waiting for traffic to resume, various supplies can be delivered to the trapped people.
The leaders of Canghe City are organizing cadres from various townships and towns to count the transportation forces of each village, and then organize personnel to carry and distribute materials.
The cadres of Qingshan Village organized two large trucks to go to the city to pull two truckloads full of relief supplies. After that, each household was divided into households and all the urban residents who were taken in.
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