Chapter 29: The Wind Stops
These days, the winds are noticeably lighter.
Lin Wanqiao guessed that in a few days, the typhoon should stop.
The downstairs residents also found that there were more people going out to chat these days, with a hopeful smile on their faces, although they still couldn't eat, but with hope, their spirits were back.
June 7, 2023, around 7 a.m.
What woke Lin Wanqiao was no longer the howling wind, but the cheers of the survivors.
The rain is still falling.
Lin Wanqiao took three steps and two steps, walked to the window and opened the curtains.
I saw that the raindrops were no longer as messy as yesterday, and they were falling straight down. The blown off wires on the roof of the small building diagonally opposite have also stopped swaying and are hanging on the exterior wall.
The red, green, and green garbage in the water slowly floated from a distance, and when it got closer, it didn't know where it was going.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the building.
"Heyββ! Over here! Over here! β
In front of the windows of the opposite building, several owners were leaning out half-leaning, waving their hands into the distance and shouting loudly.
As far as I could see, several black shadows were rapidly approaching this direction, making splashes of water wherever they passed.
It turned out to be an assault boat for government rescue!
As soon as the typhoon stopped, the government immediately organized post-disaster relief.
Assault boats in the distance were getting closer.
When I got closer, I saw the person above wearing a raincoat and holding a big horn in his hand.
The sound of the horn came clearly: "Citizens, the flood is turbulent, please wait patiently at home for rescue, and do not go out without authorization, so as not to cause unnecessary losses!" Ladies and gentlemen, the flood is ......"
"Help! My child is already hungry, come and help us! β
"Here it is! Over here! Why don't you get close?! What the hell are you doing?!!! β
"My dad fell and has been unconscious for several days, so someone rushed to take him to the hospital!"
The assault boat only circled around the neighborhood for a few times before heading down to a residential building, leaving only a splash.
Seeing that they could not wait for rescue for the time being, some people began to find ways to save themselves.
Everyone showed their magical powers, and for a while, the water surface was extremely lively.
Someone took out the washbasin at home, put a large tire on the outside of the washbasin, and simply tied it up, just enough to sit down a person.
There are also those who used to be water fitness enthusiasts, and at this time they also took out the inflatable paddle board at the bottom of the pressure box.
City C is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and after a while, there were several people downstairs rowing out on a bamboo raft.
What made Lin Wanqiao cry and laugh was that she actually saw the little yellow duck pedal boat on the lake in Chengbei Park before! And bring a canopy!
A month ago, these cruise ships that cost 300 a time were not cared for, and now I am afraid that some people are rushing to ask for 3000 a time.
For a time, all kinds of self-made tire boats, rubber boats, bamboo rafts, and small wooden boats in the water were all in battle, just like the scene of Venice on the water.
Heavy rains continue and water levels are still rising, and most of the most urgent problems to be solved are still food shortages.
Some of the people who went out went directly to the supermarket, and some stopped nearby to salvage supplies floating on the water.
I don't know which farmer's duck was killed and ran out, and at this time it was swimming leisurely on the surface of the water in groups of three or five. As far as the eye could see, there were twenty or thirty of them, which caused everyone to rush for a while.
Liu Jian'an saw that there were ducks on the water, and even watermelons floating, and everyone was happy, and they were a little itchy for a while, so they proposed to Lin Wanqiao.
"Grandpa, you see how can a duck be flexible in the water. They caught it for a long time, but they only caught duck feathers all over the sky, and they didn't say anything about it, in case they accidentally fell into the water.
The water is full of garbage, feces, and dead rats and cockroaches, and the bacteria must be exceeded. β
Hearing that his granddaughter was reasonable, Liu Jian'an also rested, so he took a small horse, sat by the window with tea, and happily watched the people downstairs fluttering and catching ducks.
The government was very fast, and as soon as Lin Wanqiao finished lunch, rescuers were already moving the affected people from house to house.
All the residents on the lower floors who have been affected by the disaster have been picked up and placed in the middle school in the south of the city. Whether to go to relatives or continue to stay at the disaster relief site is at will.
For those who were not affected, rice, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, clean drinking water, and candles were distributed to each household according to their number of people.
Lin Wanqiao's building, which has lived in the corridor for more than half a month, has three families on the second and third floors, and immediately packed up her luggage and followed the rescue boat without hesitation.
The residents on the fourth floor were still a little hesitant to leave, but now the water has not submerged, but if the rain continues like this, it will be flooded sooner or later.
"Have you decided, our rescue work is intense, we can't waste time here, maybe we'll go first."
The fourth floor is ruthless, go! Going to the disaster relief site early can also get a good spot.
Only the 301 family who lived in the 501 little girl's house refused to leave, and there were no beds and no toilets at the disaster relief site, where could they live comfortably.
The little girls of 301 cried urgently, they kindly took them in, ate their own and used their own, and now they are still relying on it, how can there be such a scoundrel in the world!
But the rescuers only rescued, regardless of this, and after making sure that no one in the building wanted to be transferred, they left a week's worth of supplies and left.
Unexpectedly, the little couple on the 7th floor also had to leave. At the beginning, the young man who ran out of food at the beginning of the typhoon and ventured out hit his head and survived after being in a coma for a long time, but he couldn't get out of bed, and this time he was sent to the hospital with the help of rescue.
I don't know how the two survived for such a long time.
Supplies were replenished, and in the evening, the smell of long-lost food came from the cracks in the doors of every house in the community.
If you ignore the flooding below, the city seems to be back to the fireworks of a month ago.
In order to celebrate the end of the typhoon, have a luxury, eat hot pot + barbecue tonight!
The food was fragrant everywhere in the community, and Lin Wanqiao's family no longer had to hide it and let it go.
The supplies issued by the government were very abundant, including a knife of fresh pork belly, as well as chrysanthemum, lettuce, and white radish.
Lin Wanqiao took out fish, fat cow, fat sheep and all kinds of meatballs from the space, and went to the balcony to pull out a spinach.
Turn on the generator.
Under the light, the induction cooker was placed on the dining table, and the red and white soup in a mandarin duck pot was bubbling. There was another barbecue tray next to it, and the pork belly in the grill was bubbling with oil.
Lin Wanqiao dipped a piece of pork belly slices in the chili powder in front of her, and then sandwiched the spicy cabbage that Yang Yujun had pickled before, wrapped it in lettuce, and couldn't wait to send it to her mouth.
Fragrant!
Shen Shaoyu shouted to be careful of scalding her mouth, and at the same time put her favorite shrimp slip into the mushroom pot.
The 1602 room was filled with aroma for a while, and laughter was heard from time to time.
A family in the same community.
A male owner who was immersed in munching on white rice and stir-fried meat with lettuce suddenly raised his head, suddenly sniffed at the surroundings, and said, "Damn, who's barbecuing, it's really delicious!" β
His son also smelled it: "Dad, I smell the spicy hot pot!" I'm going to eat hot pot too! β
The man gave his son a brain breakdown.
"Think of fart, eat yours!"