More than 11 o'clock that night, most of the villagers have evacuated as planned, but to ensure safety, the village cadres drove two cars back to the village to clean up. It was at this time that the flood rushed down the mountain with rocks larger than a basketball, and the water level in the village rose to near the calf.

　　On the afternoon of June 30, the Yi girl A Juan sat in front of her yard and watched the militiamen clear the mud on the road.

　　A Juan is from Dabaozi Village, Yihai Town, Mianning County, Sichuan Province. A few days ago, a sudden torrential rain hit Dabaozi Village. The flood engulfed a stone larger than a basketball from the mountain on the east side of the village. Many people including A Juan’s house were damaged by stones and water. Too.

　　According to the official micro-news from the Information Office of the Mianning County Government, from June 18, 2020 to 1:00 on the 27th, 2020, the northern region of Mianning County suddenly fell to heavy rains, causing townships (streets) including Yihai Town, Gaoyang Street, etc. 2100 households and more than 9880 people were affected. As of 23:00 on June 30, a total of 1,778 households and 5,660 people were resettled in the centralized resettlement sites in Yihai Town and Gaoyang Street.

　　Yihai Town, where Dabaozi Village is located, is one of the most severely affected areas. After a short period of heavy rainfall, a huge torrential flood occurred in Yihai Town, causing river diversion and flooding. As of 23:00 on June 30, 5 people had lost contact and 12 people were killed in Yihai Town.

　　After the flood, Yihai Town set up two centralized resettlement sites, set up 359 tents, distributed 1020 fold-out beds, 3410 beds of quilts, 2100 sets of adult winter clothes, and 3,000 living supplies. In addition, the staff of the disease control department kills the tents of the resettlement site three times a day, and there are medical staff on duty 24 hours at the resettlement site.

　　Heavy rain

　　Dabaozi Village is located about 14 kilometers south of Yihai Town. The village is surrounded by mountains to the north and east, 108 National Road to the west, and Da Mawu Village to the south. There is a river called Cao Gu River between the two villages.

　　This small village with more than 650 households and more than 2,800 people is all Yi villagers. The main road of the village is almost parallel to the Caogu River, and most houses are built along the main road, about 200 meters away from the north bank of the Caogu River. Between the house and the Caogu River is a large area of ​​farmland with corn, potatoes and other crops.

　　Ji Kewuniu in his 30s is a village cadre and the first person in the village to realize the danger. At more than 7pm on June 26th, he received news on WeChat that the town notified that there was a heavy rain that night, and asked the villages to strengthen the safety investigation of geological disaster sites and related parties.

　　When I received the news, the rain had already started and the village had no electricity. Jike Wuniu informed other cadres in the village by telephone, allowing everyone to observe the situation of Cao Guhe in different locations, but no one found anything abnormal.

　　Ji Kewu Niu also set off from his home and drove onto the 108 National Highway. He wanted to observe the water level of the Caogu River from a bridge on the National Highway. But the rain was too heavy and the village had a power outage, and nothing could be seen clearly. He had to park his car in the middle of the bridge, facing the upper stream of the river, and illuminate the Cao Gu River with headlights. At that time, the water level had not risen significantly, and the river bed was still bare.

　　At more than 10 o'clock that night, Ji Kewu Niu went to the river to observe again and found that the water level had risen. He called the village committee director of Damawu Village across the river. The other party had just received a call from the upstream rainfall detection point, saying that the early warning alarm had sounded.

　　After receiving the news, Ji Kewu Niu began to arrange the evacuation of the villagers in Dabaozi Village. Village cadres and team leaders of various villages took electric alarms and struck gongs, and went from house to house to notify the original government of Caogu Township (in November 2019, the original Caogu Township, the original Tuowu Township, and the original Yihai Township merged For the current Yihai Town) nearby. It is located about one kilometer northwest of the village, and the terrain is high, which can be used as a temporary resettlement site.

　　Nun Mo’s family is on the east side of Dabaozi Village. In addition to the couple, there is an 80-year-old grandma and 3 young children. At 10 o'clock that night, more than one family had not slept. After hearing the village cadres' call for evacuation, they ran out of the door before they could pack up.

　　Not far from the door of the house, the elderly and children got on the van prepared in the village, but the young people had to evacuate to the resettlement site by themselves. Jike Wuniu said that most people in the village have tricycles, and it is not difficult to evacuate to the settlement.

　　According to Ji Kewuniu, most of the villagers had evacuated as planned at 11 o'clock that night, but to ensure safety, he and the village cadres drove two vehicles back to the village to clean up. It was at this time that the flood rushed down the mountain with rocks larger than a basketball, and the water level in the village rose to near the calf.

　　"At that time I just drove my car to a three-way junction, and I saw the flood water coming, and I could only slam the steering wheel to turn around. But the bottom of the car still hit the rolling stones, and the sound was very loud." Ji Kewu Niu said.

　　Jake Wuniu remembered that the last time he encountered such heavy rain was 16 years ago. At that time, the Caogu River flooded out, and the village blocked it with something.

　　But this time the situation is much more serious. So far, two people have been killed in the flood in Dabaozi Village. "I asked the family's neighbors at the time and said that they had evacuated and no one was at home. So it is unclear how they were killed." Jike Wuniu said.

　　Crops were washed away, houses were destroyed

　　The flood that struck Dabaozi Village came from the mountain east of the village. There are three small streams on the mountain east of the village. The streams converge at the bottom of the mountain and flow into the Caogu River together.

　　According to Anga Yibo, the director of the village of Damawu Village on the south bank of the Caogu River, when it is not raining, the Caogu River is very shallow and people can go directly to it. However, after the heavy rain on the evening of June 26, the flood carried rocks down the mountain, rushed out of the original Caogu River channel, poured into the cropland beside the channel, and destroyed the roads and houses of the villagers in Dabaozi Village.

　　On the afternoon of June 30, a reporter from the Beijing News saw in Dabaozi Village that the riverbed on the north bank of the Caogu River was composed of soil and stones. The riverbed was covered with stones and sand washed down from the mountains. The crops were washed away by the flood. Only half of the corn stalks can be seen occasionally in the sand. Ji Kewuniu said that because of the river diversion, the soil in the farmland was destroyed, "these land may not be able to grow crops in the future."

　　On the south side of the Caogu River, on the side of Damau Village, the river bed is a cement embankment, about 5 meters high. In the fields outside the river bed, crops such as corn have not been affected much. Anga Yipo said that the cement embankment in Damawu Village was repaired in March 2020. The embankment was built to protect the crops behind.

　　Ji Kewuniu said that because Dabaozi Village is slightly higher than Damao Village, no cement embankment was built on the side of Dabaozi Village.

　　In Dabaozi Village, many houses were affected by floods: some houses had one or two walls missing; some houses had no roof; some houses had three walls completely destroyed, leaving only a red iron door standing beside the road There is a small brick wall less than half a meter long next to the iron gate.

　　Ajuan's house is on the east side of Dabaozi Village. The main house originally had three rooms. The outer walls were made of cement bricks. Between the houses was a partition made of wooden boards. Nowadays, the wooden beams have been broken by the flood, the roof has been lifted by half, and the back wall of the main house has disappeared. Many cement bricks washed down by water were scattered on the nearby road.

　　A Juan said that the day after the flood, she and her family returned to the yard to pack things, except for a few clothes, most of the items were gone.

　　On the afternoon of June 30, A Juan pulled up a clothesline in the muddy yard and put the dark blue robe covered with yellow mud. In the corner of the yard, pink sheets, light purple quilts and messy tree roots were piled together, and Ajuan was going to clean them.

　　Place tents to kill 3 times a day

　　According to Ji Kewuniu, on the night of the heavy rain on June 26, the villagers evacuated to the original township government of Caogu Township and spent the night in the office. On the morning of the 27th, the disaster relief personnel of Mianning County Civil Affairs Bureau, County Public Security Bureau, County Transportation Bureau, and County Disease Control Center all arrived and set up temporary tents on the cement road in front of the original Caogu Township Government.

　　According to the official micro news of the Mianning County Government Information Office, as of 17:00 on June 29, Yihai Town set up 2 centralized resettlement sites, built 359 tents, distributed 820 folding beds, 560 moisture-proof mats, and 40 high-pressure boards. There are 3120 beds of quilts, 2100 sets of adult winter clothes, and 4 pieces of colored cloth strips.

　　On June 30, a reporter from the Beijing News saw at the original temporary settlement site of the Caogu Township Government that there were more than 90 blue resettlement tents on the 200-meter-long street of the treaty. In most cases, a family lives in a tent , 3 less, 7 more. There is a green steel frame bed in the tent, and a quilt uniformly distributed by the civil affairs department.

　　There were also two round plastic stools in the tent of Nun Mo’s house, brought by relatives. Grandma said that before, relatives thought she had passed away in the flood, she cried and ran away from home in accordance with the customs of the Yi people, but found her in the temporary settlement. The relatives left the stools brought to Grandma and let her rest well.

　　According to Zhuang Tao, a staff member of the Mianning County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the temporary resettlement site, the villagers provided three meals a day by the local government. In addition to lunch, bread, mineral water and water dispensers that provide hot water.

　　In order to ensure the sanitation of the resettlement site, a detection point was also set up at the entrance. All personnel entering the resettlement site should take temperature measurements and wear masks. If someone comes from outside, check the health code. "People gather here, so we have to prevent various infectious diseases including new coronary pneumonia." Zhuang Tao said.

　　Since the installation of the tent was completed on June 27, the staff of the county's disease control center had to disinfect the inside of the tent with chlorine powder and water three times a day. Zhuang Tao said that daily drinking water is also sterilized in this way, which will basically not cause damage to the human body.

　　"The (original) Cao Gu Township Government has 4 disease control personnel at this resettlement site. In addition to disinfecting tents, public toilets and other places, it also needs to be disinfected multiple times a day," said Zhuang Tao.

　　In addition, there are medical staff on duty 24 hours in the resettlement site, and the staff will also propagate the epidemic prevention knowledge to the villagers. "For example, tell them to open the tent curtains during the day to ventilate, and then put them down at night; try not to drink raw water and eat cold salads; if you are uncomfortable, go directly to the doctor. The doctor is always there." Zhuang Tao said.

　　(A Juan is a pseudonym in the text)

　　Beijing News reporter Li Gui intern Cao Yifan