China News Service Liuzhou July 11 Question: Floods invaded Guangxi county streets and become "rivers" Multi-sectoral rescue efforts
Author Lin Xin
Affected by the heavy rain overnight, the water level of the Rongjiang River, which is located on the upper reaches of the Pearl River, rose rapidly on the 11th. Many old towns in Rongshui County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi were "bubble", and the streets became "rivers". According to the monitoring of the Rongshui Hydrological Center Station, a water level of 111.87 meters peak at Rongjiang Rongshui Hydrological Station appeared at 16:50 that day, which exceeded the warning water level by 5.27 meters.
On the afternoon of the same day, the reporter saw in Rongshui County that many low-lying areas were flooded. The entrance of Shouxing Middle Road Street in Rongshui Town was like a pier, where wooden boats, rubber boats, rescue boats and other boats stayed. Endless stream.
Water invades the meltwater. Lin Xinshe
The reporter followed a boat to visit, and the shops and houses on both sides of the street and the first floor of the street were flooded, and some vehicles parked on the roadside were not covered. The tweeter on the county street has been circulating real-time water information, reminding the public to pay attention to prevention.
The floods hit, the roads were flooded, and all kinds of ships became "hot goods." Someone took the opportunity to start a "didi boat" business, carrying people to travel, each person charges 10 to 50 yuan. After seeing the swell, Fan Fang, a 60-year-old fisherman, took out the wooden boat at home and started the "Didi Boating" business with his nephew, charging 10 yuan per person. "It has been pulled a dozen or twenty times since the morning till now, and I have to be busy until a little bit more to have lunch." Fan Fang said.
The militia rescue team drove the assault boat to participate in the rescue. Lin Xinshe
At the same time, some people are also obliged to join the flood relief. Long Zhenhai, a 21-year-old member of the Peijiang Dragon Boat Team, deliberately and his team members brought three ships to support that day. "Some people make a few hundred dollars in a trip, but we are obliged to help. Everyone is a meltwater person. If you have any difficulties, you can help." Long Zhenhai said. On that day, Long Zhenhai supported the boat for more than 2 hours and took the people nearly ten times back and forth.
Located in Rongshui County in the northern mountainous area of Guangxi, due to topographical reasons, it has been hit by floods many times over the years. Local officials have formulated various emergency plans for flood disasters, and residents are already familiar with how to deal with floods. Long Zhenhai, who grew up in Rongshui from an early age, said that parents have taken me to watch the rising water since childhood, and the people in Rongshui have been surprised by the rising water and are very calm.
In this flood, Rongshui County began organizing various village communities, township units, and flood control and drought relief member units on the evening of the 10th to use WeChat and telephone to update the town's water status changes every hour. According to Yang Shanhua, deputy director of the Emergency Management Bureau of Rongshui County, door-to-door mobilization of merchants in low-lying areas last night. At about 7 o'clock this morning, the Emergency Management Bureau dispatched two ships to rescue and transported and transferred people dozens of times.
Rescue teams such as firefighters and militiamen took charge of the rescue boat in a charge boat. Lin Xinshe
Locally, public security fire control, armed police officers and soldiers and other departments also organized the evacuation in time to ensure the safety of life and property of the people in the low-lying areas. At about 7 o'clock, the Liuzhou City Fire and Rescue Detachment received an alarm that many people were trapped in a hotel in Rongshui County, and fire rescue personnel immediately rushed to the scene to rescue. Due to the limited carrying capacity of ships, firefighters can only transfer the trapped people in batches. After nearly three hours of rescue, around 10 o'clock, the firefighters successfully evacuated 21 people to a safe area.
At about 17:00 on the same day, Rongshui officially released a message saying that the peak of the Rongjiang Rongshui Hydrological Station had passed, and the water level began to decline slowly, which was a flood in 5-10 years.
Liuzhou, a national key flood control city, according to Liuzhou Hydrological Center forecast, Liujiang Liuzhou Hydrological Station will have a flood peak level of 83.0 meters (warning level 82.5 meters) around 03:00 on July 12.