China News Service, Zhengzhou, July 22 (Kan Li) "Post-90s" Zhang Lei is an educator in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.
On July 20th, he took Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 home as usual, but he did not expect that the journey would be extremely difficult due to a heavy rain.
On that day, continuous heavy rainfall caused water accumulation in Zhengzhou subway.
At around 18 o'clock, stagnant water broke down the retaining wall of the entry line and entered the main line section, causing Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 trains to be suspended at the tunnels of Bin Sijie Station and Shakou Road Station, and 12 people were killed after the rescue failed.
Zhang Lei was the passenger of the suspended train. Talking about his surviving experience, this northern man, who is 187 centimeters tall and weighs more than 200 kilograms, still has lingering fears.
From anxiety, fear to hope, warm heart, and "breakthrough" with joint efforts, Zhang Lei, who is cheerful, is more fortunate that he has made a "year-old friendship".
Trapped in a subway car, Zhang Lei chatted with an elderly passenger who was over 60 years old and a young passenger who was just over 20. After the trio formed a team to successfully "break through", they left contact information for each other. get together.
On the afternoon of the 21st, Zhang Lei said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that he was familiar with the way home from the Zhengzhou People’s Hospital subway station, but on the day he got off work on the 20th, he walked very hard. “Before entering the station, I also posted about A circle of friends with water on the road."
What he didn't expect was that the subway ride, which was originally more than ten stops to get home, was forced to suspend service as soon as the first stop of the beach temple street station.
Because of the continuous rain in Zhengzhou causing water accumulation on the roads, Zhang Lei's company arranged for employees to leave work early that day.
Not long after getting on the subway, he and the passengers in the same car discovered that water had seeped into the car, and the train stopped immediately. "The train drove towards Shakou Road Station, against the current of the water. The car stopped and drove back for a few seconds. The clock stopped again."
Zhang Lei told reporters that after the train was out of service, they briefly got off the track next to the carriage and then returned to the carriage.
He said, “Perhaps everyone could walk out along the trail without returning to the carriage, because the trail is higher than the bottom of the train and has not been submerged by water.”
After returning to the car, Zhang Lei and the dozen or so male passengers in the same car found that the situation was not optimistic, so they slowly walked onto the walkway outside the car with the chest water, and went retrograde towards the safe area.
At this time, the "big guy" he took the lead, guarding the old and the young in the squad, and the three of them worked together and finally walked to a safe area with difficulty.
On the morning of the 21st, Zhang Lei and other passengers were safely sent home by the staff. After returning home, he "had a full sleep".
"After the storm has passed, I will have an appointment with them. After all, we have shared weal and woe." Zhang Lei told reporters.
Different from the self-rescue story of Zhang Lei and others, Zhang Bingyang of the Jinshui District Court of Zhengzhou City was a "retrograde" in Metro Line 5 at that time, opening the "passage of life" for passengers.
Also that night, Zhang Bingyang, who was waiting for the subway on Line 5, stepped up and shuttled in the flooded car when the mobile phone communication was interrupted, and organized rescue and search and rescue passengers with other volunteers until the early hours of the morning.
In the meantime, he and volunteers broke windows to rescue a large number of trapped passengers in a carriage with a higher water level.
The strong rain that swept across the Central Plains is being "repelled" by the warmth of Bafang.
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