China News Agency, Changsha, June 5 (Reporter Deng Xia) Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival this year, Hunan was hit by heavy rainfall.
Affected by the rainfall, on the morning of June 5, many toll stations of Hunan Expressway were controlled by traffic.
The monitoring data of the Hunan Meteorological Bureau shows that from 8:00 on June 1 to 8:00 on the 4th, the rainfall at 119 stations in 18 counties and urban areas in Hunan exceeded 200 mm, and the rainfall at 21 stations in 7 counties and urban areas exceeded 300 mm. The accumulated rainfall was the largest in western Hunan. Liaojiaqiao Town, Fenghuang County, 370.3 mm; the maximum daily rainfall is 312.5 mm in Taojiang Sandang Street (8:00 on the 2nd to 8:00 on the 3rd), which is the extreme rainfall this year.
From 8:00 on June 4 to 8:00 on the 5th, the cumulative rainfall at 302 stations in 52 counties and urban areas in Hunan exceeded 50 mm, and the cumulative rainfall at 31 stations in 17 counties and urban areas exceeded 100 mm.
From 8:00 on June 1 to 8:00 on the 2nd, there was a general rainstorm in Mayang, Huaihua, and the highest rainfall in some towns reached 263.5 mm, which was the heaviest rainfall since Mayang had meteorological records.
Preliminary statistics show that the rain caused two local deaths and four lost contact.
From the early morning of the 2nd to the noon of the 3rd, the maximum precipitation in Fenghuang County in western Hunan reached 320 mm. The water of the Tuojiang River in the Fenghuang Ancient City, a well-known tourist attraction, soared, and the pedestrian paths and some storefronts on both sides of the river bank were flooded.
The local fire brigade went door-to-door along the flooded houses in search of those trapped.
On the morning of the 3rd, a landslide occurred in Yiwangxi Village, Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde, causing a house to collapse and three people in the house to lose contact.
In response to the severe rainstorms and floods in Yiyang, Xiangxi, Huaihua and other places, the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management launched a national level IV disaster relief emergency response on the 4th, and sent a working group to the disaster area to check the disaster situation on the spot, and guide and assist the local area to do a good job of life assistance for the affected people, etc. Disaster relief work.
Liu Hongwu, chief forecaster of the Hunan Meteorological Observatory, analyzed that it is still rainy in Hunan today and tomorrow, and it is necessary to strengthen the prevention of extreme heavy rainfall, mountain torrents induced by heavy rains, geological disasters, small and medium river floods and urban waterlogging and other secondary disasters; be vigilant and pay attention to preventing early rainfall Larger regional lagging geological disasters.
At present, Hunan natural resources, water conservancy, meteorology and other departments have jointly issued geological disasters, mountain torrent disaster meteorological risk warnings and rainstorm orange warnings.
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