Posted on 10/11/2021 6:55:35 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
ore than 120,000 people have been evacuated, coal mines shut and crops destroyed after unseasonably heavy rainfall flooded north China’s Shanxi province over the weekend, state media reported Monday, with more rain forecast.
The deluge comes just months after record floods hit the country’s central Henan province in July — killing more than 300 people — and raises fears about ensuring the supply of energy ahead of the winter.
Many parts of Shanxi, a landlocked province that generally has dry weather, saw record-breaking rainfall over the past week, according to the provincial government, which ordered coal mines to take flood-proofing measures and make emergency plans to be “activated immediately in case of grave danger”.
At least 60 coal mines in the province — one of China’s top coal-producing regions — have suspended operations due to the floods, according to a local government statement, even as the country faces a power supply crunch.
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1923. A major earthquake hit Tokyo. It didn’t stop them from going into Manchuria.
Manchuria was 1931.
So it just slowed them?
Maybe it slowed them down a bit? Japan didn’t invade Manchuria until 1931.
Wonder how much the Russians are charging the Chinese for Siberian coal?
Gee. I wonder how Xixing Ping’s approval rating is doing. 100% favorable, due to fear of reprisals, no doubt.
For a number of years before outright invading, the Japanese were aggressively pushing heroine on the Chinese, who were not allowed to carry weapons while enforcing Chinese laws against heroine, due to some kakamamee treaty they were forced to sing. See Moment in Peking by Lin YuTang. Whole book is engrossing, and I can’t recall the exact chapter.
Floods in July they say killed more than 300 people, that is the official number. The more than means 10 times or 20 times more. They either undercount the dead or they don’t consider them people.
In July, a two mile long tunnel filled with rush hour traffic also filled up with water. After that the Chinese government put walls around both ends so people could not see what was inside even though they could only see the first couple hundred feet. Anyone caught peering over the fences or taking pictures was beaten on the spot by police. Nobody knows how many people died in there. They couldn’t get out by driving.
Dunno; he may be on verge of losing Mandate of Hell.
Always works like that in the Twilight Zone. That’s a fair measure.
(Free spell Check!)
Any updates on the 3 Gorges dam?
They are down to coal to energy right before winter so this is great news from GOD above:-)
My computer spell checks itself...badly. I type one thing, and later see what spell check has done to it. Unrecognizable.
Women shouldn’t carry long swords. Not because it’s threatening (it’s not), but because they can’t get the damned thing out of the scabbard quickly.
Heroine; just a happy little auto correct error! (Stuned beebers!)
One of the things the CCP has been doing has been engaging in Weather Modification in an attempt control water in arid regions. Have they succeeded with the untended effect is that it may have resulted in too much water in the wrong places?
I told them Dr. Fu Man Chu was unreliable. Like a pulp fiction character or somebody out of an old movie.
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