No Break In China: Heavy Rain Hits Yangtze River Again, Inundating Cities and Leaving Many Homeless

Epoch Times ^ | 08/16/2020 | Nicole Hao

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Flooding as a result of heavy rainfall in Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces caused the Yangtze River to overflow in recent days, inundating cities in China’s western regions.

The Yangtze’s water level in Chongqing city may exceed the safety level on Aug. 19, which means an embankment breach could happen at any time, according to state-run broadcaster CCTV, which cited officials.

China’s cabinet-like State Council said at a press conference on Aug. 13 that rainfall in areas along the Yangtze and Huai rivers have reached their highest levels since 1961.

A woman uses a bike to cross a flooded street after a sudden rain in Beijing on Aug. 9, 2020.

Meanwhile, the country’s deputy minister of emergency management, Zhou Xuewen, unintentionally revealed that more than 4 million people were evacuated from their homes during floods this year.

Rainfall has begun to move north to the areas where the Yellow, Hai, Songhua, and Liao rivers lie. The Yellow River has experienced flooding since Aug. 11, but authorities have kept mum about its impact.

Two Floods

The Yangtze River Committee of China’s Water Resources Ministry announced on Aug. 16 that a new flood peak formed in the Jialing River, a main Yangtze tributary, and entered the Yangtze near Chongqing, a sprawling city with more than 30 million residents.

The peak of the Jialing river flooding is expected to trigger another flood peak in the Yangtze on Aug. 19, according to the committee.

The upper-stream area of the Yangtze River is also under threat from heavy rain, Chongqing authorities said on Aug. 16. Flooding from the Jialing River and the Yangtze’s upper stream may cause the latter’s water level to top its safety limit on Aug. 19.

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Meanwhile, low-lying areas of Meishan, Guangyuan, and Deyang cities in Sichuan Province and Chongqing have been swamped by floodwaters since Aug. 13, according to videos that residents shared with The Epoch Times.

Flooding has also been reported in Lueyang, a county in Shaanxi Province. At 4:10 p.m on Aug. 16, the county government ordered all residents, regardless of rural areas or urban areas, to move to at least the third floor of buildings that have more than six stories.

The government also listed nine residential compounds that it said were too old to defend against possible flooding.

More cities in Sichuan, such as Chengdu, Ngawa, and Mianyang also reported severe flooding on Aug. 16.

Meanwhile, heavy rains also caused flooding along parts of the Yellow River, specifically in Linyi city in Shandong Province and Longnan city in Gansu Province. Stormwater submerged villages and sparked mudslides.

It’s unclear how many people were affected; there was no information about any deaths or missing persons.

[ryderann]

God is sending Xi a message.

[DannyTN]

It sure looks like it.

Don’t break your committments for freedom for Hong Kong.
Don’t rewrite scriptures.
Don’t be agressive with your neighbors

[SecondAmendment]

This could be the literal “perfect storm” that forces the CCP into WW III to maintain its grip on power ...

[DannyTN]

Don’t engineer bad viruses and unleash them on the world

[SeekAndFind]

RE: God is sending Xi a message.

Unfortunately Xi and his party do not believe in God.

[chief lee runamok]

More thousands of pounds tons of plastic flushed to the Pacific Ocean.

[9YearLurker]

What about the reported risk of the Three Gorges Dam failing? Has that passed. Was it exaggerated/fake?

[Broker]

When the Levee Breaks - In Pursuit of Truth Presents - 7.29.20 Three Gorges Dam.. Watch IPOT analysis of global impact of Dam Failure & other China stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEw1cLpFD9s&t=1s

[Buckeye McFrog]

I pray every day that God will end that evil regime and free our 1.3 billion brothers and sisters to seek Him.

How He chooses to go about it is His call.

[miserare]

I have been wondering about this, too.

Any recent photos of Three Gorges Dam?

[Mr. Rabbit]

Isn’t “Karma” part of the dominant religion there? Just sayin’

[SeekAndFind]

RE: What about the reported risk of the Three Gorges Dam failing? Has that passed. Was it exaggerated/fake?

I personally think the Dam will hold. All these talk about it failing is just wishful thinking.

[Red Badger]

Don’t build huge badly engineered dams in places that will create an unstable weather pattern................

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Isn’t “Karma” part of the dominant religion there? Just sayin’

There are probably more Christians there than Buddhists. Officially, China is atheistic.

[corkoman]

Apparently there was a week-10 day relief from the rainfall but in the past 24 hours it picked up again bigtime. The ground is saturated so it builds up fast.

[cuban leaf]

Where I live is a really good Bugout spot. However, I stopped raising chickens about a year ago. During the last flooding in China, and considering the worldwide impact of the 3 gorges dam bursting, not to mention expected financial fallout next year from the CV19 response, I purchased 20 chicks. Since it didn’t break, I was thinking I may have over-reacted. Not now.

[The Westerner]

Bookmark re: 3 Gorges Dam.

[Mariner]

“This could be the literal “perfect storm” that forces the CCP into WW III to maintain its grip on power ...”

Insightful and concise.

[Red Badger]

Video shows devastating impact if China’s Three Gorges Dam collapses:
Computer generation:

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3973169