Posted on 10/15/2021 8:58:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Continuous rainfall for more than ten days has caused the lower reaches of the Luo River in China’s west to spill their banks. Large volumes of floodwater released from upstream have destroyed two dams in one county, and villages are flooded. Local jujube growers and those in animal husbandry have suffered serious losses.
The autumn harvest is at a severe loss in Dali County of Weinan city, Shaanxi Province, where 108 villages have been affected by floods.
According to local media reports, Dali County has experienced heavy rains this fall. Water levels in the Wei River and Luo River running across the province have exceeded their warning levels, with some areas experiencing serious floods.
In Dali’s Zhaodu town, about 29,000 acres of farmland were flooded, and 25,126 people had to be urgently evacuated.
As to the reason for the flooding, some locals have voiced suspicion that it’s caused by the local authorities intentional release of floodwaters to protect other areas.
Xin Ming (alias), a villager in Xinsi village, Zhaodu town, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that he believes that in order to protect Gansu Province and Henan Province, the authorities quickly released a large volume of water into the Dali area, bursting local river banks.
“The village was completely submerged, about two meters (6.6 feet) deep, and the houses and furniture were all immersed in the water,” he said.
Posts on social media by other local villagers in the disaster-stricken areas, across Zhaodu and Dali County, also said, “In order to protect Gansu Province in the upper stream, and Henan Province in the lower stream, [authorities in] Shaanxi Province opened their own gates for two flood releases. The flood passed through Dali, and the dam broke.”
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Rice. Buy lots of rice right now!
We buy a lot of products from China but they buy a lot of grain and pork from the U.S. The other major producer is Brazil. Brazil is having crop issues this year as well due to an early frost. We could easily starve China. and we should If they invade Taiwan.
Ok so that is good? We sell the agricultural products and they sell us high tech and manufactured goods. We are 3rd world debtor nation....
They cant produce those goods if we are starving their work force and their military. Be American. Buy American !
Xi, when asked about what he was doing to help his farmers, said, “We have too many stinkin’ farmers. Let them eat whatever floats by”!!!
American businessmen cannot be trusted and are globalist whores. They’ll sell beef to the Taliban if you let them.
I do agree with you there. China owns two or more of the big pork processing plants here in our country.
If China starts a war, all bets are off. We can stop the export of food to their country. We can ramp up manufacturing here. In the end, it could benefit America long term. But this remains to be seen. China is having their own economic meltdown as we speak. Interesting times my friends.
Just when AMChina theatres are reopening: no jujubes!
China’s always had problems with controlling their waters all the way back to their Dynasty days. In their thinking putting dams up everywhere, and there are hundreds in China, is their solution. But they still haven’t figured it out in controlling the dams let alone the rain waters.
Bttt
Oh my, use food as a weapon?
Who’d of thunk it?
PAst time to put some pressure on the Chi-Coms.
Just don’t expect f-Joe Biden to Ever do such.
The Corps of Engineers did the same thing here.
A lot of rice is grown in Arkansas.
I suspect that a great deal of the problem in China is that most of the floodplains not already part of some reservoir are occupied by farms, if not cities and villages. It’s fallout from long term overpopulation of these areas, and a labor intensive farm system. The latter is changing, but, nothing like what the US has developed. At least not yet.
It’s not that the US doesn’t have flooding problems sometimes too, but, by contrast, we have enormous areas along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, for example, that have been left as bottomlands to naturally flood when heavy rains come. A lot of these areas are Wildlife Management Areas and Refuges, both State and Federal. Some smaller areas, often adjoining, are private hunting clubs and such. Other areas are farmland that may get planted late some years, but, they are lands farmed not by villagers nearby, but by some operation likely miles away, with big-*** equipment and trucks. 99% of the time there is no one around. If things go awry (an early wet fall?) the operation collects its crop insurance and resets for next year. Other areas are private woodlots, though many I’ve seen are not actively managed.
I get PO’d at the mapping providers like Google because for some reason their satellite imagery of my region is usually taken during the spring, and in a typical spring about half of some of the river counties are under water. Then Google etc. are thoroughly erratic about placement of water most of the rest of the year in their street map view. So, trying to figure out what roads really are passable in the summer involves going out and finding out oneself. The maps app will probably mislead you.
My wife and I recently came across an ATV area near the river. It’s a perfect setup: The ATV’ers can get their ya-ya’s out, most of summer into fall, most years, and it doesn’t really matter how much they tear things up: Soon enough, the river will rework the area and erase any sign the ATV’s were ever there, all while the area acts to reduce flood crests on the river.
Biden said, “Amateurs. Who needs a flood to destroy agriculture?”
Could Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles (Harvey Korman) get his Rainsinettes?
If not, this is the very definition of a crisis.
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