[Epoch Times, July 21, 2021](The Epoch Times reporters Hong Ning and Li Yun interviewed and reported) In the past few days, heavy rainfall has been encountered in many parts of Henan, which caused the flood discharge of Zhengzhou Changzhuang Reservoir on July 20. Paralyzed, with heavy casualties. After the flood subsided, there were at least hundreds of collapses on Zhengzhou’s roads. The local water and electricity were cut off, and there was a panic buying wave in vegetable markets and supermarkets. A large number of people were living in a difficult situation, and the people were panicked.
Reservoir floods soared, causing heavy casualties
According to comprehensive land media reports, on July 20, many parts of Henan Province encountered large-scale record-setting heavy rainfall. After the red warning of heavy rain, Zhengzhou’s flood control emergency response was upgraded to Level I. The water levels of almost all rivers have skyrocketed, and at least 17 large and medium-sized reservoirs have exceeded their flood limits.
Under the skyrocketing water level, Zhengzhou’s Zhongmou Changzhuang Reservoir discharged floods with all its strength. The flood flooded the subway. The entire subway station turned into a river. A train on Line 5 was trapped in the tunnel. The water filled the carriages, causing heavy casualties. Trains passing through Zhengzhou are suspended. Even the front door of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan was full of floods, and vehicles, debris, and corpses that were washed away by mud flow were everywhere.
So far, Zhengzhou authorities have announced dozens of casualties. A large number of videos of drowning people have been posted on the Internet, and the bodies of the dead can also be seen in subway stations.
Large-scale collapse of the ground in the raging flood
On July 21, Zhao Ming (pseudonym), a citizen of a community in Zhengzhou, revealed to the Epoch Times reporter, “My colleague said that it is possible for one or two hundred people to die yesterday, and more than 15 people in the car.”
“The flood washed a lot of ground collapse, and the underground was empty. I personally think that the urban area has collapsed so severely. It may be because the road surface is hardened, the rain is heavy, and the drainage system cannot keep up. In addition, the terrain of Zhengzhou is low in the west and high in the east. It’s all going to low places. Of course, the most important thing is that the drainage system can’t keep up.” Zhao Ming said.
In the early morning of July 21st, he went out to grab some shopping items. In a section of about 200 meters, he frequently saw the road collapse. “Such a large amount of water slowly took the soil away and suspended it. Once it collapses, this is a problem. The most dangerous.”
According to a local radio report on the afternoon of the 21st, as of now, there have been 170 road collapses, 146 trees collapsed, and 26 walls collapsed in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou alone.
A total of 16 pavement collapses, 7 wall collapses, 4 culverts with serious water accumulation, Sipo Liulitun construction site foundation pit inverted tower crane tilt, and railway slope protection collapsed about 40 meters were found in Zhengzhou Nanyang Road Street.
Zhao Ming said that such a serious disaster in Zhengzhou was caused by flood discharge from reservoirs. “Several reservoirs are releasing floods at the same time. The news said that there were also dike breaches in parts of the Yellow River embankment, saying that 7 of them were blocked, but they were not blocked. (The government) did not say either.”
Power communication cuts off people’s hearts and panic
Under the flood disaster, many local people are in trouble. Zhao Ming said that since this morning, many restaurants have been closed due to water and power outages. There is no way to replenish things in the vegetable markets and supermarkets. Vegetables are basically gone. The wholesale market cannot go through, and the vegetable market is basically out of stock.
“Shooting things, you can only grab something. My family has supplies in reserve, but we can’t store too much water.”
Zhao Ming said, “The citizens are a little panic now. Breakfast is already very tight, and many people line up to buy food.”
At the same time, large-scale power outages and communications were blocked in the city.
Zhao Ming said: “My home telecom operator’s network is down, and my mobile phone and wifi can’t be used, but I have another mobile communication network that I can use.”
In addition to Zhengzhou, floods have also occurred in Gongyi, Ruzhou, Luoyang and other places in Henan, and a large number of requests for help have emerged from the victims everywhere. But the help posts were censored on the Internet, and some were deleted.
The reporter also called Zhengzhou’s publicly released calls for people in need of rescue many times, but they were unable to get through.
On July 21, the Henan flood control press conference announced: According to incomplete statistics, this round of heavy rainfall has caused more than 1.24 million people in 89 counties (cities, districts) and 560 towns in the province. 7 people died and lost contact.
Because the Chinese Communist Party’s official media have always concealed the truth, the real disaster situation cannot be known to the outside world.
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