【Epoch Times News on July 25, 2021】
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In the heavy rain that lasted for a day and night on July 20, the Jingguang North Road tunnel was congested again. The female taxi driver Zhu Yun and her newly bought taxi were stuck in this tunnel.
At 3 p.m. that day, Zhu Yun drove into the tunnel, but it was not until after 4 p.m. that she moved from the entrance of the Jingguang North Road Tunnel at Zhongyuan Road to the exit near Huaihe Road, a tunnel with a length of about 2 kilometers. She left. It was nearly two hours before finally walking on the slope at the exit.
Why is it going so slowly? Zhu Yun said that she believes that there are at least three reasons that aggravate the congestion of the tunnel: one of the reasons is the municipal drainage facilities in Zhengzhou. When it rains, there will be water everywhere. As the speed of vehicles decreases, Zhengzhou Many roads in Beijing began to become congested, and the second reason was that the Jingguang North Road Tunnel originally had an exit for vehicle diversion and right turn on Longhai Road, but that day, due to Jingguang Road above the tunnel and The intersection of Longhai Road has been congested for a long time. Zhu Yun, who originally planned to turn out of the exit, found that the exit had been banned. Although this measure reduced the traffic pressure on the road above the tunnel, it increased the congestion inside the Jingguang North Road tunnel. degree.
At nearly 4 in the afternoon, along with the heavy rain in Zhengzhou, the congestion in the tunnel began to increase. Zhu Yun found that although vehicles were indeed congested inside the tunnel at this time, there was not much water on the road. After being blocked for nearly 2 hours, Zhu Yun’s car finally moved to the exit of the tunnel. At this time, in front of her, there were only a few cars waiting for the traffic lights with her. If everything goes well, when the green light comes on, her car will be able to Get out of the tunnel.
But at this time, a flood from top to bottom suddenly rushed into the tunnel, flooding inside and outside the tunnel, and the flood water soon submerged the car door. The entire tunnel suddenly became a mess.
Zhu Yun found that her car and the entire tires had been submerged by the flood, and behind her, some vehicles that were blocked deep in the tunnel were quickly submerged by the flood. For a while, the entire tunnel was crying and crying for help. The sound became a piece of noise. Following the shouts, Zhu Yun saw a BMW car behind him. Two young girls were climbing on the roof of the car, crying and shouting.
Seeing that the new car she had just bought was soaked in the flood, Zhu Yun was very distressed. When she hesitated whether to continue to sit in the car and wait for the flood to pass, or immediately abandon the car to escape, someone outside the car started shouting: “Also If you don’t come out quickly, you will be drowned!” When Zhu Yun opened the car door with the help of this kind man, flood flooded the car suddenly. When they climbed upstream and climbed out of the tunnel, they looked back and saw that the flood had filled the entire tunnel. At this time, intermittent shouts were still coming from the depths of the tunnel.
“Suddenly flooded in! I was almost out of the Jingguang Road tunnel, but it was only a few minutes away.” Zhu Yun said.
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Wu Qiang is the owner of an engineering installation company in Zhengzhou. On July 20, he went out to work in a black Audi A8. In addition to him, there was the driver and his brother in the car.
On the way home, his car was stuck in a place twenty or thirty meters from the south exit of the Jingguang North Road Tunnel. As long as he exits this gate, turns right into Longhai Road, and drives less than four kilometers, he will be able to get home smoothly. But the rain rushed the car and had to turn around. They tried to control the car. After driving not far, the car stalled. The three men in the car panicked and began to call 110 and 119 in turn. The cell phone signal was weak, sometimes busy, and the call was never connected.
The muddy water is hitting the car body, the water level rises quickly, the car floats up uncontrollably, and retreats more than two hundred meters in the direction of the tunnel. The lights in the tunnel went out and plunged into pitch black. Outside the tunnel was a torrential rain. The sky was so misty that people could not see anything. The signal was intermittent, and there was no response to asking for help.
At this time, the water in the tunnel has risen to a height of 1.67 meters, and the enclosed car compartment has also begun to seep. At that moment, Wu Qiang had a terrifying thought in his heart-death was near. The situation was critical, and the three men in the car decided to save themselves. They opened the only skylight to the outside world, and the younger brother who could swim first climbed to the roof of the car and tried to swim out first. The backflow was so urgent and so many that people couldn’t move forward. He was blocked by the water, so he could only swim to one side and grab a cable on the bridge to the east. And Wu Qiang and the driver who could not swim finally climbed to the roof together.
In just ten minutes, the water poured into the tunnel quickly rose to the height of a person’s neck. The vans and cars in the front and rear sank, but no one came out. Wu Qiang who climbed to the roof of the car, except for two or three cars floating on the water, was gradually carried by the current from south to north, and nothing else was visible. The driver squatted on the roof, he squatted on the hood and grabbed the wiper on the windshield. Audi A8 is like a small island, in the muddy water, drifting to the east for a while, drifting to the west for a while, crumbling.
The water is rising, the car is sinking under seepage water, and leaving the roof is a dead end. They only have one chance-when the car drifts close to the bridge, quickly climb to the side of the bridge, climb out along, or wait for rescue. Fortunately, they seized the opportunity to climb to the bridge on the east side, and when they were stabilized, the Audi A8 at their feet seemed to have completed its mission and sank to the bottom with the remaining project materials.
Next, the younger brother first swam along the rising water to the platform, and then reached for the driver who couldn’t swim, Wu Qiang held him up from the bottom; then the two people on the shore squatted on the ground and pulled Wu Qiang up. At this moment, no one else can be seen in the tunnel. In less than three minutes, three people in shock watched the entire tunnel completely filled with rainwater.
“I’m probably the last one to escape.” Wu Qiang looked at the engulfed tunnel entrance, somewhat rejoicing that he had his life back. They were contained on the fifth floor of a small building not far from the tunnel. It was a sleepless night, and Wu Qiang sat in a daze. At three o’clock in the morning, he seemed to hear someone calling for help outside the window. Looking out the window, the Toyota Prado parked in the middle of the road, the roof of the nearly two-meter-high car could not be seen, only the forklift was busy looking for people in the rain. Save people.
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At three or four in the afternoon, Jiang Yong from Zhoukou, Henan, who came to Zhengzhou to work, drove into the Jingguang North Road tunnel in a black Harvard SUV, and got stuck at a gate.
After nearly an hour, the accumulated water on the ground quickly accumulated and rose, and gradually disappeared to the chassis of the car. The water flow hit the car, bringing out a squeaky squeaking sound. Jiang Yong pulled the handbrake, feeling a little frightened. He felt that the handbrake was a bit useless, and he kept pedaling on the brake with his foot. Perceiving something wrong, he said to his companion in the co-pilot, “I will go down and see what’s going on.”
When I got out of the car, the water hadn’t reached Jiang Yong’s knee. He glanced in the direction of the tunnel exit, “The car behind me has already got up and was floated by (water).” He immediately made a decision to let his companion get out of the car, and the two abandoned the car and escaped.
The current is very rapid. Jiang Yong said that he weighed about 150 kilograms, but he was already a bit untenable by the impact of the current. Arm in arm, he and his companion helped each other to move towards the green belt in the middle of the road.
The next thing happened almost in an instant. It took Jiang Yong about two or three minutes to reach the green belt. The car had already been rushed away. “I have the urge to go up and drive it out to save it, but I still gave up after looking around.”
Suddenly, his ears caught a fatal signal-“The sound of the water flow has been rushing, and then there was no sound for a moment, and it was very quiet. At this time, I knew that the water was full, so hurry up and withdraw.” Jiang Yong later recalled only remembering to pull himself. Shouted in his voice, “Call desperately to the person in front to go up. Soon, in about 5 minutes, the tunnel was full.”
Jiang Yong finally looked back at the tunnel, “it’s already a vast ocean.” A few big red characters in the Jingguang North Road Tunnel were submerged for a little and a half. He saw a man who should have just escaped from the car and was swimming hard to go outside the tunnel.
Editor in charge: Gao Yi
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