Original title: Typhoon “Lu Bi” struck Fujian: Wanfo Temple was flooded and the party secretary of Wuyou Village died in emergency rescue
China News Service, Fuzhou, August 7th (Reporter Lin Chunyin) At 14 o’clock on the 7th, on Zhongguan Street in Nanyu Town, Minhou County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, this year’s No. 9 Typhoon “Lu Bi” brought heavy rainfall. The stagnant water is receding, and a thick layer of silt is revealed at a slightly higher level.
At the end of the street, there is the Fuzhou Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, known as the “first ancient temple in the Southeast”. The flood that once flooded the mountain gate but not the release pond has also subsided to the calf of the China News Network reporter. Inside the temple, the monks are cleaning.
Nanyu Town in Minhou County was the hardest hit area caused by the typhoon hitting Fuzhou. In the town, the Wanfo Temple, located at the foothills of Qishan Mountain, was once flooded. The residents of the surrounding villages and towns who were urgently evacuated were returning to the village to save themselves after spending the night in the temporary settlement site where the primary school was rebuilt.
Jiang Lin’s four religious supplies stores in front of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple suffered a disaster. In front of the store, a stone cow statue is more than two meters high, with muddy water leaving no mark on the top; a one-meter high Dehua white porcelain Guanyin statue is also wrapped in yellow mud.
Fuzhou Fire mobilized more than 70 fire rescue personnel to rescue and evacuate more than 350 trapped residents.Photo by Chunlei“The flood was rising too fast, I thought it would be up to 1 meter, and the last 3 meter high loft was also flooded. One tool cart has no roof, and one of them floats. I don’t know where to go.” Jiang Lin said, “My heart is full. It’s cold.”
Jiang Lin and his wife Zheng Hua sold their real estate in Fuzhou eight years ago and set up a store of more than 300 square meters on Zhongguan Street in Nanyu Town. The shop is home”.
Not long ago, Jiang Lin just drove to the fragrance store in Yongchun, Quanzhou to buy goods. “The fragrance of summer is dry and will not be moldy. Nowadays, people pay attention to environmental protection, and the fragrance should be light in color and taste good.”
However, when a heavy rain hit, all the gold, silver, tin foil and incense in the store were flooded and soaked, causing a loss of nearly 800,000 yuan (RMB, the same below). Standing in the store, the 45-year-old Jiang Lin suddenly choked up, “Now, what’s the smell?”
On August 7, villagers rescued themselves after Typhoon No. 9 “Lu Bi” raged in Zhongguan Village, Nanyu Town, Minhou County, Fuzhou City.Photo by Zheng HuaLin Qianliang, who was born in 1983, also has a store in front of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, selling religious supplies. He told reporters that the people in Fujian who “do this business” are willing to help people, “have a great strength”; before the disaster relief in Henan, “everyone raised more than 1.5 million yuan, loaded a truckload of daily necessities and drove over.”
“After the flood receded, the post-disaster recovery has only just begun.” Lin Ganliang said, he would definitely be able to help each other and save himself, “people are the most important.”
Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple covers an area of 1,310 acres. It was rebuilt by Master Guanglin, Shisong Temple, an ancient temple in the Song Dynasty. It is named after the ten thousand white porcelain Buddhas in the temple. It is an important jungle in Fujian. Master Yaohui from the Supervisory House of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple told reporters that in previous typhoon seasons, the temple had no water accumulated at an ankle. This time the typhoon struck with heavy rain and flooded water in Zhongguan Street overflowed the mountain gate, reaching a height of one meter, and invaded the front of the Tianwang Temple.
“Now, the monastery is organizing manpower to patrol the mountain for self-rescue to avoid secondary disasters such as landslides,” said Master Yaohui.
Wang Hao, a staff member stationed at the Jizo Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, said that the temple is built on a mountain, the temple is high, the monastery is strictly managed, the monks and laymen are in order, and they are starting to save themselves. “The Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple is worry-free.”
After the disaster, the Fuzhou Fire Fighting team quickly dispatched more than 70 fire rescue personnel to rescue and evacuate more than 350 trapped residents in Minhou.
“There are many times going back and forth. The water rises quickly and the current is turbulent. It didn’t take long for the water to rise from the thigh to the neck after entering Nanqian Village.” At the end of the first stage of rescue, “Blue Sky Rescue and many other civilian rescue teams are also involved in the rescue.”
In the early morning of August 6, rescue was still ongoing.Photo by ChunleiIn Xiapu County, Ningde City, Fujian Province, Sun Limei, party branch secretary of Guxian Village, Songshan Street, visited the village on the 6th to clean the culvert, but unfortunately fell into the water and was swept away by the rapids. At 21 o’clock that day, her body was found.
This female village cadre who was awarded the top ten village (community) leaders of Ningde City in 2020 and an outstanding party worker in Ningde City, her life is fixed at 44 years old.
According to a report from the Flood Control Office of Fujian Province, as of 6 o’clock on the 7th, “Lu Bi” caused super heavy rainfall in Fujian, flooding many places and causing waterlogging; the local transferred nearly 90,000 people. (Finish)
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