Floods most often become consequences of heavy rains. In China, such natural disasters, unfortunately, do not happen so rarely. The effects of floods can be very different, depending on their intensity.
On August 31, 2011, Nanmadol, a tropical storm, hit the eastern part of China. Flights were canceled in Fujian province, sea traffic was interrupted. Fishermen urgently began to call back to the port.
Fortunately, there were no serious casualties then, but in one of the villages 28 kindergarteners and their teachers remained cut off from the mainland when the territory of the kindergarten was flooded by the rising waters. In some settlements, people escaped from the water, climbing onto the roofs.
Even earlier, typhoon Nanmadol brought tropical downpours, as well as hurricane winds (gusts up to 28 m / s) to Taiwan. Then he weakened, turning into a tropical storm, but for some time he was able to bring serious damage, which he, in fact, did with part of eastern China.
On September 19, 2011, 2.6 million people were affected by floods caused by heavy rains in Sichuan Province in southwestern China. According to the Chengdu Shanbao newspaper, the towns of Dazhou and Zhongba were hit the hardest.
In the first, floods and torrential rains lasting 3 days disrupted the usual life of 1.3 million people, more than 300 thousand people were evacuated from the flooded areas. About 9 thousand buildings were destroyed, and the damage was estimated at 696 million yuan. In the second of the disaster areas, 250 thousand residents were urgently evacuated. About the same number of people suffered there as in Dazhou. As reported in ITAR-TASS, there were 13 dead and 10 missing.
On June 11, 2012 in the central, southwestern and eastern regions of China, 5 people were killed due to heavy torrential rains, more than 690 thousand were injured, and two were missing. This is local media data.
In a statement by the Flood and Drought Control Authority of the People's Republic of China, it was noted that showers had hit Hunan (central China), Jiangxi (eastern China) and Guizhou (southwest China).
Damaged or completely destroyed agricultural land on an area of about 48 thousand hectares. The authorities estimated that direct economic damage amounted to 537 million yuan, which is equivalent to 82.84 million dollars.
The riot of nature led to the rise of water to critical levels. Rescuers were sent to the regions.
