I was born in 1998. A few years ago, Henan was the most populous province in China. I was born in the most populous province in the world. People are not only proud of numbers, but also the simple logic behind them. We are located in the Central Plains, with few natural disasters, which is not only safe but also fertile. I really haven't experienced any disaster. I have never seen mountains and seas since I was a child. Therefore, most news about natural disasters on TV is far away from us. The impression is that during the earthquake in 2008, we felt the lights on the roof shaking. The teacher took us to the open space by the school lake for 20 minutes, and we even whispered that there was no class.
My two best friends and I, both eight-month-old and six-month-old pregnant women, came to visit Zheng Hong at one o'clock on a rainy afternoon. The purpose of their trip is to buy a nursing suit for confinement. Let me answer first. Some people will criticize why pregnant women come out in this weather. In the early morning, the evacuees in the mall told us to leave quickly, saying that the water was not deep. His 1.8-meter-tall man said that the water reached his waist. Someone asked: What about pregnant women? That's what he asked. )
1. Zhengzhou is not without heavy rain, especially during the summer vacation every year. The weather forecast only says today's heavy rain. There is no red tape about the suspension of classes, and everyone thinks it is the same as in previous years. In Zhengzhou, a city where taking a rest alone has become the knowledge of the bosses of major enterprises, as long as the boss doesn't stop working, employees taking time off because of the weather will be understood as melodramatic and irresponsible ... It seems that whether to take a rest or not is in the hands of individuals, but in fact, once someone starts to calculate how much salary they will lose if they don't go today, how to do the full attendance award, will the boss criticize me, what the leaders will think of me, and whether it will affect their promotion, almost no one will choose to take time off.
We chose to come here because it is the only shopping mall in Zhengzhou with a direct subway, so we feel that as long as we get on the subway, we don't even need to take an umbrella today.
A friend of mine and her husband run a small restaurant, and they didn't ask for help. He was in charge of takeout and she was in charge of the kitchen. This lasted for several months, and the sudden rain forced them to close the store one day. And we usually go to the store to find her, and there is no more suitable way to be together. Girls want to go shopping when they have nothing to do, and they have to be busy on sunny days, so we decided to take the subway to the mall and never drive.
4. Why do pregnant women go shopping? This kind of talk is simply mindless. So many people are trapped, why don't you ask why it rains and why people with suitcases come out? Maybe parents have promised their children to come to the mall today to buy his favorite Lego toys to celebrate his birthday. The man carrying a suitcase may have come to Zhengzhou on business, and transferred from the railway station to the shopping mall to have dinner with friends he hadn't seen for several years. No one really wants to add chaos to the city. Should pregnant women stay at home for ten months for two months?
At three o'clock in the afternoon, we heard the broadcast that the subway station at Exit C of Dongfeng Road was closed. I ran to make sure it was closed. Then go to the subway entrance of the last shopping mall, and the result is still the same. The escalator here is half open, and it is raining heavily. The elevator has stopped. The staff suggested that we go out from another exit and take the subway as soon as possible, that is, cross the road for a few hundred meters. But it's raining heavily at this time, and there's no point in holding an umbrella. I don't care, but I can't take two people with stomachs to take risks. We chose to stay in the mall until the rain abated. Facts have proved that we are right, otherwise it is a line of life and death.
The business of selling slippers in shopping malls is getting better and better, so I can only comfort myself by shopping while waiting. On the fifth floor, there is the largest floor-to-ceiling window with a view of the outside. There are many people there, so I squeezed in to pay attention to this rainstorm with everyone. This intersection has completely existed like a river. The car can only see the roof, and it may still be floating. The bus flooded the window. The silver fence made of aluminum was deformed by collision, and it floated on the water. If it is only partial, it is almost the only physical evidence that can prove that this is not the Yellow River, but the street.
At about five o'clock, we waited for a long time to see this posture, and turned to the top floor to prepare for dinner. Suddenly, there was a power outage around the mall 1/3, and the downstairs was already noisy. Out of panic, we didn't find a shop to sit down and went down to the escalator with electricity on the other side to see what was going on. When the elevator descended, we saw the straight ladder in the corridor. The friend said, what about the people in the straight ladder? I'm scared, because we're probably in there, too. No one would have thought that such a stable system would have an accident before the power failure. Although we humans evolved from darkness, we can accept endless darkness, but we can't accept the darkness in a closed space, the kind of darkness that is almost suffocating. Even if there was no subway incident. Let's go down and wait. The store that opened the door is still smiling, so customers can go in and try it on. The mall can't hear the rain outside. They may not look at their mobile phones and have no time to walk to the window. The front desk of the mall has been calling, but there is no substantive reply, such as when to restore power supply. Obviously, the heavy rain surprised everyone. Cell phones are also starting to lose signal. Looking down from the third floor, the first floor is full of water, and the first floor is water curtain cave. The seriousness of the situation is beyond our cognition step by step. We wandered between the second and fourth floors for more than an hour, and pregnant women were easily hungry. We decided to eat on the eighth floor again, and there was an escalator at this time. We thought at least we didn't have to worry about going hungry tonight.
Fortunately, I borrowed two charging treasures before the power outage. By the eighth floor, the charging treasure I enjoyed had been snapped up, because there was no electricity and I could only borrow it. We found a mutton hotpot nearest to the elevator, and there was no one at home. The food was served quickly, and the food was not finished. This time, all the shopping malls were cut off, except for the emergency lights in the restaurant, which used charcoal stoves, even if there was no electricity. We are glad to choose this restaurant. The merchants didn't drive us away, nor did they urge us to finish eating quickly. Instead, they comforted customers and even helped us light up with our mobile phones, which is fresh in our memory! Because it is close to the elevator, more and more people come to eat, and no one plays mobile phones to concentrate on eating. In the traditional decoration of red walls and yellow tiles, steaming steam floated in the air. The manager repeatedly stressed that "there is no electricity, no mutton rolls, only fresh-cut mutton." Several tall waiters used flashlights to deliver meals to customers. This scene is both magical and warm.
Several tables are eaten by one person. Everyone seems to have the same idea. It's only six o'clock, but we don't know when we will get home. We should eat more meat and stay longer. Everyone ate mutton hotpot without saying a word, accompanied by emergency lights and the crying of children. The hot air eased the tension somewhat. After eating, I returned to the French window on the fifth floor, still surrounded by people. I pushed past, and the sky was gloomy like the middle ages before the war. The heavy rain poured down relentlessly. The center of the intersection of Dongfeng Road and Huayuan Road was not only flooded to the neck, but the transformer caught fire with a bang and exploded in the rain. I have seen more dangerous news on the news before, but this time our mobile phone was disconnected. We saw the sparks and heard the explosion with our own eyes, which dashed our original plan to go out and stay in a nearby hotel and then go home. There may be electricity in the water. At this time, there are emergency lights in the mall, and the crowd is on 1-4 floor. Employees are guarding the switch that is cut off due to power failure, fearing that the goods will be stolen. A Schrodinger security door was pulled out from the cosmetics and skin care shop on the first floor, with transparent tape on it. Lancome and Chanel put a lot of paper on the tape. As a simple enclosure, children's crying never stops, but because the mall is big enough, they can always find a quiet area. Every time they find a place to sit down, I will go out and have a look. I'll come back without an umbrella after a little rain. At night, you can only see the brightly lit river outside the shopping mall, which is even less optimistic.
At about eight or nine o'clock, the emergency lights went out, and everyone was even more flustered. From time to time, people wearing camouflage uniforms, overalls and high boots appear with horns and often don't speak. There were already people around, so we squeezed in. But it was dark and messy, and the ground was a little slippery. I asked them to find a place to sit and wait for my news, but there was no such good news as taking us out of the mall tonight. Just: the water is waist-high, we can leave as soon as possible, pregnant women and children can wait, and we ask almost at the same time: what can we do? No response. There is a glimmer of hope in my heart that I will be treated well, but after waiting many times, we probably know that we can't get out tonight. They asked us to gather from the fourth floor to the second floor. They said there would be more oxygen. It seems that there is really no better arrangement. We also arrived at the second floor. Due to the extreme concentration of the crowd, standing by the escalator, we can feel the hollow vibration on the ground. There is no water in the bathroom, and every toilet is terrible. The intelligent navigation robot turns its back on us with its head down. Sorry, toilets, hand sanitizers and automatic sensing faucets were the first to be paralyzed. Someone has been smoking in the mall. My first reaction is not that this person has no quality, but the satisfaction of seeing sparks in the dark of panic. Fireworks are three meals a day, and it also refers to a little light in the room. We are not hungry, but we can't live without water, so I went to find water, only the people on these two floors. I ran to the concierge selling cars on the first floor and found a bottle of water. This is far from enough, but talk is better than nothing.
The second floor is so crowded that it is difficult for us to find the steps to sit down. There are people everywhere, because people are so big that it is difficult to sit on the ground and stand up directly. Some people have been lying on the ground sleeping, others are lying on the carpet under the counter, on the cartons, and the most comfortable is the crawling carpet with children for picnics. And we just want to find cartons, which reminds me of the night in Victoria Harbour, when Filipino maids sat on both sides of the footbridge with big cartons and talked with their families by video. Above is the perfect rain-proof overpass glass, and below is clean cardboard, which separates the filth of the soles of the feet and makes people have a home. My friend didn't give me pressure from beginning to end, nor did he ask me to find a sofa, an armchair or a cushion ... That night, our requirements were very low-cardboard. But I asked several aunts with cartons where they had gone. They all said they were in a daze and waved at us. I have to conserve my strength and sit down where there is a signal.
We sat on the ground and began to contact our families. After a while, a man was carrying a box and asked him if he wanted mineral water. We shouted at once, and we bought all three bottles left, which was twice as expensive as usual, but we could leave the carton without sitting on the cold ground. They asked their husbands to tell their parents, "I'm fine. Let them go to bed early and don't worry about me. " My mother is staying at the hotel for the time being. She doesn't know I'm trapped here. She even sent me a smiling face saying that you are the safest person in our family. Do not go out. I know talking to her will only increase my worries. I told her to go to bed early.
At this time, the mobile phone still has 58% power, and the charging treasure has been used up, which is close to zero. I asked them how much power their phones had: 40% and 30%. We realized that all three people's mobile phones were dead, so I turned off the network that had been trying to load but failed. The second floor is the noisiest. People cry for help from time to time If we want to have a rest, we must go upstairs. The only bright place on the third floor is as crowded as the railway station in Spring Festival travel rush boom, and the fourth floor is supported by elevators. There is the darkest shop passage in the corridor on the fourth floor. We found a place to rest in a shoe store, with a mobile phone flashlight, two long shoes-trying benches, a cloth chair similar to fishing, a soft chair and a kindergarten child. We were so happy that we started decorating. They can lie on the soft sofa with empty cartons on their calves.
Because they have been standing for too long, their backs are sore and their legs hurt. I was relieved to see them lying down. It doesn't matter whether I lie down sitting or standing. One friend fell asleep, and the other friend was lying and chatting with me. At three o'clock, I heard a noise downstairs. I got up at once, and the man with a flashlight anxiously shouted in Henan dialect: Don't sleep, go down and get water, ham and bread. I turned on my cell phone flashlight and ran down. There is still water on the first floor. We went downhill from the mall to the basement, and everyone was soaked in the water, waiting for a little comfort.
Walking slowly, I finally got the distributed materials. To be honest, the food I saw was piled like a hill, but when I returned along the route, the long queue made me think it might not be enough. When I was waiting in line, I heard that there were about three or four thousand people here. I'm holding a bag without a handle, and my hand keeps pulling. If I don't leave the water and bread, I will fall. Climbing from the first floor to the fourth floor, I showed the way to the people on the road, found them through the secret door with advertising words in the dim light, and put down my things. Then I remembered that I didn't turn on my cell phone all the way, but I actually touched my flashlight back.
We added some energy and received relief food for the first time in our lives. Teasing each other about today's experience without complaining, just like chatting in the dormitory with the lights off at school, will soon be unbearable and ready to have a rest. Woke up in an hour. It's almost dawn at 5: 18, so I'll hurry down and explore. Although there is still no signal, half of the commercial vehicle tires soaked outside the shopping mall yesterday have been exposed today. Visually, the water level of at least 40cm has subsided. I'm so happy to see this, so I don't have to worry about staying in the mall. I quickly ran back, happily turned on my mobile phone to show them the photos, and assured them that we would be home at ten o'clock today!
At dawn, we also decided to go out and have a look and put the chairs back. Lost the cardboard. At this time, the combined power of the three mobile phones is less than 60. The urgent task is to find a way to go home. Although I really didn't want to watch them paddle, even at the ankles, because there was no signal in the mall, we decided to go out together and contact our families where there was a signal. Didi closed the taxi service, so it is impossible for the mall to take us to a safe place. Each of us can only rely on ourselves. However, we have no complaints about the rescue that hasn't arrived yet, because compared with those people who live in villages in flood discharge areas, are washed away in tunnels at any time by floods and trapped in subways, we just live a little harder, but they are a line of life and death. They will definitely give priority to aid. At present, people of the same age only know how to drive mobile navigation, and everyone can tell the difference between east, west, north and south, but almost no one knows the direction of the urban terrain. Now our understanding of this city has added another dimension. As the rain subsided, the three of us leaned against the building with umbrellas (there was more water on the road) to find a convenience store. Only a local "Yue Lai Yue Xi" convenience store is still open, and the door is piled up like a garbage station. I guess it was flooded last night, and we didn't have time to clean it up in the morning, so we moved out and opened the door by ourselves. There are many empty shelves in the shop, and there is an umbrella left. Go on after buying, my friend's car is flooded and I can't get through. There is no signal in the community, and I can't contact my husband. Although I don't really want to trouble others, I don't know the situation on the road because my friend has to walk more than 20 kilometers. But there is no better way for my current situation, and it is not easy for two pregnant women to survive until now. And I called him at six o'clock in the morning, and the phone prompt was busy. I also prepared for the worst. It is understandable that I haven't woken up yet. But a minute later, I received the most touching phone call. He said he was calling me, too, and we met in a safe place a kilometer later. You don't say thank you for your kindness. Remember today's gratitude, and there will always be opportunities to be grateful later. Along the way, fences, cars and branches are mixed together, and pedestrians walk in the middle of the road, because the roads on both sides have collapsed, which reminds me of the idiom of starving everywhere. Order has become the purpose these days.
After returning home, the sound of an ambulance kept coming from the window. I'm not afraid. Every car carries the hope of rebuilding its home and runs to the highway. ...