2021: History will remember this year's natural disasters
Water and fire are relentless!
In 2021 A.D., in the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, that is, from September to the beginning of October in the solar calendar, the autumn rains ravaged the land of Sanjin like a sieve with a leaky bottom, without darkness or light. Located at the edge of Jinnan Yellow River and Fen River bank of Wanrong County, also suffered an unprecedented rain damage of the obscenity.
In the mid-autumn season, half a century has not experienced continuous rain, before and after, suddenly big and small, in more than 40 days mercilessly poured in this 1080 square kilometers, 1.02 million acres of arable land, 14 townships, 281 villages. It is understood that the amount of precipitation in more than a month exceeded the total of the previous three years. More than 400,000 children living here in the autumn rain in the heart of the rain like a heavy stone, suppressed, bored, tormented, terrified .......
With ten years of nine droughts "dry Wanrong" known as this county, located in the Emei Ridge secondary plateau, an average elevation of more than 500 meters above sea level, the Yellow River, Fen River at the foot of the flow through, unlike Jishan, Xinjiang, Hejin and other neighboring counties and cities, the ground level is close to the level of the Fen River, there is no flooding of the villages, the casualties of the situation. The situation, however, the rain disaster with the huge economic losses brought here, still let a person shocked, shuddering, eye-opening.
The collapse of the house is visible in many villages
In many villages in Wanrong, it is not difficult to find the tragic scene of the wall collapse of the house couch.
Since the lunar calendar before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wanrong began to rain continuously. For dozens of days in a row, we hardly saw the autumn sunshine, except for rain and cloudy days. Although there is no big rainstorm, but due to the high altitude of the big air flow stability, rainfall clouds hovering, and the entire Shanxi earth, the same, Wanrong is only rain not wind, the rain is solid down, all seeped into the ground. In the countryside, the old houses built in earlier years, which had survived the decades unscathed, were rarely spared as the walls and buildings collapsed in the overcast rain. Fortunately, over the years, people have built new compounds on the outskirts of villages, and these old houses are largely uninhabited, and thus have not yet been the scene of safety incidents. But Sanwen, Xicun and other mountain villages those are still in use in the winter and summer cool, beautifully decorated, comfortable to live in the upper part of the kiln six or seven meters thick layer of soil, by the continuous rainfall is not slow to infiltrate, and then collapsed. Where there is no waterproofing facilities have not been done in the cottage, there is not a house does not leak. Newly-built brick-concrete houses with poorly treated foundations were also found to be sinking or tilting. One day after the rain, a friend came to see me, saying that the house of the western neighbor was tilting and cracking the wall of his house, and the two families had a war of words as a result. This friend came to consult me and asked if this could be sued in a lawsuit. The streets and yards, as long as a little dirt on the ground, covered with moss and other green hairs, a little careless will slip and fall. Many field roads in the county were washed out and water damaged. An earthen bridge collapsed in the rain and transportation was disrupted. An old man died near the county town and could not be buried in a grave for half a month; the earth dug down more than two meters remained half muddy, and the grave could not be shaped. During the National Day is the peak of the wedding season, October 2 to 4 of these three days, where the rural areas to set up a mat tent over the happy event, eating table people's feet are stepping in the rain. "People eat at the table, water flows under their feet." Rain shoes, ponchos, umbrellas and raincoats were off the market in stores. On the night of October 3, 160 milliliters of rain fell at one time, and the buckets kept in the yard were filled with rainwater overnight. People listen with fear and trepidation day and night, or the sound of clattering raindrops in a hurry, or the sound of dripping eaves water on the ground, or the crisp sound of rain on the roof of the color steel roof of the snap. The people who have nothing to do are sighing and praying.
? The plains crops can not be harvested for a long time
? August to September on the lunar calendar is the busy season for harvesting crops and sowing wheat. But successive rains since before the Mid-Autumn Festival have led to the normal course of the fall harvest and the sowing of wheat on schedule. In the plains, patches and patches of corn, grain, cotton, sesame and other tall crops were dumped in the rain, and even if the rain stopped occasionally for a day or two, due to the fact that the water in the fields could not seep down, the crop fields were in a muddy state, and people couldn't go into the fields to harvest, and the harvesting machinery was even more powerless. Some of the corn cobs have already started to grow buds at the top; the peanut vine is pulled out to be an empty vine, the peanut beans are all shed in the soil, and almost all of the grated peanuts have sprouted. Fuji apples to the need for light coloring time, but the farmers are nestled in the home in a hurry, can not go into the fruit tree ground picking bag. Low-lying orchards are even soaked in rainwater that is deep in the trunk; a tree of jujubes is drenched with rain, and the jujubes that are sold on the streets after the rain are almost all cracked. Grapes can not be picked, rotting in the grapevine; Wanrong County in recent years to vigorously develop the persimmon industry, fresh persimmons is part of the farmers' main income, in previous years to the Fourth of July before and after the merchants will gather here to buy fresh persimmons, this year at the same time this section of the dry, fresh persimmon business was forced to interrupt the tree tree crystal red persimmons hanging in the tree at the mercy of the wind and rain. According to people over seventy years old, they live to now have not encountered such a long period of rain and heavy rain caused by the natural damage.
The mid-autumn season is the time when families are busy with grain, plowing, harrowing and grinding wheat. In previous years, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, people began to harvest the fall crops, while sowing wheat, this year until the middle of the ninth lunar month, wheat is still late sowing. Because the field was rainwater penetration of up to two or three meters deep, the ground is not divided moisture, can not be sown.
? The government's plan is to make the country's economy more efficient," he said. Compared with the townships without mudflats, farmers along the river in the western part of the county have suffered greater losses in the latter part of this rainy season. Peizhuang, Guanghua, Ronghe and other townships in the west of Wanrong County have more than 200,000 acres of beach land. After decades of development and utilization and continue to build, when the overgrown "Wanrong Northern Wilderness", into a field into a square, forest into a network, the road connected, pipe connected to the "Wanrong Northern Warehouse". Every year to the mid-autumn season, the endless Huangfen River mudflat, the scenery is charming, the harvest is expected, people happy horses, machines roar. The vast expanse of the mudflat is the local people's treasure bowl, money tree, planted with ten thousand hectares of cotton, corn, peanuts, cereals, rice, lotus dishes, yams and other crops. In the continuous rain that lasted for dozens of days, these crops had not yet been devastated by the devastating blow. But from October after the National Day, Wanrong Fenhe upstream of the region to ensure the safety of the village, began to downstream flood discharge flood, in order to comply with the overall situation, Wanrong West Beach made a huge sacrifice. The area of Ronghe Township is the end of Fenhe River, the whole field of 710 kilometers of Fenhe River, since the Guanxian Mountain originated here and the Yellow River confluence and head east. In the course of this flood, Baoding, Qiu Jia, She Nan, Beixin, Nansin, Liu Village, Linhe, Shashi Fan and other villages of the beach was the first to bear the brunt of tens of thousands of acres of crops were flooded in one day. Subsequently, Peizhuang, Guanghua two townships of more than a dozen villages of the beach land in just three or four days, became a vast ocean, all the ripening crops into nothing. Peizhuang mudflats and Hejin border, there is a donkey, more than 200 donkeys did not have time to evacuate, only one survived. Guanghua mudflat has a pig raising, hundreds of pigs all washed away by the water. Fork in the door of the beach, there is a couple of fish farming, these years the benefits are particularly good, a year a fish pond can earn more than 100,000 yuan. This time before the arrival of the water, they kept persuading the delay is not willing to leave. When the water hit the whistling and came, the couple only drilled into more than 100,000 yuan to buy the car to the shore to run. The result is just hit the fuel door, the water came, four wheels were instantly soaked in water, the car can not move forward. They had to climb on the roof of the car to survive. Fortunately, the Peizhuang township government rescue team rushed to save the couple with a forklift.
In the face of the grim situation, the county government before this, to take effective measures, organized arrangements for manpower rescue, on the one hand, the local township government staff and village cadres, to help farmers still in the beach quickly evacuated to ensure personal safety. On the one hand, the public security police in the village intersection leading to the mudflats set up cards to prevent people from going down to the beach, in case of accidents. County party secretary, county governor also personally supervise the flood rescue. However, for the raging Fenhe River water, and then there is a great ability who can not help protect the crops. The people who have been working hard for half a year in the mudflat, in the life and death situation, can only bear the pain to give up the harvest, withdraw from the mudflat area.
Mudflat development over the years, in addition to the local people, there are hundreds of people in Henan, Northeast China, the South contracted a large area of land scale operations here, some people planting rice, a contract is thousands of acres. Some people grow cotton, the area is up to several hundred acres. The yam is in full swing in recent years in the river bank area, a new industry is flourishing, but the yam is a high investment crop, an acre of investment in tens of thousands of dollars, some people jointly planted hundreds of acres of yam, investment of up to a few million dollars. In this flood, hundreds of acres of yam all were mercilessly flooded.
? The Fen River flooding, beach crop losses are huge, although the official temporarily no accurate statistics, but the farmers around the West Beach is so self-assessment: the average loss of 3,000 yuan per acre according to the calculation, 200,000 acres of beach land losses of up to more than 6 billion. Countless farmers standing on the high cliffs, witnessed the huge investment in industry and half a year's hard work into a sea of ocean with the eastward flow, one by one, crying, collapsed on the banks of the Fen River.
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? The big evacuation of the river bank stayers
? In the process of the Fen River flooding, the township party committees along the river, the government for the evacuation of the river bank to stay farmers played a huge role.
Before the Fen River flooding, received a warning from the higher-ups and asked for the evacuation of the river bank farmers after the instructions, the village cadres immediately day and night to grab time, grab the speed of action. Three townships, all the authorities out, and village cadres along the river, urgently went to the Yellow Fen shoals, person by person, household by household emergency mobilization in their rapid evacuation. Two days in the countryside at both levels of cadres, struggling to speak, make every effort to approach, and finally retreated from the beach area of all the people. After retreating to the shore, the local farmers well, with their own homes. But hundreds of farmers from Henan, Shandong and other foreign countries have made the mudflats their home over the years, and built a lot of simple houses for the convenience of production, living here. After they came ashore, they faced the problem of food and shelter. Under the instructions of the county party committee and the government's rescue headquarters, the three townships near the river quickly utilized village committees, schools, hotels, cooperatives, and other venues to promptly accommodate these fallen victims. Ronghe, Guanghua and Peizhuang organized seven temporary shelters along the Fen River. The townships and villages provided food, clothes, bedding and other necessities for these victims. In Peizhuang Township, there is a shelter for more than 40 male and female victims, in order to ensure the convenience of their lives, the village provided two dormitories for men and women, and also provided them with one-stop catering services. In the settlement, the township and village cadres have been trying their best to calm them down as much as possible.
At the same time, the various roads leading to the beach still continue to be closed, preventing all people from going down to the beach. The government of Guanghua Township in the resettlement point to check the beach evacuees, found a foreign farmers lost. They sent several staff members to search along the Yellow River dam. Finally, they found it in Hejin City, dozens of miles upstream. It turned out that this farmer was in the mudflat when the water rose extensively, and found that the road back to the bank of Guanghua can no longer go, he had to follow the dam on the main road, ran to Hejin. After finding this field farmer, everyone put down their hearts.
On the morning of October 16, I and Wanrong Writers' Association of Qu Ji Ping, Xue Guoying, Li Huilan came to the interview along the river. After the interview with the shelter, we stood on the high cliff outside the village of Fork Gate, witnessed the boundless Yellow River beach, still the sky and water, water and mist hazy scene. Normally, as long as you stand in any corner along the western slope, what comes into your eyes is the beautiful scenery of lush green, green hectares, square fields, people and vehicles singing. Now, it is such a surprising and shocking scene.
Natural disasters, water and fire, geographically well-positioned Wanrong County in this century-old rainstorm, although after the efforts of party organizations and governments at all levels, there was no loss of life in the accident, but had to endure a natural disaster brought about by the severe test. All the villages and farmland in the county, to varying degrees, have been jeopardized.
History will remember 2021 as the year of natural disasters.
History will remember 2021 as the year of natural disasters.