Severe floods hit China's Henan province, 20 July 2021

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INSANE!!!!!! See video:

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Torrential rainfall and burst rivers swamp Henan cities

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/20/china-henan-flood/

Heavy rains flood city, subway in central China, killing 12

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Heavy flooding hits central China, affecting tens of millions
Torrential rainfall and burst rivers swamp Henan cities

Severe floods hit China's Henan province

 

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slightly o/t,
Iran July 17

Austria July 18

and of course we know about Germany and other parts of Europe last week

 

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''Updated:
41 minutes ago
Dam warning as deadly storm hits central China
The Chinese army warned that a stricken dam in central Henan province “could collapse at any time” after being severely damaged in torrential storms that killed at least 12 people and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.

Weather authorities for Henan and Zhengzhou, the state capital, raised the emergency response to the heavy rain to the highest level, with forecasts predicting the heavy rain would continue until Wednesday night.''

 

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Video:
At least 12 killed in floods in Zhengzhou, China

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''Updated:
41 minutes ago
Dam warning as deadly storm hits central China
The Chinese army warned that a stricken dam in central Henan province “could collapse at any time” after being severely damaged in torrential storms that killed at least 12 people and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.

Weather authorities for Henan and Zhengzhou, the state capital, raised the emergency response to the heavy rain to the highest level, with forecasts predicting the heavy rain would continue until Wednesday night.''

“Overnight, authorities warned the deluge had created a 20-metre (66-foot) breach in the Yihetan dam in Luoyang – a city of approximately seven million people – with the risk that it “may collapse at any time”.

The PLA’s Central Theatre Command said it had sent soldiers to carry out an emergency response including blasting and flood diversion.”

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eta: @dotr (wave)
Photo of dam at link (July 5)
Chinese army warns dam battered by storms could collapse - France 24

 

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''Updated:
41 minutes ago
Dam warning as deadly storm hits central China
The Chinese army warned that a stricken dam in central Henan province “could collapse at any time” after being severely damaged in torrential storms that killed at least 12 people and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.

Weather authorities for Henan and Zhengzhou, the state capital, raised the emergency response to the heavy rain to the highest level, with forecasts predicting the heavy rain would continue until Wednesday night.''

It seems two other dams collapsed yesterday in China and Mongolia?

 

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Deaths in flooded subway as torrential rain hits central China
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Deaths in flooded subway as torrential rain hits central China
''About 200,000 residents were evacuated as of Wednesday as soldiers led rescue efforts in Zhengzhou – a city of more than 10 million people – where days of rain have inundated the streets and subway, local government officials said.''

''The provincial capital had “experienced a series of rare and heavy rainstorms, causing water to accumulate in Zhengzhou metro”, city officials said in a Weibo post on Wednesday.

At least twelve people were killed in the Metro, five more were injured and more than 500 were rescued, officials said.

“The water reached my chest,” a survivor wrote on social media. “I was really scared, but the most terrifying thing was not the water, but the increasingly diminishing air supply in the carriage.”

China floods: 12 dead in Zhengzhou train and thousands evacuated in Henan
''Survivors have described how water leaked through the doors, rising slowly from "our ankles to our knees to our necks". "All of us who could, stood on the subway seats," one woman wrote on Chinese social network site Weibo
Children were lifted out of the water by their parents, while others threw off anything which might hold them down.

After about half an hour, one passenger said it became "hard to breathe".