China suffering seriously flooded by rainstorms
By Sun
@Sun7788 (260)
Changzhou, China
July 8, 2016 9:31am CST
Recently, heavy rainstorms has hit many provinces around the mid and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, resulting in the collapse of 41000 houses and the death of 128 people, still worse, the numbers keep going up.
I lived in Changzhou city, Jiangsu province, The area has also been affected by rainstorms. Continuous rainstorm made the underground parking of my residential zone submerged, My neighbour's pet which was usually locked in a cage in the basement was drowned, what a pity!
I donated some money to help combating floods and the disaster-relief work. Hope everything goes well.
When facing the natural disaster, humans are so small, yet with the hope to survive and efforts to rebuild our home, humans are so great. If the whole earth is overwhelmed by floods oneday, will the Noah's Ark appear and who can be saved?
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9 responses
@sunilparthan (6302)
• India
9 Jul 16
@Sun7788 yes that should be done as soon as possible
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@averygirl72 (37845)
• Philippines
12 Jul 16
Heavy rains and floods are problems now almost any part of the world now. It's the same problems here in the Philippines. There are places really that are prone to floods, luckily the place I live is safe from floods
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
13 Jul 16
@Sun7788 today the Philippines attacked an island held by the Chinese. Is this the start of World War 3?
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
13 Jul 16
@veganbliss We won't accept the illegal arbitration. We will punish whoever infense our chinese nation, no matter how far away they are.
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
9 Jul 16
Something worse happened according to news reports, in Anhui province, six thousand pigs in pig farm failed to be evacuated because of health and antiepidemic restrictions. The feeders had to say goodbye to them, double loss of emotion and economy, how said!
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@Letranknight2015 (51969)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
I think the only practical way to avoid floods is either built a second floor w/c can be you permanent home, or settle on a city that's never been affected by floods.
I've donated some back in 2013 when we suffered haiyan storm. I think it's best if people starts having a boat home these days.
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@Letranknight2015 (51969)
• Philippines
12 Aug 16
@Sun7788 I hope some one successfully builts a floating city. that's one assurance that we can't be killed by a strong flood.
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
13 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 Good idea, as the world faces the crisis of global warming, a floating living style will be the trend in the future. If a floating city can have some power equipment, it can travel some other places, amazing!
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
13 Jul 16
Nanjing Province was under water. My friend's house was half under water. They sent me photos of a school of fish swimming past their window!
Down here, we have a series of locks all along the river to regulate the water level. We haven't had a flood here since the 1950's. Did your government use this system along the Yangtze River also?
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
13 Jul 16
@Sun7788 here are some history & pictures... might help:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/442689838345962628/
https://www.ecosystem.unsw.edu.au/logs/murray-icon-wetland-survey/aerial-survey-6th-november-2014
Over forty million years ago the Murray River started to form. The Murray River has a world of history behind it that when learnt can help the understanding of how the Murray River functions and how...
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
13 Jul 16
@veganbliss Thank you so much, the River Murray has perfect water storage and irrigation, amazing ecosystem.China should strengthen safe construction of flood storage and urban sewerage system, we need to learn advanced technology from overseas.
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
13 Jul 16
I have to admit my country lagging behind in the development of flooding control technology. Prevention is better than relief. I was impressed by advanced techniques of developing countries, Yet whether these locks are suitable for our actual situation, we need to practice...
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