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Images (Composite picture of YouMaker multiple video screenshots) : Including on 23 July 2021, a partial collapse of the Zhengzhou subway occurred.
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Hundreds of roads collapsed in Zhengzhou after the flood, and many buildings tilted
Reporter : He Yating / Editor: Xu Gengwen / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/07/23/a103172912.html
After the floods receded in Zhengzhou, Henan, China, people were surprised to find that road collapses occurred in hundreds of places in the city, such as the Rand Center and near the subway station, and several tall buildings such as the Datong Hotel. Dangers such as the tilting of the building also appeared. Netizens posted pictures and posts on social networking platforms to remind each other to avoid dangerous areas. People panic for a while.
Zhengzhou was hit by heavy rains on 20 July and was affected by flood discharge from the reservoir, which caused severe flooding. After the torrential rain ceased, as the flood slowly subsided, people found that various degrees of ground subsidence occurred in many places in Zhengzhou. In the online community, some netizens said that road collapses had occurred in at least hundreds of locations in Zhengzhou. Netizens sent videos or pictures to each other and reminded each other to avoid dangerous areas.
The latest news is that on 23 July, the road surface of Zhengzhou Longhai Road Communication World collapsed. People saw that the underground was completely empty and people had been evacuated urgently.
Another netizen posted a post saying, "The elevated pillar foundation of the West Fourth Ring Road, Longhai Road, Zhengzhou has collapsed, and the elevated has begun to sway. Please do not go southwest as much as possible. Please tell each other!"
Mainland Chinese media reported on 23 July that rainwater poured into the first and second floors of the First Avenue shopping mall in the railway station area, causing partial collapse of the pedestrian road on the west side of Fushou Street. In places such as Datong Hotel, Telecommunications World, Jinyuan Daduhui Community, etc., there have been collapses. People in and around the Datong Hotel were evacuated at around 10 am that day.
Another short video published by netizens on the Internet showed that the Zhengzhou subway in Henan Province had collapsed, and a cement truck was dumping cement to fill the collapse.
Some netizens posted warnings that a building collapsed near the Rand Centre, and the centre had issued a notice requesting personnel to evacuate.
According to Lu Media reports, an owner of the Rand Center Building confirmed that on the morning of July 21, an emergency notice was posted at the gate of the Rand Center building, requesting all personnel to evacuate immediately. Most of the owners had already Evacuate.
In addition, on the 23rd, buildings 14, 15 and 22 of Xicheng Garden Community, West Third Ring Road, Hanghai Road, Zhengzhou, Henan Province were tilted, and 148 residents were evacuated urgently.
In fact, as early as 21 July the Epoch Times reported that many parts of Zhengzhou had collapsed to varying degrees.
Zhengzhou citizen Zhao Ming (pseudonym) told The Epoch Times reporter that he went out to grab shopping items early that morning. As a result, he frequently saw road collapses in a section of about 200 m. He analyzed that it may be that the road surface is hardened, the rain is heavy, and the drainage system cannot keep up. The flood takes away the soil on the roadbed and causes the road surface to hang in the air. "Once it collapses, this is the most dangerous."
The local radio station also reported on the afternoon of the 21st that in Zhengzhou, there were 170 road collapses, 146 tree collapses, and 26 wall collapses in Jinshui District alone. At least 16 road collapses were found on Nanyang Road Street in Zhengzhou. Seven walls collapsed. In Sipo Liulitun, the foundation pit was poured and the tower crane was tilted. The slope protection along the railway collapsed about 40 m.
News (2) to (9) / Host : Li Muyang / Publisher : News Insight / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/23/n13110980.htm
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Xinxiang disaster area rumoured to be under military control
As the rain belt moved northward, heavy rains continued to occur in Henan Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang and Jiaozuo. Xinxiang, 70 kilometers away from Zhengzhou, today (23rd) issued a red warning for heavy rain and a notice of suspension of classes.
Today (23rd) afternoon, some netizens broke the news on Twitter that Xinxiang has been under military control. Except for military vehicles of the army, no vehicles in the society are allowed to enter, and donated materials from the society cannot enter.
[Original video] Now we have gone deep into the disaster area. At present, only our Qingdao military supplies can enter. No other vehicles can enter. A truck of supplies has just been put in, and other social materials are not allowed to enter. Any vehicles are not allowed to enter, now this side has been under military control and has been under military control.
This news is currently not corroborated by other sources. We need local friends to provide us with further information. But in fact, amphibious armored vehicles appeared on the streets of Xinxiang this morning. At that time, some netizens questioned whether this is disaster relief or stability maintenance?
Xinxiang is under military control. I believe everyone can think that it must be done because the disaster is particularly serious. But it is difficult for the outside world to see the truth, because the disaster area is under military control, which means that perhaps only by flying in the sky can you see the flood in Xinxiang.
A Xinxiang netizen sent me an aerial video. The video showed that a certain place in Xinxiang, Henan has been completely submerged by floods, and rows of houses can only see the exposed roofs.
Netizens wrote in the text: Xinxiang, Henan is in danger! Has become a world of Zeguo! The most needed are rubber boats and assault boats. The situation in Xiuwu, Xinxiang, Huojia, and Hui counties is now more serious. Roads are blocked and personnel cannot be evacuated.
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The flood is still rising, the villagers helplessly form a team to save themselves
With the continuous increase in water volume, almost all of the 29 reservoirs in Xinxiang have flooded their embankments. The authorities on 23 July once again took measures to sacrifice the countryside and protect the city, and announced the release of floodwater to the Liuweipo area of Weihui City to relieve the pressure in the urban area.
It is understood that at night of 21 July, Xinxiang had 267.4 millimeters of precipitation within 2 hours, which had already surpassed Zhengzhou.
A Xinxiang resident told Caixin.com, “I flooded my house overnight, and everyone was trapped. The water reached my neck in the morning and was dragged out by a boat by the rescue team. The Eighth Middle School was also flooded. Good students have summer vacation."
In Hui County, which is close to Taihang Mountain, the situation is even more critical. This morning (23rd), Ms. Zhang, a villager in Gouxizhuang, Huixian County, told The Epoch Times that the four nearby reservoirs were releasing floods, and the authorities had not notified them in advance. When the flood suddenly rushed into the village, people were busy moving to higher places, but they were basically on the roofs of their houses.
According to Ms. Zhang, many villages in Hui County have been flooded, and the floods are still rising. The sudden flood washed away a large number of cars and destroyed three bridges. The depth of water in some villages and towns has exceeded the height of a person, and many villagers who were too late to flee had to take refuge on the roof tremblingly, waiting for rescue.
Ms. Zhang said that all the villagers had not slept for two days and two nights. Because the water keeps rising, everyone is scared, and no one dares to sleep. She said, "The water at home has risen to 1.5 meters, and the water outside is deeper."
Ms. Zhang introduced that many families have run out of food and no water to drink. The situation is very critical. But after waiting for two days and two nights, I couldn't wait for rescuers. There was no way. The villagers had no choice but to save themselves. She introduced that the civilian rescue team had just used two assault boats to transfer part of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled.
Ms. Zhang especially emphasized that "it is a non-governmental rescue team" and "it is not a rescue team organized by the municipal government." The villagers themselves asked for help by spreading information outside, so some volunteers formed a civilian rescue team to come to the rescue.
A villager under the pseudonym Li Fang also told The Epoch Times, "It is useless to report to the police several times. We need to coordinate with the village cadres and say that we can't get in outside, so we need to help ourselves first."
Ms. Li Fang introduced that she is currently squeezing with three other families on the second floor of someone else's house with her three young children, but the water level is still rising, and it has been raining outside. She said, "We feel that there is no place to evacuate around us. The water level outside has reached two or three meters."
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No retreat, rural casualties are not reported
Mr. Lin from Wangfan Village, Wucun Town, Hui County said that the rain this morning (23rd) was still quite heavy. The water on the road was two meters deep and no one could get out. Mr. Lin said, "We all retreated to the top of the building, but it's still raining!" "There are more people on the top, more than 20 people. We have nowhere to retreat, here is the lowest (topography)."
Mr. Lin said that the flood of water on the 22nd rose all at once. "It just rose to such a high level in two or three hours. The reservoirs on both sides were put together. I have been asking for help. No one has come. It's dawn and no one has come. What can I do!"
A gentleman from Wucun Town, whose home name is Zheng Liang, told The Epoch Times, “The bridges for decades were broken, the crops were flooded, and the traffic was cut off.” As for whether there were casualties, it’s still unclear. Even if there are (casualties) in the rural areas, they will not be reported. Unlike Zhengzhou, where you obviously saw the corpse, here in the countryside, if you didn’t see the corpse anyway, it was not reported."
According to Zheng Liang, there are two reservoirs near Wucun Town. "The flooding of Jinshan must be caused by flood discharge. The people were not notified, just like the person in charge of the Zhengzhou subway this time, and did not say that they will stop operations, anyway, the people (the lives) are not taken seriously!" "And Xinxiang City There was a leak in the district, and someone was electrocuted."
A local netizen posted a video saying, "For the rescue team from outside Henan, please go directly to several villages around Yuhe Town, Huixian County. The disaster is serious. The water level in Dongxiyangou and Mujiaying has risen rapidly, and several villages are surrounded by flood discharge areas. , The villagers have nowhere to evacuate, and water and electricity have been cut off to request rescue. Someone is trapped in the water.
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The Hebi section of the Weihe River bursts with many car owners abandoning their cars to escape
On 23 July 2021 morning, the Hebi section of the Weihe River in Henan Province burst. Although many trucks were filled with stones and many large trucks were filled, it still did not help.
Personnel at the rescue site at Xiaoheweihe in Jun County, Hebi told the 21st Century Business Herald that “Xiaohe in Jun County now urgently needs to collect steel bars and weld them into steel cages to block the breach.”
The flood quickly flooded Hou Village and Sinan, and also quickly flooded the highway, scaring the car owners to abandon their cars and escape. A video showed that when people got out of the car and fled for their lives, the flood had already flooded people's waists.
[Original video]: "The car must be gone, it’s important to save your life. It’s all out, all out, all out, all out, hurry up. No more cars, no more cars, no more cars, no more cars, first It’s important to save your life, and it’s important to save your life. If you can drive, move forward quickly, move forward quickly, move forward, don’t need things, walk away, go first, go first, don’t want this. Find it now Nowhere, hurry up."
This man was quite sober. His urgent shouts and repeated appeals helped many people avoid the tragedy like the Zhengzhou Jingguang Road Tunnel. Perhaps they also heard about the Jingguang Road Tunnel, so they learned their lesson. Although the vehicle was damaged, there was no damage to the personnel after all. The situation of the Jingguang Road Tunnel will be discussed later.
The situation of the communist canal west of the Weihe River is also very critical, with flooded embankments already appearing. The multiple villages sandwiched between Weihe and the communist canal are even more dangerous. Once the communist canal breaks again, the villagers have no place to flee for their lives.
Local netizens continue to post online, requesting support from the outside world. Some netizens said, “Upstream inflow and waterlogging require flood discharge. Hebi has the most precipitation in the province and must be discharged. However, the news is blocked and farmers who are silently fighting floods can only witness the flooding and displacement of their villages in order to keep the county seat. My hometown is my hometown. Jun County of Hebi City urgently asks for help, and I implore everyone to help forward it.
"Look at our Hebi Jun County. The upstream must discharge floods, and the downstream of Jun County need to discharge floods. Many people have lost their homes, lost their beloved homes, and lost their fields. My hometown of Jun County urgently asks for help! New Town of Jun County Many nearby villages have fallen!
"The villages near Pengcun, Sinan, Houcun, Niucun, and Guanzhuang, Xinzheng, Hebijun County, have been flooded and cannot get out of the village. The villagers are all trapped. Ask for government support to transfer the victims! Some people are still at home. On the roof of the building, on the river embankment. There is no water supply, power outage, and no mobile phone signal. The water has reached Haocun and Xinbei to help spread it.
Some netizens said, "The situation is terrible. Many lives, villages and even cities may be gone."
The remains of the death tunnel appear, and the lost relatives are anxiously waiting
We next turned our attention to Zhengzhou. The Chinese Communist Party’s official Xinhua News Agency quoted a digital report from Henan Province’s emergency management hearing today (23) that the death toll in Zhengzhou has risen to 56.
But there has been a lot of information on social media looking for missing persons in Zhengzhou, including towns outside Zhengzhou. Among them is a website that lists the personal data of 130 lost contact, including the names, locations, photos and phone numbers of missing persons. This is more than double the death toll currently announced by the authorities.
At present, follow-up rescue is still in progress, especially the pumping of the Jingguang Road tunnel, which has attracted much attention. With the gradual drop of the water level, in this place called the "Death Tunnel", the staff have towed away a lot of cars and found many bodies one after another.
Some netizens disclosed that more than a dozen bodies have been found in the car that has been exposed to the surface of the water. It can also be seen in the video that some staff members carried out the corpses wrapped in white cloth and moved them outward one after another. It is not known whether these remains are in the authority's statistical list.
There is still a lot of standing water in the tunnel, and the water level is still high. I don’t know how many flooded cars are still in the tunnel, and how many remains will be found. This is very shocking and very worrying.
On 22 July night, although the police blocked the vicinity of the Jingguang Road tunnel exit, Zhengzhou citizens still watched from a distance. It is not only paying attention to the progress of the pumping, but also expressing angry protests at the same time. Among them, many are citizens looking for missing relatives, including the families of two 15-year-old boys Xu Yukun and Li Haoming.
Xu Yukun's mother, Ms. Ma, told the Beijing News that she was near the Beijing-Guangzhou tunnel. Li Haoming's mother Chen Fang said that she was waiting at home, but the child's uncle was near the Jingguang Road tunnel.
Ms. Ma, who had not slept for two days, introduced that her son’s classmates saw him enter the tunnel.
According to his son’s classmates, before the Jingguang Road tunnel was submerged that day, he saw Xu Yukun and Li Haoming riding into the tunnel on electric bicycles. One of them called his classmate at 4:42 pm and said that the electric bicycle was washed away in the tunnel. The phone was disconnected before the words were finished.
The other two boys arrived at the tunnel entrance at around 5 pm, when the water outside the tunnel had not reached the knees. Unable to enter the tunnel to check, they informed their parents that Xu Yukun and Li Haoming were trapped in the tunnel.
Xu Yukun’s aunt told The New York Times, “If (they) are in (the tunnel), there is no hope.”
Mr. Zhang, who was on the front line for disaster relief, told Caixin.com, “The Jingguang Road Tunnel was filled with cars during the flooding on Tuesday and Wednesday. The rescuers at the scene estimated that there were hundreds of cars inside. At present, it is necessary to put the tunnel inside. All of the stagnant water is drained, and it will take at least two to three days of uninterrupted work to complete."
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Serious collapse after the floods, many buildings in critical condition
In addition to the Jingguang Road Tunnel, other frontline rescuers said that road collapses have occurred in many places in Zhengzhou. The surrounding buildings have a high risk due to the collapse of the road, and many residents in the buildings are evacuating.
Caixin.com reported that there were 84 road collapse potholes of varying degrees in Zhongyuan District of Zhengzhou City alone. The report quoted the Central Plains District Municipal Conservation Center staff as saying that 80 to 90% of these collapsed potholes were caused by incorrect backfilling after the excavation of the previous entry project. When a heavy rain falls, the amount of groundwater is too large, causing soil erosion. "A void is formed below, and the top will sink."
Some netizens broke the news on Twitter today (23rd) that the road in front of the Great World of Communication on Longhai Road in Zhengzhou had collapsed, and the people in the building had been evacuated urgently. It can be seen in the picture that a huge pit appeared in front of the building, and several people were onlookers around it.
In the same video, the camera shifts to another place, showing that a deep hole also appears in the middle of the road, and a section of traffic barrier is suspended above it. Netizens said that "the underground is all empty."
Another netizen tweeted that two buildings in the Xicheng Garden on the West Third Ring Road of Hanghai Road began to tilt. The property of the community knocked on the door from door to door, telling people to evacuate to the open area. The video shows residents running in panic. The property also set up a temporary cordon nearby to remind people to pay attention to safety.
According to the mainland media "Top News", the Datong Hotel near Zhengzhou Railway Station is about to collapse. The people in the hotel have been evacuated, and the police and firefighters have pulled the cordon dozens of meters away. A staff member of the railway station area management committee said that there have been many landslides near the Datong Hotel.
A Mr. Wang who was on the scene for disaster relief told Deutsche Welle, “The collapse of Huayuan Road and Fengchan Road in Zhengzhou City has been reported. The entire building of the nearby Rand Center has been evacuated. Residents warned each other to avoid going out.”
Mr. Wang introduced that after the current secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee took office, he built flower beds in the middle of many major roads. However, during the construction process, many underground pipelines were cut off, so when heavy rainfall occurred, the road surface could not be drained.
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No water and no electricity, Zhengzhou goes back to 20 years ago
Although the floods in Zhengzhou are receding, the post-disaster impact is becoming more and more obvious. On 22 July we talked about secondary disasters. Many areas in Zhengzhou suffered from water and power cuts and no internet.
The non-fiction stories from the media and WeChat public account "Story Hardcore" describe Zhengzhou after the disaster, as if returning to 20 years ago overnight.
It is introduced in the article that because many people do not need cash in their lives, many people have become accustomed to not carrying cash. But after the disaster, it was discovered that it was no longer possible to use mobile phones to pay for things. And the bank was closed due to power outages and no cash was taken, so some people even went back to the primitive stage of "bartering things", such as using cigarettes for food.
Because there are no water and electricity grids, and online car-hailing services are no longer available. Truck drivers near Zhengzhou High-speed Railway East Station wanted to pick up passengers on the way, but they were not connected to the Internet and could not use maps.
The author himself checked in at a hotel and had booked a room on the travel website in advance. But the staff at the counter said that there was no electricity and no internet, and no reservations could be seen.
The article stated that before the restoration of power and the network, the slow restoration of the city order in Zhengzhou relied on the assistance of every ordinary person. It was the empathy and sense of responsibility that existed before the development of network technology.
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People from Zhengzhou cried out: Home is gone! Nothing!
The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC issued an interview with two Zhengzhou citizens today (23rd). One of them cried and complained that there is no more home and nothing.
[Original video] There is really no way to say, no, no more home. The store is gone, the home is gone, nothing is gone. There is no water to eat, and there is no electricity. It’s just fear and panic, it’s nothing to eat or drink, and then it’s impossible to contact the outside world. Our family members and relatives cannot contact us, so they must be very worried, and we are also very anxious. We were very nervous and could not sleep at all. Including in the middle of the night, as soon as I heard someone yelling, I immediately got up, fearing that there would be more serious (flood).
A farmer 15 km away from Zhengzhou, under the pseudonym Li Jin, told The Epoch Times that his Fengle Farm has nearly 200 tenants. Succulents have been planted on the farm for more than ten years, a great flood, all the hard work was soaked up.
Another villager named Liping said that the entire Fengle Farm was flooded and only the roof was visible. She said "the loss is too great" and "the rent for that (succulent base) is also quite high". After more than ten years of hard work, the rain and the flood discharge of the upstream reservoir for a few days finally left nothing.
However, the Chinese Communist Party's official media do not care about these. They only focus on publicizing rescue achievements and touching rescue stories. In addition, the heavy rains of "one in a thousand years" are being repeatedly emphasized, and there is no analysis and accountability of the cause of the disaster at all. Not only that, but the flood in Henan does not seem to have attracted the attention of the highest authorities of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Xi Jinping inspects Tibet. Doesn't he care about disasters?
On 23 July, Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi Jinping visited the scenic spots in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The report said that Xi Jinping visited Barkhor Street, Potala Palace Square and other places on the 22nd, and communicated with local people.
The report also stated that Xi Jinping also visited Nyingchi a day ago to inspect the ecological protection work in the upper Yarlung Zangbo basin.
The whole world knows that Henan is suffering from floods, which not only caused heavy casualties and economic losses, but also serious secondary disasters. Many people have no homes, and many have lost everything.
As the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party, at this time, in fact, the most important thing to do is to care about the suffering of the people and lead the deployment of disaster relief work but President Xi visited Tibet at this time.
In fact, visits and inspections are nice. In fact, what the CCP officials call rural investigations is to go outside to relax and have fun. Go to the local area to eat and drink, and take a look at the scenery accompanied by others.
As you all know, Xi Jinping made "important instructions" on the 20th, saying that Henan and other places "the flood control situation is very severe" and that disaster relief is required to "prevent a return to poverty due to disasters and a major epidemic after a major disaster." Isn’t it strange that I just turned around and went to Tibet after talking about disaster relief?
It is strange to say that it is not surprising, because when the Chinese Communist Party virus outbreak first broke out in Wuhan, the Beijing authorities also did a similar approach.
Friends who have been following "What to Watch" for a long time may remember that I mentioned one thing in the program on January 24, 2020. At that time, due to the epidemic, 15 cities in Hubei Province were blocked at once, and all 12 provinces and autonomous regions across the country responded with the highest level of first-level response.
The situation was very urgent at the time, and many people had already died. Some infected citizens knelt down to the medical staff for help, and some nurses were crying because they did not have medical resources, saying that they could not stand it anymore.
At this time, Xi Jinping, the seven giants of the Chinese Communist Party, held a "group visit" in Beijing, eating, drinking and having fun, watching singing and dancing all day. In Wuhan, someone fell down on the street and died at any time, but the CCP’s powerful people were singing and dancing to promote the Party.
In fact, the Beijing authorities had already known the situation in Wuhan at that time. Because when Xi Jinping met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 28 January, he personally stated that since the outbreak was discovered in early January, he was "directing and deploying himself."
So it is incomprehensible. If Beijing really cares about the floods in Henan and the lives and lives of the people, how can it be in the mood to go to Tibet at this time? Are you afraid that the floods in Henan will be too great, and you are afraid of flooding to Beijing and fled to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to avoid the water? Or is it saying that "flood prevention is severe", but it is actually playing down the floods and not caring about the lives and lives of the people at all?
News (10) to (20) / Host : Tang Jingyuan / Publisher : Foresight Quick Review / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/23/n13110904.htm
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A large number of traffic jams in the Beijing-Guangzhou tunnel were wiped out
When you open the map, you can see that the Jingguag Road Tunnel is part of the "Jingguang Expressway" that runs through the north-south traffic artery of Zhengzhou. It is located almost in the city centre of Zhengzhou.
This tunnel consists of two sections, called Jingguang South Road Tunnel and Jingguang North Road Tunnel. It is designed as a two-way 6-lane tunnel. The total length of the two tunnels is about 4.2 kilometers.
At about four or five o’clock in the afternoon on July 20, the sudden flood flooded into the tunnel with a high flow and a very fast velocity, and then flooded the entire tunnel in a very short period of time, and what was terrible was that at that time The entire tunnel was in a traffic jam, a large number of vehicles were unable to move at all, and they were completely destroyed before they even had time to react.
How short is this extremely short time? It is only about 5 minutes.
Please pay attention to friends. The two time concepts mentioned here and the three information points of the tunnel in a traffic jam are very important. This is not what I sat here and talked about based on hearsay news. These three information points are all The person who witnessed this incident recounted in an interview with regular media after the thrilling surviving.
As for why these three information points are important, we will discuss them in detail later.
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The chance of escape for people stuck in the tunnel is extremely slim
I believe that my friends may have seen a lot of videos taken afterwards near the tunnel entrance. The scenes of a large number of vehicles being rushed across and stacked on top of each other, like a car cemetery, can be said to be shocking. As for what kind of picture is in the tunnel, because the government implemented martial law early, ordinary citizens could not enter at all, so it is impossible to know.
When the flood water level was at its highest, the entire tunnel was already submerged, and even a trace of culvert space was invisible. This means that in this four thousand-meter-long tunnel, vehicle owners who are close to the entrance of the tunnel may have the opportunity to abandon the vehicle and escape, and the chance of escape for people blocked in the tunnel is extremely slim.
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How many cars how many people were "buried"
So this brings up the first question that everyone is very concerned about: how many cars and how many people are "buried" under the water in the tunnel?
Someone made a rough calculation: 4.2 km long tunnel, 6 lanes, it was in traffic jam at the time, so if you calculate 4 km, each car occupies an average of 5 meters, as many as 4,800 cars will be topped; if it is loose For one thing, at least three thousand vehicles are underwater based on an average of 8 m per vehicle.
In short, no matter what the calculation is, the number of this vehicle will not be small, and considering that many vehicles have more than one person, the number is at least around 4 digits.
In fact, even the mainland official media, such as The Paper, used the headline "Thousands of Vehicles Submerged" when they first reported on the Jingguang Road Tunnel incident.
Such a number and so many people, no matter from which point of view, may be unprecedented in the history of tunnel flood disasters in the world. Of course, because the Zhengzhou authorities have taken warning measures near the tunnel entrance, citizens cannot get close, and no one can know the real situation.
However, judging from the latest news from the Jingguang Road tunnel today, the situation inside the tunnel is not at all optimistic. One is that a large number of people waiting outside the tunnel had disputes or even physical clashes with the police last night. Many of them were family members who had lost contact with their relatives; the other was the official confirmation that the task of dredging the tunnel had been taken over by the army. For the 83rd Army "Yang Gensi Force".
At the same time, in the Hantang Hotel area near the tunnel entrance of Jingguang Road, some citizens took pictures of many closely-covered military vehicles appearing. Judging from this information, the truth about the Jingguang Road Tunnel will probably become a "state secret" of the CCP forever.
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The mystery of the closure of Jingguang Road Tunnel
The second doubt is the mystery of the closure of the Jingguang Road Tunnel.
We all know that when heavy rains come, traffic control should be implemented in low-lying areas to ensure safety. This is a basic common sense. According to Zhengzhou official media reports, the tunnel entrances at the north and south ends of Jingguang Road were closed at around 9 am on the 20th due to heavy water accumulation. At that time, reporters from Zhengzhou News and Broadcasting Station were still reporting on the spot.
However, the objective fact we later saw was that interviews with tunnel survivors revealed that the Jingguang Road tunnel was completely open at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon that day at the earliest, without any closure measures. If it wasn't for reporters from Zhengzhou News Station to report fake news, there would be only one explanation, that is, the tunnel that was originally closed was lifted sometime later.
We saw one of the latest survivors who said in the interview that he was blocked near the entrance of the Jingguang North Road tunnel at 3:45 pm on the 20th. At that time, there was almost no water in the tunnel and the ground was dry. This testimony shows that the highway department is fully aware of the accumulation of water in the tunnel. In the morning, because of the sealing measures for the accumulation of water, it may be lifted later because the accumulation of water is reduced or the situation is determined to be not serious.
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It is only 5 minutes from the time the water flows down to the top of all vehicles
According to the official media "China Youth Daily" interviews with survivors under the pseudonym Jiang Yong, at about the same time, there was already relatively deep water about 200 meters near the entrance of the Jingguang South Road tunnel, and a large number of vehicles were stuck in place.
According to this Jiang Yong, the current suddenly surged around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and some cars floated quickly. At that time, he decisively abandoned the car and fled. In only two or three minutes, the car was submerged and invisible.
Obviously, this is an extremely ferocious peak. According to an interview with a female survivor on a Weibo video account called "Mammoth News" on the mainland, it took about 5 minutes from the time the water flowed down to the top of all the vehicles.
There is a lot of controversy about this 5-minute filling of the entire tunnel, and many people think it is not credible. Based on the comprehensive information of all parties, it takes at least a few hours from the obvious water flow into the tunnel to finally filling the entire tunnel until it is level with the ground.
However, the accounts of many survivors all mentioned a key point together, that is, there was a particularly fierce and fast torrent around 5 pm, and the people and vehicles were covered in a few minutes. Only the car owners near the tunnel entrance and outside the tunnel. There is a chance to successfully abandon the car and escape. Therefore, this may be caused by the inconsistency of the parties' expressions.
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The subway lines also suddenly flooded. Where is the flood discharge?
If my friends still have an impression, they should remember that the Metro Line 5 incident we discussed in the last episode, and the survivors recalled that there was a sudden flood at about four or five o’clock, so much so. The subway drove out from Beach Temple Station forcibly, and the next stop, Shakou Road Station, was trapped in the middle by the rapid torrent. This critical time point is basically consistent with the Jingguang Road Tunnel.
This brings us back to the flood discharge problem we discussed. In fact, on the 20th, the flood-discharging reservoirs around Zhengzhou were not only the Changzhuang Reservoir, but many. We can now count from our own public reports that at least the Changzhuang Reservoir, Jiangang Reservoir, Suohe Retreat Sluice, and the Xinmi and Xingyang reservoirs close to Zhengzhou are all opening floodgates.
Moreover, the flood discharge of Xinmi and Xingyang is particularly large, exceeding the flood discharge of Changzhuang Reservoir by 7 times.
According to an official from the Henan Water Resources Department in an interview with mainland media, since the 20th, at least 47 reservoirs, large and small, are releasing floods in Henan.
Therefore, the direct causes of the two tragedies of Metro Line 5 and the Jingguang Road Tunnel were caused by flood peak transit attacks, which are closely related to the official unannounced flood discharge.
Why continue to operate during heavy rain and flood discharge?
Comparing these two tragedies, we can also see one thing in common, that is, Zhengzhou’s main traffic lines have continued to operate even when heavy rains continue and a large amount of floods have been released, without any suspension or road control measures being implemented.
This is also the third most suspicious point of the Zhengzhou tragedy. Why is this happening? This kind of violation of basic common sense has repeatedly appeared, and it involves different departments, and there must be its inherent administrative logic behind it.
What is this logic? As far as I personally check, I think the main source is probably Xu Liyi, secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee.
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Secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee: "Five Nos" for important traffic uninterrupted
Finally, Xu Liyi asked the party committees, governments and relevant departments at all levels to make flood prevention a top priority at present, and must ensure that "major water conservancy projects do not occur, no casualties caused by geological disasters, floods in small river basins, etc., occur, and important traffic is not interrupted. , The “five nos” goal of no water in the homes of urban residents and no long-term accumulation of water in local areas of the city.
Did you see it? At least for now, we can see that Zhengzhou is indeed implementing this "five no" goal in the process of responding to the storm.
"Ensure that major water conservancy projects are safe"
For example, the first "to ensure that major water conservancy projects do not go wrong" is tantamount to a sword used to relieve the flood of dozens of reservoirs after they exceed the warning level. Of course, the reservoir is in danger of dam breach and needs to be discharged. This is not a problem in itself. The problem is that no warning was issued to the downstream and citizens of Zhengzhou before the discharge. This is the main reason why a large number of people were killed and injured by the unexpected flood peak.
Why is there no warning for flood discharge? I was puzzled by this problem at one time. It was not until after the last show that many friends left messages and pointed out the doorway. It turned out that the logic of the CCP was this: if the government is notified to release the flood, the people may claim the government for property losses caused by this.
In order not to pay the money, the flood was released without warning. Whether a person died or a house was destroyed, it was regarded as a natural disaster, and the people had no reason to claim compensation. Then the government will come forward to pretend to be people and distribute instant noodles and mineral water. It can also earn people's gratitude for Dade to regard the party as a reborn parent.
Although we cannot find conclusive evidence to prove such unspoken rules, based on our consistent understanding of the CCP’s nature, I think this statement is very consistent with the CCP’s behavior. The CCP is such an organization. They even calculate and rectify each other's people in this way. What's more, facing the grassroots people who are crushed by their own power?
"Important traffic arteries are not interrupted"
Let's return to the topic just now. In Xu Liyi's "Five Nos" indicator, it is clearly required that "important traffic arteries should not be interrupted." This point is in full agreement with the subway’s performance of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and leaning toward the mountains", and the Jingguang Road tunnel was clearly closed, but the closure was subsequently lifted. Regardless of whether the subway or Jingguang Road runs through the north and south of Zhengzhou, it is undoubtedly the category of "traffic arteries" and must be guaranteed uninterrupted.
On the surface, Xu Liyi's "five no" indicators seem to be no problem. They require flood prevention work to ensure that the people's living order is not greatly affected. But we all know that in the process of dealing with natural disasters, any decree must be flexible and contingent, because no one knows what it will be like before the natural disaster really strikes.
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High-voltage lines of the Zhengzhou secretary
However, a major feature of the CCP system is its firm belief that "man will conquer the sky". This extreme system is touted by the CCP as the exclusive advantage of "concentrating power to do big things." But in fact, when the power is extremely controlled by one person, Xu Liyi's "five nos" indicators actually become in this system. The five high-voltage lines make the lower-level departments dare not make decisions based on local conditions and time, and can only implement them unconditionally.
As a result, the subway captain, knowing that the flood was flooding, continued to drive forward numbly; and when the so-called once-in-five-thousand-year rainstorm came, the 4-kilometer tunnel was unexpectedly uncontrolled, and it might not even have one. warning sign.
Haven’t subway staff members posted anonymously on the Internet? In fact, everyone knows about the flood situation, but no one wants to decide to stop the subway. The reason is that they don't want to take responsibility or offend others, especially the leaders. That's what everyone thinks.
This is very similar to the opening of floodgates in various reservoirs. Everyone is trying to keep my reservoir from accident. There is no big problem with some water. The result is a large artificial flood peak that sweeps the entire Zhengzhou city. Such man-made disasters are not only caused by the stupidity and rigidity of officials, but also by the nature of the whole system of "it doesn't matter if you die, as long as you have real power." This is the fundamental reason why we have seen similar disasters, which continue to take turns in various places in China, and repeat themselves.
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Xi Jinping inspects Tibet, the people screamed
Okay, finally let's briefly talk about Xi Jinping's inspection of Tibet. This incident made the whole Henan people scream.
Just today, Jinping, the official CCP internship, visited Tibet on July 21 and 22. Because there was no official word to disclose the relevant situation before, this was considered a secret visit.
Why did Xi Jinping not visit the disaster-stricken area and do a show for the people when he was mourned by the disaster in Henan and the whole country was shocked, but instead went to Tibet to inspect? There are various explanations for this reason.
Some say that Xi Jinping is to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the "peaceful liberation" of Tibet. But in fact, the date of signing the iconic "17-Article Agreement" between the CCP and the Tibetan local government in 1951 was May 23, which has long passed.
There are also claims that Xi Jinping believes that the roots are right and that he disdains the people-friendly show, or that Xi Jinping does not go to the disaster area to ensure safety, etc. It can be said that all have their own reasons.
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CCP does not want to endorse the Henan disasters
However, in my opinion, the main reason Xi Jinping does not go to the disaster area is that he does not want to endorse the Henan catastrophe, because this is related to the issue of the CCP's system advantages that he is desperately exaggerating internationally.
After the European floods broke out, especially after the German floods, the Chinese Communist Party was fully engaged in the battle of public opinion, taking Germany as a model to attack how the governance level of the democratic system failed, how inefficient, and so on. In this regard, I believe my friends are deeply impressed by CCTV's report of "Directing Europe as Zhengzhou" and Hu Xijin's "German floods are a governance issue, Zhengzhou floods are a weather issue".
At this time, Xi Jinping's inspection in Henan was tantamount to acknowledging that the disaster was so serious that he had to be alarmed to stabilize the situation. This was tantamount to acknowledging that the CCP's governance level was inadequate.
He will not go. In the official narrative of the Chinese Communist Party, no matter how big things are in Henan, it is nothing more than a local disaster. With such an excellent governance model as the CCP, the rainfall surpasses Germany's three times and can easily cope with fewer dead people than Germany. Of course, it is not worth distracting the top leader from his busy schedule. At most, it can be done with a simple instruction.
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Henan flood casualties and economic losses are covered up
We can fully imagine that under such a background, the number of casualties and economic losses caused by the Henan floods is very likely to be controlled at a level that can reflect the "superiority of the Chinese Communist Party's institutional governance." Xi Jinping pretends that he is free, and his purpose is not to give a knife to foreign forces.
This is the capital and bargaining chip that the CCP must compete for international discourse power, and it is also the so-called "positive energy" that the five cents pink talks about. These bargaining chips are artificially created illusions. Behind each illusion, there are countless grievances behind them. In the eyes of the CCP, these life costs are just part of the "power" gathered for the need to "do great things." .
From this perspective, the so-called In fact, there is only one advantage, which is the advantage of being able to squander people's lives at will without being held responsible. This is indeed something that any normal country or government cannot have.
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