Chapter 778: Chapter 528: Racking One’s Brain
The shipyard was repairing ships, while the banks were nding roads and reinforcing the embanknt.
This year’s 11th typhoon disaster in August caused enormous losses to the coastal provinces.
According to incomplete statistics, during the 11th typhoon, Zhehai Province reported 169 deaths by drowning, 776 kiloters of damaged embanknts, 13,894 breaches in the embanknt, 830,000 mu of farmland flooded by seawater, 11.41 million people affected by the disaster, and around 2.27 million residents trapped by floodwaters and sea, with direct economic losses of about 19.3 billion yuan!
Jianfu Province, located south of the 11th typhoon’s landfall point, had most of its coastal areas within the typhoon’s radius, with local tide levels generally exceeding the warning levels. The fierce tide and violent wind and waves damaged 29 seawalls, resulting in 25 breaches, flooding 350,000 mu of farmland with seawater, and causing direct economic losses of about 2 billion yuan!
In Jiangnan Province, under the joint attack of strong winds, torrential rains, and tidal waves, the economic losses were also very severe.
Nearly all coastal and inland river monitoring stations were above the warning levels, with significant damage to the Jianghai embanknts. A total of 28,000 collapsed houses, 10 dead, 10 missing, and over 200,000 people trapped by water at one point, with 120,000 urgently evacuated, and direct economic losses of about 3 billion yuan!
Typhoon 11 passed west of the East Sea, and although it did not cause any major ergencies, on the evening of August 18, the water level of the Huangpu River broke the historical record of 5.22 ters, reaching 5.72 ters, and Wusong Station reached 5.99 ters, an event that happens once in 300 years.
Over a dozen kiloters of exterior seawalls in East Sea City were damaged and more than 10 kiloters of river embanknts were overflowed, resulting in 7 deaths and economic losses of about 600 million yuan.
Dongshan, Beihai, and other coastal provinces also suffered varying degrees of economic loss.
Better late than never to nd the fold after the sheep are gone.
Linghai suffered heavy losses this year, and we cannot afford such a calamity again. With the support of both provincial and municipal governnts, laborers from all towns and villages are required to repair the Jianghai embanknts during this period. The residents who live farthest from the riverbank have to ride a bicycle for more than an hour to co here to "pick and shovel" (dig and carry soil).
Many residents live too far from ho, making it inconvenient to commute to and from work. The leading cadres at the township and village levels communicate and coordinate with responsible persons from various riverside townships. They either bunk on the floor in nearby schools or live in village offices by the river. So people who work in river engineering even stay in the hos of people living under the embanknts.
They not only have to bring their own shovels, carrying poles, spiked harrows, and baskets for road and embanknt repairs, but they also have to bring their own rice, pickles, and oil, fully as "volunteer work
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