For the past three days, the internet is displayinghorrifying videos and pictures of the flood which occurred in China. The mostterrific video till now has shown the over flooding inside a metro line at theZhengzhou city, which the population of over 1.2 crore citizens, who arewaiting for rescue.
According to the sources 25 people, 12 subway passengers,have been killed due to the flooding till now, in 1000 years it is the firsttime that the central province of China, Henan province has experienced such alarge amount of rainfall. It is reported that the province has experienced617.1 mm rainfall from Saturday to Tuesday, nearly the same amount in the city.
More rain is expected for the next three days and thepresident has deployed 5700 People’s Liberation Army soldiers to the province,which is 650 km southwest of Beijing, for rescue and search. On Wednesday, itwas reported that the rainfall has made the situation of flooding worseand which has to lead to the rise in the level of rivers and damaged the dams.Railway sections are suspended and flights are canceled.
In Luoyang city, people are scared that the 20-meter longbridge can collapse anytime due to the situation, but till now no such reportof dam failure is reported. The president has ordered to bring up flood reliefforces and has mentioned the requirement to decrease causalities, keeping inmind hygiene and disease prevention.
The cause behind the heavy flooding is the coming up ofthe Typhoon In-Fa. The typhoon is accompanied by air currents, which havecarried atmospheric water, concentrating at the Zheng.
Zhou city, which is surroundedby Funiu and Taihang mountains. However, weather change is unpredictable, therisk of waterlogging at the surface increases. Last year, flooding had caused$25 billion and 200 people dead, causing damage.
It is harder to control floods because the Yellow Riverin Zhengzhou city is the second largest river in China. Man-made dams andreservoirs are created in the country to migrate flooding, but these dams arenot able to hold on to water because of such a huge amount of rainfall.
A climate analyst for Greenpeace East Asia, Li Shou saidthat it is an alarm bell for China indicating the rise in climate change.Another expert, Benjamin Horton, the director of earth Observatory ofSingapore reported that due to the increase in global warming the atmosphereof Earth hold more moisture resulting in heavier downpours.