Massive flood in China, 2021

[JanM]

11 hours ago, Beregond said:

not really loh.

china got flood every year,  but now suddenly got thousand year flood.

america got wild fire every year, this 2 years getting worst.

i think if we born 50 years late, we will face the real backlash of gobal warming.

Mankind has been keeping rainfall record for a thousand years ?

[Kxbc]

1 hour ago, Mustank said:

Yes

if i there I will break glass at end of train to get out Liao 

if the flood water rises, I will be stuck in the train and mati

 

I've never seen those small break glass hammers in our MRT trains. Or maybe I did not pay sufficient attention. I think our buses have those small pointed hammers.

[inlinesix]

14 minutes ago, Kxbc said:

I've never seen those small break glass hammers in our MRT trains. Or maybe I did not pay sufficient attention. I think our buses have those small pointed hammers.

There was 1 on the train together with the warning on the misuse of it.

I didn't see it recently.

[Wt_know]

4 hours ago, inlinesix said:

Even Bkt Batok got landslide last week.

more like water gushing down and not landslide per say

 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Wt_know

[Estrangable]

is this the work of the evil yankees and the decadent West who will stop at nothing to impede zhu guo march to greatness? 

CIA, FBI, DEA, MI6?? 

 

[Thaiyotakamli]

14 hours ago, Nolicense said:

if this happens in sgp.... unimaginable... but possible

Alot of our mrt is underground. So its quite scary

[Thaiyotakamli]

2 hours ago, Mustank said:

Yes

if i there I will break glass at end of train to get out Liao 

if the flood water rises, I will be stuck in the train and mati

 

Maybe water level higher outside carriage? 

[inlinesix]

20 minutes ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

Alot of our mrt is underground. So its quite scary

Most of our MRT has sufficient water barriers barring freak weather.

I wonder why the weather forecast did not issue a warning.  That will stop any MRT service.

[Thaiyotakamli]

19 minutes ago, inlinesix said:

Most of our MRT has sufficient water barriers barring freak weather.

I wonder why the weather forecast did not issue a warning.  That will stop any MRT service.

If i remember correctly the zhengzhou case water broke in because one of the mrt station exit collapsed resulting huge flash flood and thats why many cant escape

[1fast1]

3 hours ago, Atonchia said:

Control weather?

Can be done.... 

Must wait till mankind reach Type 1 Civilisation level 1st.

Probably a few more generations. 

We only have Dyson fan lah, Dyson vacuum lah. 

No sphere yet. 😁

[Mkl22]

looks like the problem is too much build up and not enough time for the ground to soak up the water.

[Lala81]

Some people are just FOS.

What is a devastating flood in China's history? Let's go back 90 years ago.

In the grand scheme of things, flooding in china is greatly reduced over the last 30-40 years. That's just drowned people. The numbers of people who died subsqeuently is sometimes considered to be the 2-3 + million range.

 

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The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, were a series of floods that occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, which eventually culminated into a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931.

Fatality estimates vary widely. A field survey by the University of Nanking led by John Lossing Buck immediately after the flood found "150,000 people had drowned, and that this number represented less than a quarter of all fatalities during the first 100 days of the flood."[2] The official report found 140,000 drowned[3] and claims that "2 million people died during the flood, having drowned or died from lack of food"

 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Lala81

[Volvobrick]

2 hours ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

Maybe water level higher outside carriage? 

In some videos, it was much higher outside (and fast flowing). Break grass immediately all drown! 

[inlinesix]

Major flooding in China over past 5 years.

[Volvobrick]

Really cannot fight China. Everything is big and humongous. Here we say once in 50 years storm they say once in 5000 years! 

Pei fu! 

[Atonchia]

5 hours ago, Mustank said:

Need a lot of energy to become type 1

Think Physicist put current state as Type 0😅

[Atonchia]

1 hour ago, happy_man said:

Chinese met dept captured the rain pattern in the last few days hours of downpour.

That "1000 year" is based on the unusual (extreme?) heavy precipitation and the mountainous region of Henan magnify the flooding problem, esp in the urban areas. The water subsided as quickly as it came.

24 Hours Rain Pattern around Zhengzhou city of 10 million (Capital of Henan province)

Looks like turning on a huge tap for water to flow.... 

Or using a huge funnel and pour the water. 

[Atonchia]

4 hours ago, JanM said:

Mankind has been keeping rainfall record for a thousand years ?

Chinese has been records of floods, burst banks, extent of geographic damage and span of flood etc for last 2 millennium, 

They probably just measure rainfall in mm in the last century.