Seeing the hotel staff in the yard pushing the car parked in the yard to a high place to prevent being flooded, Xie Zhi saw that there was insufficient staff below and asked the entourage to go downstairs to help.

Xie Zhi and her entourage went downstairs and saw that the water in the yard was overwhelming her knees and was about to flood the steps in front of the hall. If the heavy rain kept rising by another seven or eight centimeters, the water would flood into the building.

In the hotel, we have long realized this problem. Two staff members pushed out a small cart, filled with sandbags, and piled sandbags around the high platform in front of the foyer to prevent the water from rising and falling into the building.

The entourage braved the rain to help push the cart. In the blink of an eye, the rainwater was poured thoroughly, and the clothes were wet against her body. With such heavy rain, Xie Zhi couldn't help even if she rushed into the yard. She stood under the eaves of the door and asked the raindrops to hit her arms. She felt pain. She thought that she was used to living in tropical areas and rarely saw such heavy rains, and for more than an hour, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing a woman next to her, like a hotel manager, Xie Zhi asked her, "How come Yishan is so flooded?" In her impression, the altitude of Yishan County is nearly 200 meters higher than the plains outside the mountain, and no matter how heavy the rain is, it will not flood the Yishan County Government Hospitality Hotel.

"The old city is a basin, surrounded by mountains, but it is very low in the middle. But the northwest corner of our city is the lowest in the city, which is the mouth of the crucian carp from the Dongyu River. The riverbed is more than two or three meters higher than here. It rained so heavily for more than an hour. The rain on the hillsides on all sides flowed here. It would be strange if we were not flooded here." The hotel manager seemed to have gained experience of flooding. Seeing the water flooded the yard, he was not so nervous. He knew that Xie Zhi was an important guest in the county and directed the staff to pile up sandbags, and did not forget to explain her doubts.

Xie Zhi recalled that before entering Yushan County, the car had indeed driven a gentle slope. Unexpectedly, it was the hurdle that blocked the rainwater in the old city of Yushan and could not be released in time.

The Yushan County Government Hospitality Hotel is located in the northwest corner of the old city and is not large in scale. The main building where Xie Zhi and his entourage live is only four floors high, but the blue brick, black tiles, lacquered wood railings are built very distinctively, consistent with the style of the ancient city, clean and tidy, and many tourists live in it.

Looking at the movement in the yard, many tourists also came down to watch the excitement or enthusiastic help. Xie Zhi listened to these people's discussions. It was too early for Yushan County to launch emergency measures. Yesterday morning, tourists stranded out of the wild began to return. Many tourists retreated from the mountains and lived in hotels in the old city.

Seeing that the car was ready, Xie Zhi saw that the car was pushed to a high place, so she went back to the room and went on the phone with Hongqi. Hearing the sound of rain outside the window, he seemed to be a little less, so she washed up and went to bed.

In a daze, listening to a lot of movement in the yard, Xie Zhi sat up and reached out to turn on and press the switch of the bedside lamp. After several "slap" times, the bedside lamp did not react at all.

Looking at the darkness outside the window, Xie Zhi didn't know what happened, so she actually told the hotel that the power was cut off. She took advantage of the glimmer of light from her mobile phone screen and put on her clothes in the dark. As soon as she opened the door, she saw the hotel manager who was talking downstairs walking towards the other end of the aisle with a flashlight:

"Mr. Xie, are you not asleep yet? The county power supply bureau temporarily notified that all the flooded areas in the northern area were powered off. We didn't expect the water to be so large. The water on the ground floor was flooded with a table, and the spare diesel engine in the basement was also soaked in water. It is impossible to turn on now. For the time being, we can only use a flashlight and candle to make do with it. I'm so sorry..."

There are also some residences, holding mobile phones and BB machines that can shine in various places, and protruding them into the aisle to see what happened: the power suddenly turned off, which still makes people feel a little uneasy.

Xie Zhi took the flashlight handed over by the hotel manager, walked to the room, and looked into the yard outside the window. She pushed it to a high place before, and half of the car with bricks under the wheels had been flooded. Now she didn't care about the car, and seeing that the courtyard wall was almost half submerged, Xie Zhi realized that the situation was more serious than she thought.

Moreover, the raindrops were like soybeans, smashing down all over the sky and making crackling sounds.

Due to the power outage, it was pitch black outside, which made people see something in the county town.

The hotel staff distributed candles to the guests next to the room, and some guests also asked why the county had cut off power at this critical moment. The staff also patiently explained that there had been electric shock accidents in some places. In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, the county temporarily decided to completely cut off power in the flooded area, and the power supply would be restored after the water recedes; the hotel also received a temporary notice.

Listening to the movement downstairs, Xie Zhi realized that the guests on the first floor had been forced to retreat to the second floor. Due to the shortage of empty rooms, the hotel staff were coordinating and hoped that the guests could share as much as possible.

Xie Zhi asked the entourage and the driver to merge them into two rooms, and then asked the female assistant who accompanied them to move to her room and gave up four rooms to the residents who were evacuated from the ground floor.

After the power was cut off, the landline was affected and could not call. Xie Zhi took out her cell phone. The signal was very weak. She tried to dial several calls, but she couldn't do it. I don't know if the signal base station was affected in the heavy rain.

I was cut off from the outside world, and the rain outside did not diminish at all, so everyone was trapped in the hotel. Fortunately, there were too many people and there was no panic and I couldn't sleep. Many people simply put on candles to play poker.

The rain outside was heavy and light, but the water in the yard did not retreat at all, and it continued to rise inch by inch.

At dawn, the heavy rain finally stopped, and the sky was bright. Seeing that the clouds were much thinner and no longer covered with dark clouds, the courtyard walls of the hotel had been flooded with water. When you go down the stairs, you can see that less than half a meter of space on the first floor was not flooded.

At this time, I looked out from the window and saw that there was a vast ocean of water within my sight.

The old city, especially the northern area, are mainly old bungalows. At this time, a large area of ​​low flat-story houses were directly submerged in the water, with only the black roof exposed to the water.

And the few buildings with a height of six or seven floors are like isolated islands, towering in the water; the entire county seems to have become a big lake.

From the canopy that floats out of the water, the direction of the street can be roughly identified, and the water surface divided by the roof and the lonely building, in addition to furniture and other debris, there are also many corpses of dogs, cats and livestock, which look extra shocking.

Xie Zhi was a little stunned. Before nightfall last night, she never expected that Yushan would be flooded so seriously.

But the light is still very dark now, and standing in front of the window, you can't see too far. The terrain of Yushan County is high and low. The hotel manager said that this is the northwest corner of the county town, which should be the lowest place in the city. Xie Zhi didn't know the degree of flooding in other parts of Yushan County.

The landline and mobile phones are not connected. Now it seems that they have temporarily lost contact with the outside world. They are completely unclear about the degree of flooding in other parts of Yushan County, and they are not sure how much impact the heavy rain that lasted overnight yesterday had on Donghua City.

Everyone was trapped in an isolated building, and even the buildings in front and behind the hotel could only be contacted by shouting. Only at eight o'clock did the guests remember to carry the radio with them and take them out to listen to the radio.

The county only knows that nearly half of the area of ​​Yushan County has been flooded by waterlogging, and the disasters in the townships scattered in the mountains may be more serious, but there is no way to accurately estimate it for a while. Several mountains along the Yupu Highway that came out of the mountain collapsed due to heavy rainstorms and sealed the roads entering the mountains; and the mudslides carried a large amount of mudstone wrapped in Dongyu Creek, causing certain silt and affecting the accumulation of waterlogging and excretion.

In addition to Yushan, the disaster situation in Xiapu, Jiangyan, Xinjin and other counties was also not light; the water levels of Meixi River, Yuxi River and other counties all skyrocketed overnight.

The kitchen on the ground floor of the hotel was flooded and the electricity was cut off. Everyone could only use bread or chew instant noodles to satisfy their hunger.

Some residents were worried that the foundation of the hotel building could not withstand the big bubbles, and they were somewhat panicked. At this time, except for the hotel staff, no government staff appeared to rescue the disaster. Some people also developed a lot of dissatisfaction, and they all scolded these officials for only knowing how to scrape them, but at this time they didn't care about their lives or death.

Xie Zhi had no way to contact Xiao Haomin, Feng Yumei and others from Yushan County, but she knew that she was good at the hotel. The key was that so many bungalow residents were flooded with water, and they didn't know whether these residents had evacuated in time.

It was about ten o'clock that a assault boat came over. Two armed policemen among the three people moved a few boxes of supplies into the building and found Xie Zhi through the hotel manager. The middle-aged man in charge was a Liu officer from the county party committee and told her: "Secretary Song can't contact you, so he called the county, and Secretary Liang asked me to come over and pick you up to the county."

The assault boat was very small and could not evacuate Xie Zhi and her entourage, let alone evacuate nearly 200 staff and residents in the four buildings of the hotel.

Among the entourage staff, Xie Zhi could only ask the company's vice president to go to the county with her first; when she got on the boat, she heard someone swearing behind her, and she didn't respond.

After getting on the boat and asking Officer Liu, Xie Zhi learned more about the details of the disaster.

Since the water rises inch by inch, the evacuation work in the old city with low terrain has been organized before heavy rain; therefore, residents in the flooded bungalow area were evacuated in time.

In comparison, although the county government hospitality hotel is under construction on a low terrain, it is somewhat considered a "high-rise building", so it was ignored in the emergency relief last night and in the morning.

Except for one person who was unfortunately electrocuted in the county town, no more casualties have occurred yet. The disaster situation in the towns below is even worse. The garrisons who entered the mountain yesterday either went up the river embankment to rescue, went to the Yushan Lake Dam, or hiked to the most severely affected towns. County leaders like Xiao Haomin and Feng Yumei all went to the townships separately last night. In comparison, the county town's disaster relief forces were not the strongest.

Although the county had made some preparations in advance, it did not consider that such a heavy rain would last for eight or nine hours.

Such a serious flood disaster has not been encountered once in a few decades, and all aspects are somewhat caught off guard.

The only good news is that the river embankments along the coast have withstood the test and there is no extremely dangerous situation like dam collapse. The Yushan Lake Reservoir opened the gate in advance and released the water for a day in the heavy rain last night. It was dragged until the heavy rain stopped this morning before opening the gate again to release the pressure of the reservoir capacity.

Also, because the gates of the Yushan Lake Reservoir were opened, and the downstream river section blocked a large amount of mud and stone silt from the mud flow. Even if there is no rainfall in the next two days, it will be difficult for the flooding of Yushan County to recede.

Xiapu County has sent engineering teams to repair the Yupu Highway; Xiapu County’s current more urgent task is to prevent mudslides from continuing to silt in the middle of Dongyu Creek to form a dangerous landslide lake.

In that case, it will pose a greater threat to the downstream areas.
Chapter completed!