Experience after waterlogging in Shaoyang, Hunan Province： The ancient city wall is intact and the people’s living order is gradually restored.
The staff cleaned up the silt and debris. Photo by Wang Haohao
Zhongxin. com Shaoyang July 10th Title: Experience after waterlogging in Shaoyang, Hunan Province: The thousand-year-old city wall is intact and the people’s living order is gradually restored.
Author Wang Haohao Mo Fan
Early in the morning on the 10th, Li Jiancheng and his staff came to the musical instrument store to clean up the wooden floor damaged by the flood on the first floor. On the first floor of a 60-square-meter musical instrument store, there are all kinds of rubbish washed by the flood. Although it has been washed several times, the muddy smell in the house has not dispersed, and the water stain line left on the wall by the flood is 1.2 meters high.
Monitor ships and survey water conditions. Photo by Wang Haohao
Since the 6th, Shaoyang, Hunan Province has experienced the strongest rainfall since the flood season. At 21: 00 on the 9th, the flood peak water level of 218.55 meters appeared in Shaoyang urban reach, which once exceeded the warning water level of 4.55 meters. According to preliminary statistics, 387,600 people in Shaoyang were affected by this flood, 31,929 people were transferred, 306 houses collapsed, 462 houses were seriously damaged, the affected area of crops was 10,685 hectares, and the direct economic loss was 796 million yuan.
Shops built along the Zijiang River were completely submerged. Photo by Wang Haohao
Li Jiancheng’s musical instrument store is on the pedestrian street of Zijiang South Road, Daxiang District, Shaoyang. According to Liang Wujun, general branch secretary and detachment leader of Shaoyang City Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment, the pedestrian street is built along the south bank of Zijiang River, located in the center of Shaoyang, with a length of about 1.5 kilometers and about 90 stores along the line, which is one of the main leisure places for Shaoyang citizens.
Li Jiancheng’s musical instrument store was flooded and all the wooden floors were damaged. Photo by Wang Haohao
When the reporter rushed to the pedestrian street on the morning of the 10 th, he saw that the flood here had gradually receded and the Shaoyang City Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment had begun dredging; Shops along the street are affected to varying degrees, and merchants are spontaneously cleaning up garbage.
The ancient city wall of Baoqingfu was not damaged. Photo by Wang Haohao
Li Jiancheng’s musical instrument store has been in business for more than three years, with a total of three floors. At 2 o’clock in the morning on the 9th, Li Jiancheng received a reminder from his peers and rushed to the music store. He moved all the items on the first floor, such as guitars and African drums, to the second floor, but the piano was too heavy to move away.
At 9 o’clock on the 9th, when Li Jiancheng rushed to the music store again, the flood had flooded into the music store. "Most merchants in the pedestrian street experienced the super flood in 2017, and they all prepared for the flood in advance. The government departments also issued early warning information in time. Fortunately, the losses were not too great."
The ancient city wall of Baoqingfu with a history of more than 2,000 years and the North Gate Pier of Shaoyang are located in the middle of the pedestrian street. The ancient city wall of Baoqingfu has two gates, namely Qingfengmen (North Gate) and Linjinmen, and a wall section of 1,300 meters in the north. It is one of the well-preserved city walls in Hunan Province and was upgraded to the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2013.
The reporter saw at the scene that the water stain line left by the flood on the city wall was clearly visible, about 1.2 meters high; The floods around the city wall have all receded, and the wall of the city wall and the pier at the north entrance of Shaoyang have not been damaged. There are still wooden doors, billboards, plastic bags and other kinds of garbage floating on the surface of Zijiang River in front of the city wall. Several shops on the south bank of Zijiang River were all flooded because of the coastal construction.
Merchants spontaneously desilting. Photo by Wang Haohao
"The dredging and cleaning work started at 2 am today. At present, more than 10 sprinklers, muck trucks and forklifts have been dispatched, and 67 urban management personnel and sanitation workers have been mobilized. Tonight, the pedestrian street will be fully restored." Liang Wujun said.
At present, the production and living order in Shaoyang city has gradually recovered. On the evening of the 10th, Shaoyang citizens danced square dance on the cleaned pedestrian street. (End)
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