Guangdong Sounds Alarm of FloodsNon-stop downpours are deluging Guangdong the last few days, pushing the province's floods to a high precarious level. Waterlogging and mountain floods struck, already keeping pupils away from class in some areas like Shenzhen. Weather forecast says the entire province will keep on with heavy rainfall and there will seem no cloudy days to lift.Starting from 1:00 on the morning of June 7, Shenzhen had a downpour lasting some ten hours. Storms battled Guangzhou City, chalking up an 87mm record of rainfall in Dongshan District in less than ten hours. Rainfall has exceeded 100mm according to concerned sources in 26 cities and counties in Guangdong. Of these, a most severe situation is in Haifeng County, reporting a rainfall of 323mm, some 30 percent over the corresponding period last year. Worse still, big inundation broke out. Several highways in and out of Haifeng have been under water. Meanwhile, 13 flights taking off from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport have been suspended; and cars have to be led by light slowly and carefully ahead even at noontime. Sources say that casualties have occurred and that mountain floods have brought calamities to some dozen hundred of people. Currently, many rivers in Guangdong are keeping on with rising floodwater and in some these have even been pushed up to an alarming level. By PD Online Staff Yin Zhili |
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