In July 10th, 8 to 11 days, 18, Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County heavy rain, 23 villages and towns nearly 300 millimeters of rainfall, more than 8 million people were affected, emergency evacuation and temporary transfer of disaster and threatened people 1473 people, no casualties.
The old village of Chen Jiaba Town, north of Beichuan, was threatened by a flood in the early morning of 11. 580 people were evacuating and resetting in the rain. In addition to the early warning of local cadres and the field command, there were two large excavators.
In the early morning of July 11th, the river flooded the river embankment and poured into the settlement of the residents in the north of the bridge in the early morning of July 11th. It was two excavators that moved the old and weak women and children from the deep water of the breast.
Before that, the two excavators dredged the river with heavy rain and cleaned up the sand and gravel from the upstream rainwater to slow down the speed of breaking the river.
The old village is located on both sides of the Cherry Valley river. The length of the Cherry Valley river is only 7 kilometers, but the upper reaches of the upper reaches are more than 1000 meters. In the rainy season each year, the sand and gravel in the upper reaches of the rainstorm are silted in the gentle river of the old village, causing the river to diffuse out of the dikes and dams, threatening the safety of the 4 groups in the old village. After the early warning of rainstorms in early July, the old village organized two dredgers to dredge the river, and 20 thousand cubic meters of gravel were cleared in a week.
At 11:30 on July 10th at 11:30 in the evening, after a heavy rain early-warning of the night, the old village organized two excavators to reach the river, which was their A plan - to try to clean the river in time by the sand and gravel washed with the rainstorm.
But the rain is getting bigger and bigger, and the speed of excavator cleaning up is not up to the speed of sand and gravel deposition. At about 3 o'clock on the morning of 11, the sand and gravel under the bridge had been stacked up to the height of the bridge deck, and the river was dangerous to overflow the dam.
Before this, the old village also started the B plan for emergency plans - through Party member and cadre notification, 580 people from both sides of the river were mobilized to the two floor of the buildings.
Around 11 a.m. around 4 a.m., the rising Cherry Valley river burst into the river and flooded the settlements on both sides of the river. According to the village branch, Yang Qiyun recalls that the village was interrupted by communication and electricity, and more than 30 cars parked at the residential area were washed away, and the river was close to the breast of the adult male.
Around 6 o'clock, when the sky was bright, local cadres began to guide the evacuation of the masses. Every 3 adults moved hand in hand and water to the nearest settlement, while the old and weak women and children were transferred upstairs by two excavators. By the 12 point, 580 people were transferred to two settlements.
