China: Worst flood in Zhengzhou history
 

blimey:shocked:

ive never been more thankful to live at the top of a hill

Zhengzhou saw 624mm of rainfall Sat to Tuesday, with a third of that amount falling between 16:00 and 17:00 alone, which "smashed historical records".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57861067

annual rainfall is 640mm

That will change when the hill falls down :joker:

China Japan Germany whose next?
Climate change?

weather has always been unpredictable, but it does seem to be more severe than i ever remember it being

hands Sherriff a pick axe

…I can’t imagine what it would feel to have your entire home destroyed through floods or fire and just be helpless …devastating…

Yes Very Fast Water
kills more, sadly.

Sadly 33 have died
fast water like that washes the old
away.

China now building 100 New Coal Plants
Essential Power needed.

Yeah, I used to think "My street is at decent elevation in this village" until I saw all the bloody landslips... now I expect to just wake up one morning sliding off down the hill.

But more seriously - there's a lot of "new housing" in the village that was - absolutely stupidly - build on farmland that was already prone to flooding and when they were building "older" locals tried to stop it, saying that in the past those fields used to basically turn into a lake every 5 years or so.

Lo and behold - 20 years down the line - they have huge drainage issues on those streets, and if we get any significant flooding here they're ****ed.

yup

would be quite boring if we only had such predictable weather



tbh there should be more investments made into preventing these floods from happening again


maybe we should somehow go for a flood research team, same how we have one of those teams for tornado's etc

fearmongering title :idc: