Zhengzhou citizens experienced torrential rains: men walked + swam home, and girls spent the night on the hotel sofa

Jimu news reporter Yao Yun Zhang Wanjun

Intern Duan Linshan

Video clip Kim Young

Since July 17, heavy rainfall has occurred in many parts of Henan, and there have been exceptionally heavy rainstorms in Zhengzhou and other places. At 16:00 on the 20th, the Zhengzhou Flood Control and Drought Control Headquarters upgraded the flood control emergency response to Level I. The China Meteorological Observatory released the news that the maximum hourly rainfall of extreme heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou was 201.9 mm.

The heavy rain caused the Zhengzhou train to stop, the road area was seriously watery, and many people were trapped. On the morning of the 21st, the Jimu News reporter contacted a number of witnesses, who told the situation on the night of the rainstorm.

Men walk + swim 9 km home

Ms. Chen, a citizen of Zhengzhou, lives in the Jinghuacheng Community in Zhongyuan District. On the morning of July 20, she walked her children to a kindergarten not far from home and saw that although it was raining and winding, there was no water on the road. It rained all day that day, and at 5 p.m. Ms. Chen went out to pick up her children and found that the water on the road was knee-deep, and the road had almost become a river. Ms. Chen waded all the way to the kindergarten, and then carried the child back to the house, and found that the vehicles in the underground garage of the community were parked on the road surface of the community, because there was water in the underground garage. Fortunately, there has been no water and electricity outage in her community, and she and her children have been staying at home since then, afraid to go out. "My hometown is in Zaoyang, Hubei Province, and I experienced the flood in 1998, and the situation at that time was not as scary as this time." Ms. Chen said.

At 5 p.m. on July 20, Mr. Tang of Zhengzhou City drove from the e-commerce industrial park back to his home near the West Fourth Ring Road after work. Not far from driving on the road, he found that the water in the road area had reached a depth of about 50 centimeters, and the vehicle could not pass normally. In desperation, Mr. Tang drove the vehicle back to the company and decided to walk home. About 9 kilometers from the company to home, Mr. Tang waded all the way to the water. When he walked near the main gate of Zhengzhou University, he found that the water had reached his brow, and the deepest point was about 2 meters. As he passes through deep waters, he swims through them. Fortunately, the deep water area is only a few meters away, and Mr. Tang has swam smoothly. At about 10 o'clock that night, Mr. Tang finally arrived home safely.

Five kilometers of road walked for two hours

Boss Ma of Zhengzhou's Jinshui District opened a food store on Weier Road. At about 4 p.m. on the 20th, the rain gradually increased, the store suddenly stopped power, and the nearby community staff informed the merchants to immediately close the store and evacuate. "At that time, there was already water in the store, but fortunately the water was not deep." Boss Ma said that at about 5 p.m., he closed the shop and went home.

"The electric car was already soaked, so I had to roll up my pants legs and wade back into the water." Boss Ma said that the water on the road was waist-deep and the water flow was fast, so he had to find a wooden stick and grope along the side of the road to go home. "It was still raining, and every step I took was very difficult and I couldn't walk at all."

Boss Ma told jimu news reporters that on the way home, the situation under the water was complicated, and he also saw several citizens falling in the water, so he reached over with a wooden stick with him and pulled it. His home is only 5 kilometers away from the shop, usually only 20 minutes by bicycle, yesterday walked nearly two hours to get home. He has lived in Zhengzhou for many years and has never seen such a scene, "There has been water accumulation before, but it is certainly not so serious." ”

At about 10:00 a.m. on the 21st, Mr. Ma said that at present, there is water and electricity in the family, and the family's situation is stable.

Passengers stay at the train station for more than ten hours

"I've never seen anything like this before." Mr. Ren, who was trapped at the Zhengzhou railway station, told Jimu reporters. He arrived in Zhengzhou with his lover and children from Wuhan at about 1 a.m. on the 20th, preparing to change to a general express train at Zhengzhou Station to Sanmenxia City, but the train was delayed for 8 hours due to heavy rain. Mr. Ren saw that the situation was not good, so he refunded the ticket and re-bought the high-speed rail ticket, but at about 6 p.m. on the 20th, the Zhengzhou Railway Station was all suspended, the entrance to the station was closed, and the high-speed rail could not go.

Mr. Ren said that it was raining heavily at that time, "It was raining heavily outside, and it was raining lightly inside the train station." "Their family and many passengers were trapped in the waiting hall, and there was a leak in the roof of the station, and the water gradually accumulated in the station. Mr. Ren said that several stores in the station were quickly snapped up, and "there was nothing left." Inside the station, he saw that the water outside was waist-deep, and there was a hotel not far away, but they really couldn't get out, very helpless.

That evening, Mr. Ren and his family took off their shoes, pulled their pants legs to their thighs, found a closed shop in the train station, and slept in a few chairs for the night, eating instant noodles in cold pure water.

"It's fine now." Mr. Ren said that on the morning of the 21st, the staff of the railway station came early to clean the accumulated water, and there was also backup electricity in the station, and they were waiting for further notice from the station.

The 15-year-old girl spends the night on a hotel couch

At about 1:00 a.m. on July 21, a search notice was released on the Douyin platform, which aroused the attention of netizens. The information shows that a 15-year-old girl surnamed Li, who lives in Huiji District of Zhengzhou, lost contact with her family at about 6 p.m. on the 20th. She was taking the subway home. She got off at East Avenue Station because of the water on the subway, and after a phone call with her family, she could no longer be contacted, and her family was very worried about her safety. On the morning of the 21st, the Jimu news reporter contacted the girl's father, Mr. Li. Mr. Li said that just half an hour ago he received a call from his daughter, learned that she was safe and sound, and was asking relatives to drive to pick her up. Mr. Li introduced that at about 6 p.m. on the 20th, after her daughter got off the subway at East Avenue Station, she found that the water around the subway was serious and she could not go home. Because her phone was dead, she couldn't get in touch with her family. Later, the girl and two classmates spent the night on a sofa in the lobby of a nearby hotel.

"We were really worried about being scared all night, and we called the police for help, but unfortunately the police couldn't contact her." Mr. Li said the rainstorm was the biggest he had ever seen in his life, and the place where he lived was so badly flooded that he and his family were trapped at home.

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