Source: CCTV
From 6 a.m. on September 4 to 9 a.m. on September 6, heavy rain fell in Ziyang County, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, and the cumulative rainfall of 23 monitoring stations in the county exceeded 100, of which 15 stations exceeded 200 mm, and the largest cumulative rainfall in Gaoqiao Town was 284.6 mm.
According to incomplete statistics, as of 15:00 on September 5, this round of heavy rainfall caused 21,598 people in Ziyang County to be affected, 6,140 people to be relocated and evacuated from danger, large-scale damage to crops, and serious damage to infrastructure such as roads, houses, farmland and water conservancy. Among them, the loss of rural roads is relatively large, and 953 county, township and village roads in Ziyang are damaged, and many road traffic is interrupted.
Heavy rains caused damage to many roads in Ziyang County (Photo provided by Ziyang County Rong Media Center)
According to Jiao Rui, deputy director of the Ziyang County Rural Highway Administration Bureau, "Heavy rainfall caused large-scale landslides, mudslides, highway slope collapses, roadbed damage and other natural disasters in ziyang, and we promptly launched the emergency plan for flood prevention and rescue of rural roads in ziyang, in accordance with the principle of 'first through and then smooth', put in construction machinery and manpower for emergency repair to ensure that the basic passage of vehicles can be met." At present, more than 20 sets of machinery and equipment have been mobilized, and four working groups have been divided into four working groups to go to the front line to carry out emergency repairs. ”
Heavy rains caused damage to the Road in Ankang Ziyang (Courtesy of Ziyang County Rong Media Center)
According to the statistics of the Ziyang County Emergency Management Bureau, from August 20 to September 5 at 15:00, the county's cumulative disaster population of 56,588 people, emergency shelter transfer population of 5,915 people, emergency transfer and resettlement of 7,625 people, crop disaster area of 594.59 hectares, housing collapse 41 households 80 rooms, houses seriously damaged 53 households 137 rooms, general damage to 150 households 389 rooms, according to incomplete statistics, resulting in direct economic losses of 518.9399 million yuan.