The Jingguang Tunnel is one of the areas most affected by the heavy rain in Zhengzhou, and the rescue team is currently pumping water from the tunnel, but there is still a lot of water in the tunnel. According to Xinhua News Agency, the Zhengzhou Jingguang Road Tunnel has confirmed that some people have been killed, and the specific number is still being verified.
The Jingguang Road Tunnel is 4.3 kilometers long and consists of the Jingguang North Road Tunnel, the Jingguang Middle Road Tunnel and the Jingguang South Road Tunnel. There is a viaduct above the tunnel, a north-south two-way tunnel below, and Zhengzhou Station nearby, with dense traffic. During the heavy rainstorm on July 20, this "artery" connecting Zhengzhou's main transportation hubs was flooded by heavy rain. When the rain flooded into the tunnel, there was a traffic jam near the tunnel.
Recently, a video circulating on the Internet shows that at about 17:00 on July 20, at the critical moment when a large amount of rainwater poured into the Tunnel of Jingguang North Road to form a serious waterlogging, a man slapped the window of the vehicle blocked in the tunnel one by one, constantly persuading the flooded owner to evacuate, "The car is not needed, it is important to save your life!" ”
"Hurry down", "Hurry down", "Hurry down", the man's urging can be heard in the video. Just about ten minutes after the drivers heeded the man's call to abandon the vehicle and take emergency shelter at a high place, the Jingguang North Road tunnel was flooded. Someone commented after watching the video, "He really saved dozens of families."
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Hou Wenchao knocked on the car window at the mouth of the tunnel on Jingguang North Road, allowing people to escape with him. (Click to watch the video)
The man in the video, named Hou Wenchao, experienced the "7.21 Beijing Heavy Rain" nine years ago, and when he saw the rain flooding the wheels of the car in front of him, he resolutely abandoned the car and shouted loudly and knocked on the window of the car to let people escape with him.
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter found Hou Wenchao, who slapped the car window and shouted, and he recalled to the reporter that he was terrified for half an hour on that day.
Suddenly, the water didn't pass 2/3 of the wheel
At about 16:00 on July 20, Hou Wenchao encountered traffic jams while driving from north to south to the uphill exit of longhai road of the Jingguang North Road tunnel. At that time, the rain was torrential, and in the traffic jam for more than an hour, Hou Wenchao's car only moved forward a few meters.
Hou Wenchao remembers that at the beginning of the traffic jam, it was only raining heavily, and the road surface did not have deep water.
The location in the picture is the place where Hou Wenchao was in distress on July 20.
At 17:40, Hou Wenchao answered a call from a classmate, and the phone call lasted no more than 5 minutes. After hanging up the phone, Hou Wenchao, who was sitting in the car, suddenly found that the water on the road surface had not exceeded two-thirds of the tires of the car in front of him, and "suddenly the water rose."
Hou Wenchao, a "post-70s" from Zhoukou City, Henan Province, has lived in Zhengzhou for eight or nine years and is engaged in the business of building materials waterproofing. He worked hard in Beijing and experienced the "7.21 Beijing Rainstorm", "I experienced the flood in Beijing on July 21, 2012, and I remember watching the news at that time that some citizens had time to escape in the car and did not come out, which later caused suffocation." With this lesson learned, I know that in this case, I can't continue to be in the car, there is going to be an accident. ”
"If the water rises again, the door won't be pushed open." Hou Wenchao realized that the water might soon flood up, and it was very dangerous to continue to stay in the car. Hou Wenchao got out of the car with his mobile phone, wallet and an umbrella, and when he pushed the car door, he saw that the water had entered through the car door.
"Walk around, don't linger!"
After getting out of the car, Hou Wenchao began to run and shout, slapping the car window to remind the owner of the car to abandon the car and escape, "I will shout at them and let everyone evacuate." ”
Hou Wenchao's car position was behind, he first reminded the owner of the car behind him to get out of the car, and then shouted from behind and forward to ensure that everyone was shouted.
"Hurry down and hurry down", "Don't want a car", "It's important to save your life", "Walk around, don't stay nostalgic", Hou Wenchao shouted in his throat, the time was urgent, he didn't have time to say too much, he could only change different persuasion methods and emphasize danger.
Hearing Hou Wenchao's prompts, some drivers got out of the car, and some people still insisted on staying in the car. For car owners who did not want to get off the car, Hou Wenchao could not take care of too much, and began to violently slap the car window and door, shouting loudly, "You don't know that in the heavy rain in Beijing in 2012, many people were stuffy in the car!" ”
"Some people are nostalgic for cars or belongings and are reluctant to get out of the car, or they don't know the harm, and they don't know that people may not be able to come out after the water comes up."
There were two women in a new car, the older woman insisted on not getting out of the car, Hou Wenchao and the younger female driver dragged the big lady hard to get out of the car, "she may not realize the seriousness of the problem, feel that the child's new car is not easy." ”
Another taxi driver also insisted on not getting out of the car, "The car is also a new car, this is his means of making a living, when everyone withdraws, he is not willing to withdraw." Hou Wenchao slapped the car window while using the example of the 721 Beijing rainstorm, "I have experienced things in Beijing, and the water will flood the car door for a while." Come out, don't come out and die. Under the persuasion of Hou Wenchao, the taxi driver also got off.
Hou Wenchao did not have time to count how many cars he knocked on the windows of the car, "I knocked on each car for a relatively short time, so many cars waiting for me to notify." ”
After getting out of the car, everyone walked uphill, moved west from the shallow water, and climbed over the guardrail to reach a high place. "The young man can turn over the guardrail, the children, the women and the elderly can't turn over, we have a bunch of people over there to help, and a lot of people have contributed."
At 18:10, Hou Wenchao finally came to a relatively safe position, and when he looked at the exit of the tunnel again, the Jingguang North Road tunnel had been submerged, and his car could not be seen. "After I called everyone out, (the tunnel) was full in 10 minutes. Without shouting out, all of them were flooded, but fortunately basically no one was doing anything. ”
On the way home on the evening of July 20, Hou Wenchao sent a circle of friends, "The voice is broken, I think it is worth it."
When Hou Wenchao braved the rain and waded back to his home on North Huayuan Road, it was already 2 a.m. the next day. At this time he began to have a cold and fever, which took more than a day to get better. The water in the Jingguang Road tunnel is being stepped up, and Hou Wenchao's vehicles have been cleared away.
On July 22, Hou Wenchao posted a video of getting out of the car and knocking on the window that day into the group of classmates. "At that time, I just took the video to give myself a record, and then my classmates asked me to show you the video how dangerous the rainstorm was that day."
Hou Wenchao did not know how the videos spread into the public eye through the dissemination of those videos, and for his unexpected popularity, he constantly emphasized in the interview that what he did was just a show of hands. But Hou Wenchao also said that he hopes that through his actions, he hopes to let everyone establish a stronger sense of safety when danger comes. "I want to let everyone know this kind of life-saving knowledge through your media, and in case of repeated floods, they can add one more life-saving skill, and they can also save others when it is convenient."
"Shouting brother" Hou Wenchao. Courtesy of respondents
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zai Fei Text Editor: Zai Fei
Source: Author: Wang Qian