Some people are busy repairing damaged houses, some are taking pictures to dock with insurance companies; some have turned into a effigy on the hearse, some regret not taking care of their loved ones; some dodged a bullet on the night of the hurricane, while others perished in the iron gate that fell down the next day ……
The citizens of Nantong, Jiangsu province, had a different mood during the May Day holiday just past. on the night of April 30, a rare thunderstorm with strong convective winds and hailstorms hit here, causing more than a dozen deaths, more than a hundred injuries and thousands of people affected.
Extreme news reporters came to Nantong to visit the disaster site, witness self-help and mutual help, and also record the stories of the deceased.
The night runner who fell under the fence
At 8:00 p.m. on April 30, the night market on Zhengxiang Snack Street in downtown Rugao, Nantong was bustling and noisy, with music playing in nearby shopping malls, vendors playing advertisements on loudspeakers, and the sound of people and traffic incessantly.
Rugao City Zhengxiang Snack Street
When Xiulan came home from work, but from the streets seen every day, I felt something different: the trees on both sides of the road were blown to the east and west by the wind, the air was filled with dust, foam, plastic bags and other garbage. “The wind blew so hard that I couldn’t open my eyes.”
When Xiulan took pictures of the situation on the street, he sent them to his sister by WeChat, so that she could beware. At that time, the phone showed that the time was 8:00 and 8:00 pm.
After sending WeChat, Shi Xiulan rushed to call her parents in her hometown of Dingyan town, urging them not to go out. Then, she rushed back home.
Almost at the same time, Rugao City, West Development Zone, near a construction site, the public Chen Yong was a collapsed fence engulfed.
That night, Chen Yong, who lives in Rugao City’s West Residence neighborhood, went out for a run as usual. According to nearby residents, Chen Yong was walking on the sidewalk across the road from the Development Zone Experimental Primary School, the north side of the sidewalk is a construction site, the sidewalk and the site is isolated from each other by a wall.
As the wind gets stronger, the wall made of bricks suddenly collapsed to the side of the road, Chen Yong fell in the bricks. Nearby residents said that Chen Yong’s family could not contact him after looking for the middle of the night, until May 1 to check the monitoring only to find that he was hit by bricks and crushed underneath, picking out when he had unfortunately died.
On the night of May 4, the reporter came to the site of the incident, found that this is a real estate site, near the parking excavator, the site is not staff construction. Under the dim streetlights, there are few pedestrians.
Chen Yong night run killed road has been closed
This road connects Rugao City Fengdeng Road and the city’s northern residence district, less than 400 meters long. Road north of the overturned bricks are still visible, the sidewalk has been cleaned up and closed, along the roadside trees pulled up a long waterproof color striped cloth.
Neighborhood residents said Chen Yong 46 years old, do some small business, daughter in Nanjing to go to college, May Day holiday was not intended to go home, learned the sad news that the child rushed back.
Chen Yong’s home is less than a kilometer from the incident site of the city’s northern residence district. 9:50 p.m. on May 4, the reporter saw that most of the nearby residents have turned off the lights, Chen Yong’s home is lit up, the door with a wreath, someone burning paper.
Local people said, according to local customs, after the death of a person’s family will be its wake for three to seven days ranging. During the wake, friends and relatives come over to remember the deceased.
The family of Chen Yong told the Extreme News reporter that the local government has given proper resettlement after the incident, which is a natural disaster, I just hope my loved ones rest in peace soon.
Rugao city wall collapsed
Nantong Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department official microblogging service released news at 10:12 on May 1, as of that day, the affected population of more than 3,000 people, including 11 people died due to the fallen trees smashed down houses, gale winds involved in the river; 102 people were injured due to the disaster.
Died from the aftermath of the windstorm
On May 2, Nantong University Hospital, the extreme eye news reporter met with a number of people injured in the gale.
Nantong Rudong County, Changsha Town, Beikan Village, Bai Summit is more than 50 years old, doing a small business of frying and selling melon seeds. “The night of the gale I was fine, I did not expect the next day the accident.” White peak said, May 1 at 3 a.m., he drove out as usual to buy goods, suddenly felt a large tree on the roadside is about to fall, he hurriedly stepped on the emergency brake. The fallen tree still hit the front hood of his vehicle, his chest hit the steering wheel, six fractured ribs.
White Summit’s wife, Wang Lianzhen, recalled that before the gale, they heard the village loudspeaker broadcast about the gale warning and also saw the information on the Internet. “No one would have thought the wind would be so destructive.” Wang Lianzhen said.
After White Summit was transferred from a local hospital to a downtown hospital, Wang Lianzhen helped take care of his clinical friend, a 26-year-old boy from Jiangxi, in addition to taking care of him.
The guy is a crew member, the night of April 30 because of high winds in the ship injured. It took some time for the guy’s family to get to Nantong, and the guy’s colleague asked Wang Lianzhen to take care of him when he left the hospital. “I just fed him liquid food, wiped his swollen eyes with wet paper towels, did what I could, and the nurses took special care of him.” Wang Lianzhen said.
Lv Yi, who lives in Lvbin Village, Lvsiangang Town, Qidong City, told the Extreme News reporter that her sister, who is in her 60s, escaped the gale on April 30, but not the aftermath caused by the windstorm.
“The night of the gale, we were all hiding in our respective homes.” Lv Yi said that at about 5 a.m. on May 1, his sister and brother-in-law found that the large iron door of the yard was blown askew by the wind, but did not fall completely. The couple tried to put the door right, but the door fell straight down and hit their sister’s head.
The door was built less than five years ago, made of pig iron and very heavy, Lv Yi told the Extreme News.
After undergoing open surgery, Lv Yi’s sister was transferred from the local hospital to the Nantong University Hospital to continue treatment, but eventually passed away.
Unseen high winds
The main disasters caused by high winds in the urban areas of Nantong were fallen trees and collapsed fences, while in rural areas they caused damage to houses.
Fan Yi is Rugao City, the village of Shenqiao belongs to the town of white bushes. the night of April 30, he took his wife and children in a relative’s house to eat wine, suddenly received a call from neighbors that the roof tiles were blown away by the wind. When he rushed home and saw that the roof left a large hole, the attached house roof color steel tile was also broken.
Not far from Fan Yi home of a family, not only house damage, color steel tile shed was also blown to pieces, there are some farmers of chicken sheds were also blown apart by the wind.
A river with Shenqiao village is Caidang village, village cadres told the news reporter, the village has more than 150 families houses have different degrees of damage.
Mr. Liu, a villager from Caidang village, recorded the scene of the wind on the night of April 30 with a monitor. At that time, his car was parked in the yard, saw the wind he wanted to move the car to the garage, walked to the yard found no car keys, at this time people have been unstable.
Mr. Liu returned to the house to get the keys, found that no longer can open the door, the wind raging outside the door, dusty sky, “eyes can not open.” He said.
Afterwards, Mr. Liu saw through the monitoring records, the maximum wind is April 30 at 8:21 p.m., strong winds lasted about 10 minutes.
The villagers of Caidang village repair houses used tiles
Rudong County and Rugao City borders, the situation is also more serious. Among them, Rudong County Dayu Town Dingjiadian village bore the brunt.
According to statistics, in Dingjiadian village, 51 villagers’ houses collapsed as a whole, hundreds of households were severely damaged, more than 1500 households were generally damaged, and one person was killed. A number of villagers recalled that some people hid by the cupboard and some hid under the bed when the gale came.
On May 4, the reporter of the Extreme News saw the blown billboards everywhere on the road leading to Dingjiadian village from the town. In Dingjiadian village, many roof tiles were overturned and patches of fruit and vegetable sheds were blown down, but the damaged utility poles and communication towers have been basically repaired.
Ding Jiadian village 53-year-old Ding Guofu and 13-year-old son, the night of the gale is a steel plate activity room rest. Father and son began to lock the door, the wind is getting stronger, rolled up stones, tiles. Aware of the danger, the two quickly ran to a neighbor’s house a few dozen meters away.
“We lived in a movable slab house for four years, and a few seconds after escaping the house was blown away by the wind and disappeared. My father, 88 years old, said he had never seen such strong winds.” Ding Guofu said that when the wind came, the air was filled with the sound of an engine-like “whine” and the sound of bricks hitting the wall. After the wind passed, the sound of ambulances began to ring.
Misfortune in the old house
Wang Qing, a villager in group 3 of Dingjiadian village, has the most traumatic memories of the storm. Her 89-year-old mother, who had lived in the family’s old house for more than 30 years, was eventually killed when the house collapsed.
Wang Qing said it was a one-story bungalow, which her older brother spent 280 yuan to have built in 1985 and painted the walls himself. Although her mother was old, she was able to take care of herself, but she had some deafness and the habit of burning incense every day.
Wang Qing went to his mother’s house once a day, and at 5 p.m. on April 30, when the weather cleared, he came to his mother’s house to deliver the drying rod, and his neighbor came over, and the two of them talked with her for more than an hour.
“By 6 o’clock, seeing that it was going to change, I went home.” Wang Qing said that shortly after she returned home and washed up and went to bed, the wind suddenly gusted. About 20 minutes later, the wind stopped, Wang Qing and his elder brother came to his mother’s house and found that the house had collapsed. The village cadres brought in an excavator, and nearby villagers helped pick apart the bricks by hand and found her mother lying dying in bed.
Wang Qing said the police car then sent his mother to the hospital in town, the road distance of less than ten kilometers, but many places to see the blown down trees and poles. Soon after her mother was taken to the hospital, she passed away.
“When the wind started I had a feeling that my mother’s house would fall.” Wang Qing regretted that the electricity was out, the phone could not be called, and the wind was so strong that people could not go out.
On May 4, it was raining. The polar news reporter saw that Wang Qing’s mother’s old house had become ruins, the beams, cross-hanging and a large tree had fallen into the bricks, appliances, beds, chairs were also buried. The old man has been buried, the village cadres sent a wreath.
Dingjiadian village a village cadres, the night of April 30, the affected people have been placed in the old people’s home. Another village cadres said that they had repeatedly persuaded to leave the old people who were guarding the old house, but they were either more stubborn or had a fluke mentality and did not believe that a rare gale would occur.
“The weather was fine during the day that day, and I had no idea that there would be a gale.” Wang Qing’s older brother said.
The ignored warning message
In fact, the polar news reporter found that the Rugao City Weather Station 2021 April 30 at 9:58 a.m. had issued a blue warning signal for high winds saying that gusts of 8 or more were expected that afternoon and into the night, so please take precautions.
Shi Xiulan recalled that during the day on April 30, she had received a wind warning SMS sent by the community property. But cell phone text messages have long been occupied by spam ads, while such warning information previously received, the day did not care too much, did not think there would be such a violent gale.
A number of residents in Rugao city said that the day did not pay attention to the relevant information. A number of villagers in Dingjiadian village who experienced the gale said, “It happened too suddenly, not psychologically prepared.”
Nantong is China’s famous longevity capital, a number of elderly people told the extreme news reporter, they have never seen such a violent wind like this year, it is no wonder that many people will blow the wind called “demon wind”.
The news of “Nantong Release” on May 1 said that from 18:00 to 22:00 on April 30, hailstorms and strong thunderstorms and windy weather occurred in some areas of the city, and there were 66 automatic stations in the city with maximum winds of more than 10, including 45.4m/s (14 strong winds) in Tongzhou Bay Sanyou Group and 39.0m/s in Haimen Baofang Town. 39.0m/s.
Nantong meteorological department released information that the main reason for the widespread thunderstorms and high winds is the “influence of the northeast cold vortex”.
Hubei Provincial Bureau of Meteorology Climate Center experts Zhou Yuehua said that the northeast cold vortex is generally active in northeast China from May to June, it is controlled by the regional air layer is on the cold and warm configuration, so it may cause the instability of the air layer and produce strong convective weather. The cold air southward process, Nantong and other areas of Jiangsu Province may be affected by the special terrain, location, or environment to produce this strong convective weather.
Zhou Yuehua said that due to the small spatial and temporal scale of strong convective weather, similar to the specific location and time of thunderstorm gale, hail and other strong convective weather occurrence, it is difficult to accurately forecast a long time in advance.
Masonry in demand
Calm was restored after the hustle and bustle, relief work continued in Nantong, the city’s production and living order has gradually returned to normal, and all distribution lines resumed power delivery. The local hospital has launched an emergency rescue mechanism and deployed medical and nursing staff to make every effort to treat the injured. The insurance department launched a catastrophe plan to speed up the process of investigation and damage determination to implement claims in the shortest possible time.
On May 4, the reporter saw a number of villagers busy repairing their own houses in Dingjia Dian Village, Dayu Town, Rudong County. The village cadres told the news reporter that their main job is to help villagers build houses, collect relevant site photos, dock with the insurance company for unified claims, and timely release of funds.
When the time Xiulan said, she Dingyan town of the old house damage has not had time to repair, this period of time masonry is very beautiful.
The company’s main goal is to provide a better solution to the problem.
Many people will be seen at the time shot into a short video to share on the network, someone suffered property damage, someone almost and the kiss of death. One of them, Rugao City, a citizen to work together to lift a “I am proud, I am civilized Rugao people” sign photo, broke the local people’s circle of friends.
Fan Yi of Shenqiao Village in Baipu Town started repairing his house after he returned home on May 1, spending 1,000 yuan to buy the same type of tile from a neighboring town. He also went to the town to buy food and wine, invited the village three masons to repair the roof of the main house.
Caidang villagers Yuan Li and her husband wanted to take advantage of the May Day holiday to repair the house, but because they did not hire a mason, they had no choice but to go back to work in Haimen first.
Many villagers helped Kan Lao Han repair his roof
Kan Lao Han, a poor family in Caidang village, was given preferential treatment. On the afternoon of May 3, eight or nine people from the village helped him repair the roof of his bungalow. The village cadres said that Kan was alone and the group was worried about him, so they gathered to help him repair his house first.
Although Kan Lao Han is over 70 years old, but still climb up the ladder to the roof, and villagers work together. The roof placed a porcelain pot with herbal tea, next to a porcelain bowl, someone thirsty, with a porcelain bowl to scoop a bowl of tea to drink.
In the early summer afternoon, the sun was spilling over the roof. The windstorm left a mark that still needs time to repair.
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