A building in downtown Wuhan was damaged in the afternoon of May 10. (Photo by WeChat)
On May 10, Wuhan city suddenly turned from day to night, with lightning and thunder in the sky, and a stormy sky that brought down trees and damaged many buildings. The crane basket went out of control and hit a tall building during the gale, resulting in the death of two workers.
According to the Wuhan Emergency Management Bureau, on May 10, Wuhan suffered a local thunderstorm gale of 10. At 13:30 that afternoon, Hubei High Art Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd. two workers, the curtain wall project on Sanyang Road for cleaning operations, 14:30 high winds suddenly rose, the basket was blown up swing, hit the building curtain wall.
14:50, rescue workers will be fixed basket, two workers were rescued and sent to the hospital, and died after resuscitation. The person in charge of the project has been controlled. Wuhan Emergency Management Bureau in conjunction with relevant departments are working on the aftermath.
The video shows that the two workers were trapped in the basket, the wind blew the basket up high in the air, repeatedly hitting the building’s exterior wall, which looked extremely scary, so you can imagine how frightened and desperate the two workers were in the basket.
According to land media reports, on the afternoon of the 10th, Wuhan, Hubei Province and other places suddenly hit by violent storms. Meteorological monitoring showed that the maximum rain intensity in the city reached 99.6 mm in one hour, exceeding the highest “black rainstorm” standard of the Hong Kong Observatory, and strong convection monitoring showed that Wuhan was quickly engulfed by lightning symbols in the afternoon.
From 2 p.m., Wuhan ushered in heavy rain, thunder and lightning, 14-level gusts of wind, breaking historical records. Many parts of the city opened “sea” mode, many building roofs, windows were destroyed by the wind, the waiting hall of the train station has become a “water curtain”.
Not only Wuhan, this storm, before the afternoon of May 9 to the evening, Guizhou and Fujian suffered thunderstorms, wind and hail and other intense weather attacks. Monitoring data showed that squall lines in Guizhou led to strong gusts of 33.4 m/s at the Qianxi National Station with a level 12 wind.
Photos taken by netizens showed that hail even appeared in Guiyang that night, and the size of the hail was bigger than an egg. Such hail and high winds have a certain destructive power, some netizens said, hitting the windows with a special thud, which may have a more serious impact on the agricultural and forestry production in Guizhou region.
Land media said that the heavy rain in Wuhan is just the beginning. Next, with the further intensification of the vice high and the warm and humid airflow, the thunderstorm belt will head east to south, mainly in Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the next few days.
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