Heavy Rains In China Have Brought Damage To Many People And Predicts More Rainfall.
Key Sentence:The city recorded 201.9 mm of rainfall between 4 pm and 5 pm on Tuesday, the highest hourly record for mainland China.In Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, at least 25 people died, including 12 on a flooded subway train, after heavy rains in the area.Photos also video
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- The city recorded 201.9 mm of rainfall between 4 pm and 5 pm on Tuesday, the highest hourly record for mainland China.
In Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, at least 25 people died, including 12 on a flooded subway train, after heavy rains in the area.
Photos also videos uploaded on social media showed passengers trapped in deep flooding in darkness on trains on a subway line in Zhengzhou, a city of about 12 million people. More than 500 people were evacuated from the subway late Tuesday. In total, about 200,000 people had to be relocated to the city due to heavy rains.
State-of-the-art emergency alerts are issued across the province.
President Xi Jinping on Wednesday directed authorities to use the PLA to rescue those stranded in flooded subways, hotels, and public places. The PLA has dispatched 3,000 employees to assist local authorities with flood control and evacuation efforts.
As the scale of the disaster worsened, and damage ran into tens of millions of dollars, China's military said it had prevented the collapse of the damaged Yihetan Dam about an hour from Zhengzhou.
On Wednesday morning, the People's Liberation Army announced that the dam had been blown up and troops "successfully opened a new drainage hole for flooding," the AFP news agency reported.
"From 8:00 pm on July 17 to 8:00 pm. On Tuesday [July 20], Zhengzhou's total rainfall was 617.1 mm, close to the city's average annual rainfall of 640.8 mm, according to the city's meteorological office.".
The city recorded 201.9 mm of rainfall between 4 pm and 5 pm on Tuesday, the highest hourly record for mainland China. The city broke its record for one day rain, hitting the highest level since the Zhengzhou weather station was built in 1951, the Xinhua report said.
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