Be a real person, just doing this, you have already surpassed most people in this era.....
Speak out what you see, speak out whatever you see. Just doing this, most people in this era cannot do it. Of course, most people can only see, but cannot think.
Since July 24th, "Du Sui Rui" has strengthened from a strong typhoon to a super typhoon. Beijing has experienced continuous rainfall for more than five days, and it was not until August 2nd that it truly encountered a yellow rainstorm warning. According to the available information, the average precipitation in Beijing exceeded 277 millimeters on July 29th. The maximum precipitation in the urban area exceeded 780 millimeters, and the most terrifying thing is that Qianlingshan in Fengtai District had an hourly precipitation of over 120 millimeters.
My colleague lives in Mentougou, which is known as a "sponge city" demonstration area. However, faced with this rainfall, Mentougou was completely defeated.
Instead of effectively absorbing, infiltrating, and slowly releasing rainwater, and controlling the flow of rainwater, the sponge city was completely destroyed by this rain.
Wherever the flash floods went, the embankments on both sides were washed away, and the asphalt-paved roads were torn apart like pieces of paper by the flood. The river channels were filled with debris, wires, and building materials.
Houses on both sides of the river were almost completely destroyed, leaving behind ruins. One house had a wall damaged, and you could see someone cooking inside from the outside. A bedsheet wetted by the flood was still hanging on an electric wire. The flash floods destroyed houses and disrupted people's lives.
Zhuozhou in Hebei Province also faces the threat brought by the flood. On the morning of July 31st, a town in Zhuozhou received a notice to evacuate due to flood discharge. Most of the town's residents were transferred to a safe place. However, some towns were not notified of the evacuation.
On July 30th and 31st, many reservoirs in Beijing chose to discharge floodwater, but the discharge occurred in the middle of the night. People downstream were engulfed by the flood while they were asleep.
According to the limited information I found, many places in Zhuozhou were affected by the disaster, and most of them did not receive the notification of flood discharge and evacuation from Beijing. The flood came fiercely, and the water level instantly reached over 2 meters. Lower houses were directly submerged by the flood. Villagers could only take refuge in high-rise buildings.
There was a video showing that a village in Zhuozhou was trapped with 5,000 people, but currently, this video cannot be found on the internet platform. I don't know why it cannot be found.
When facing natural disasters, we always face the trolley problem. In the trolley problem, 90% of people choose to sacrifice one person to save five people. In China, it has always been the minority obeying the majority, and personal interests are always lower than collective interests. But I think these are all prerequisites. In front of any public affairs, the interests of the majority are indeed worth maintaining, but whether sacrificing personal interests can obtain corresponding collective interests, in other words, what is the proportion of my personal interests in the collective interests, and whether it is worth sacrificing myself for the collective.
It is obvious that the flood discharge does not conform to the above statement. Floods are ruthless, and everyone is gambling with their own lives. The collective life is life, and the individual life is also life. The life of the old man in Beijing and the life of the old farmer in Zhuozhou are both lives. Without notification, privately digging embankments and discharging floodwater in the middle of the night is sacrificing lives.