China Flood - Hubei and Sichuan Provinces - 2020

The preliminary damage caused to China by one of the worst floods in the history of the country is estimated at 12 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the rains that caused it do not subside, and the catastrophic scale of the disaster could increase. At first it seemed that it was a district-scale flood. Then provincial. Then the regional one. The rains will soon end, some said. The water will soon subside, others nodded. But the rains did not subside, the water conquered more and more space, and the scale of the disaster turned from large to huge, and from huge to monstrous. The flood affected nearly 39 million people. 141 were killed or missing. 29,000 houses were destroyed, more than two million residents were evacuated. And these are only preliminary estimates, which will grow further. Two million evacuees is very, very large, even by the standards of densely populated China. More than a million people need emergency assistance in the “right now“ mode. The water in the Yangtze River has now risen to levels comparable to the 1961 record. The same picture is in the upper Yellow River. There is one more important point, financial. China has spent billions of dollars to fight COVID. Loses billions more in a trade war with the United States. Another test in the form of unprecedented rains falls from the sky: only direct economic damage from floods has reached almost $ 12 billion. The threat of a breach looms over the world’s largest dam. The Three Gorges hydroelectric power plant was hit by huge streams of water after a powerful flood. The water level has almost reached its limit. The authorities evacuated people. Upstream, in the city of Chongqing alone (Sichuan province), 300,000 people were evacuated. There were severe floods in central and southwestern China. This led to the fact that the water level at the Three Gorges Dam reached the highest limit. Watch China Flooding AUG 2020 - Hubei Province and Yangtze River: Subscribe to the channel “When the Earth is Angry“: #Flood #ChinaFlood2020 #ChinaFlooding