BEIJING – Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on April 21 to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people.
Riders using a waterlogged road in Guangzhou, in China’s Guangdong province, on April 20. Rain had battered parts of the province.
A 12-hour stretch of heavy rain, starting from 8pm on April 20, battered the central and northern parts of the province in Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Qingyuan and Jiangmen. “Please look at Zhaoqing’s Huaiji county, which has become a water town. The elderly and children in the countryside don’t know what to do with power outages and no signal,” said one user on the popular social media site Weibo.Raging muddy flood waters swept one vehicle down a narrow street in Zhaoqing, showed a video released by Hongxing News.
Many hydrological stations in the province are seeing exceeding water levels, weather officials warned, and in the provincial capital Guangzhou, a city of 18 million, reservoirs have reached flood limits, city officials announced on April 21.
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