Chapter 2164

God seems to be tired too; the heavy rain that lasted for half a month finally stopped. On the day the heavy rain stopped, the people of Chongjin County even cheered.

You can't blame them for being too excited; it's just that this heavy rain has brought them too much inconvenience. If it rained for another half month, this inconvenience would turn into a huge disaster, and it is estimated that the entire Chongjin County seat would be flooded.

In fact, in the current Chongjin County seat, many low-lying areas have had water enter people's homes, especially in those bungalows and shantytowns. A scene that can be seen everywhere is that wooden and bamboo products are floating on the water, and the residents there are desperately scooping water out of their homes with basins, and are also building small dams with bricks at their own doors, trying to block the water outside.

Su Xinghui once saw a family in a shantytown where a large wooden basin was floating in their main room, and a small child was sitting in the wooden basin, playing happily, rowing a boat with two wooden boards. He didn't know at all what such a big flood meant; he seemed to treat this wooden basin as his own warship, and he became the captain.

The child's parents were desperately scooping water out of the door, hoping to lower the water level in the house.

Such a scene is a bit funny, but actually a bit warm. Su Xinghui couldn't help but remember that he had also sat in such a wooden basin when he was a child. At that time, his family still lived in a bungalow, and at that time, he also felt that sitting in a wooden basin was a very happy thing.

But the problem is that such deep water really affects life too much. However, if the heavy rain doesn't stop, there is really nowhere for the water to drain. Now the water levels in the river and lake are too high. If it rains for another half month, I fear that many people will be homeless.

This time, as soon as the rain stopped, the water in Chongjin County seat immediately began to recede. Although the water receded slowly because the water levels in the river and lake were still very high, this still made everyone very happy.

Two days later, the water receded completely. Su Xinghui immediately organized the health and epidemic prevention department to disinfect the entire county, because it is summer now. As soon as the rain stopped, the scorching sun was immediately in the sky, and after the water receded, there were corpses of small animals everywhere, such as cats, dogs, mice, etc. If these things are not cleared away and then disinfected, they will soon rot under the scorching sun and breed bacteria.

This is also the reason why there is often a major epidemic after a major disaster. For a county magistrate, these details must be noticed. Often, if one detail is not noticed, it may trigger a major disaster.

This time, Su Xinghui arranged these things very meticulously, so after the sky cleared, the whole county was soon cleaned up, and every corner was disinfected.

However, there is one thing that cannot be recovered, and that is this year's rice harvest. During this year's rice grain-filling period, encountering such a heavy rain, most of the rice was drowned. Even those that luckily survived were on their last legs, and the rice ears were shriveled. By next month, being able to harvest a few dozen jin per mu would already be a quite good harvest.

Moreover, although the rain has stopped now, it does not mean that it will not rain at all. If it rains one or two more heavy rains at some point, a total crop failure of rice is possible.

This is of course a big deal, but now Su Xinghui can't take care of this matter. No matter how bad the harvest is, it is only an external thing. As long as he finds a way, it can always be made up for. But now there is a more important thing, and that is that the water level has risen again.

The rain stopped, but why did the water level rise again? This is because the heavy rain has moved to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Heavy rain fell in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, so the flood water level flowing here naturally rose. On the second day after the heavy rain stopped, a flood peak arrived, making everyone in Chongjin County, including Su Xinghui, nervous for a day.

However, facts have proven that the quality of this river embankment can still stand the test. The height of this flood peak was unprecedented, but it still safely withstood the invasion of the flood peak and stood tall and motionless.

Seeing the performance of this embankment, Su Xinghui let out a long sigh of relief.

The embankment in Chongjin County was so solid and easily passed this flood peak, but other places were not so relaxed.

Some counties and cities along the river in Hudong Province were okay. Of course, this can also be attributed to Su Xinghui. It was he who discovered a water conservancy expert like Weng Guoying to renovate the main Yangtze River embankment in the entire Hudong Province. Although the standard was not as high as that of Chongjin County, at least there were no shoddy projects, which was much better than Su Xinghui's past life, so Hudong Province's performance this time was very outstanding.

However, in the lower reaches of Hudong Province, Jiangyou Province and other provinces, except for Chongjin County, the performance was not very good. In the previous heavy rains and this flood peak, they performed very embarrassingly. Some cities and counties even had their main Yangtze River embankments breached. Their sandbags were not enough, and they even pulled rice bags from the grain depots to the embankment to fill the breaches.

In addition to the Yangtze River Basin, other major rivers in China also experienced floods, and the flood water levels were very high. Even the basins of several rivers in the north also experienced rare heavy rains and once-in-a-century floods.

This flood has developed into a nationwide major flood, and everyone realizes that the momentum of this flood is fierce.

The leaders of Jiangyou Province also went to various disaster areas to inspect and guide the flood control and disaster relief work, and Ke Zhifang's first stop was Chongjin County.

This was the first time Ke Zhifang came to Chongjin County since Su Xinghui took office. Although he is a great provincial governor, at this critical moment of flood control and disaster relief, he could not care about any pomp. He traveled light with only two or three cars to Chongjin County.

Chongjin County did not hold any welcoming ceremony in the suburbs. It is really because the county leaders are all busy supervising the battle in various towns and villages and cannot gather to hold any welcoming ceremony for Ke Zhifang. Only the County Party Committee Secretary Yuan Yifu, who was in charge of the county party committee, welcomed Ke Zhifang alone.

After Ke Zhifang met Yuan Yifu, he shook hands with him and asked him to take him to the embankment to have a look. Yuan Yifu did not say much and took Ke Zhifang directly to the river embankment in the county seat. Su Xinghui happened to be on this section of the river embankment.

He can also be considered very good at guessing the intentions of leaders. Ke Zhifang came to Chongjin County, naturally wanting to see Su Xinghui.

The group went up to the embankment, and Ke Zhifang saw Su Xinghui's figure at a glance. He was carrying a sandbag and running towards the embankment. Even among the countless busy figures, Su Xinghui was very eye-catching because he was tall.

Yuan Yifu also saw Su Xinghui and shouted, "County Magistrate, the Provincial Governor is here!"

Su Xinghui heard this shout, looked back, accelerated his pace, and threw the sandbag onto the top of the embankment. This was used to raise the top of the embankment. After throwing it there, he ran towards Ke Zhifang's group.

Su Xinghui said happily, "Provincial Governor Ke, why are you here?"

Ke Zhifang laughed, "Isn't it because the water level of the flood has risen again recently? All the provincial leaders have gone to the grassroots, so I volunteered to come to Chongjin County. I am very curious about your embankment renovation project in Chongjin County. Kang Zhida praised your project as a flower, and I want to see how the actual effect is."

Su Xinghui said, "You can just look at it. I think the actual effect is quite good. For more than half a month, under such high water pressure, our patrol personnel have patrolled day and night and have not found any phenomenon of piping. The only thing to worry about now is that the water level is too high and will overflow the top of the embankment."

Ke Zhifang was a little surprised. He knew how high the water level was now. The water level in the same period of the great flood in '54 was not as high as this year. Under such high water pressure, the embankment here did not even show any piping phenomenon?

Piping is a very common phenomenon in flood control and disaster relief, and it is also the phenomenon that poses the greatest threat to the safety of the embankment. Even very thin piping, under strong water pressure, can develop into a huge breach within ten or even a few hours.