On-the-spot report on Fujian’s typhoon "Seagull"
Everything is for the safety of people’s lives and property ―― On-the-spot report on Fujian’s defense against typhoon "Seagull"
At about 14: 20 on July 18th, it was stormy in Xiapu section of Fujian Province, shenyang-haikou expressway. According to the latest news from Fujian Meteorological Observatory, the strong tropical storm "Seagull" landed in Changchun Town, Xiapu County, Fujian Province at 18: 10 on the 18th, with a central air pressure of 988 hectopascals, a maximum wind force of 10 near the center and a wind speed of 25 m/s.. Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Kehong photo
Xinhuanet Fuzhou, July 19 (Reporter Tu Hongchang, Lai Jianqiang, Kang Miao) At 18: 10 on the 18th, the "Seagull" which caused great disaster in Taiwan Province landed again in Mindong and entered Zhejiang in the early morning of the 19th. Although the intensity of the storm continued to weaken, it still triggered a large-scale rainfall in northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang.
Faced with the challenge of violent storms, Fujian quickly blew the "assembly number" to protect people’s lives and property. A series of tight and orderly anti-resistance measures have achieved good results. Up to now, the province has not found any casualties caused by typhoons.
"Seagull" is threatening.
This year’s No.7 typhoon "Seagull" was generated on the Philippine ocean at 14: 00 on the 15th, and then all the way to the northwest. At 21: 40 on the 17th, "Seagull", which gathered huge energy at sea, landed in the south of Yilan County, Taiwan. The sudden storm brought severe tests to Taiwan Province, which has always been well-trained in typhoon prevention and resistance.
According to statistics, from 17th to 18th, the main rainfall areas in Taiwan Province were concentrated in the area from the south of Miaoli to Pingtung, including Chiayi, Nantou, Tainan and Kaohsiung, with accumulated rainfall exceeding 1000mm. "Seagull" not only brings a lot of rainfall, but more seriously, the rainfall is very concentrated, which makes the flood worse and makes the drainage system in some cities unbearable.
According to the disaster report on Taiwan Province Island, the "Seagull" attack has caused 16 deaths, 11 missing, 673,000 families to stop water supply, many traffic trunk roads have been interrupted, some trains on the western trunk line of Taiwan Railway and high-speed rail have been stopped, flights at Taichung Qingquangang Airport have been suspended, Mazu’s foreign air and sea traffic has been interrupted, and Taiwan Province’s agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry have lost more than NT$ 110 million.
After passing through Taiwan Province, "Seagull" weakened from a typhoon to a strong tropical storm, and gradually approached the coastal areas of northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang. From 17: 00 on the 17th to the morning of 18th, Fujian Meteorological Observatory issued four typhoon yellow warning signals, saying that from 18th to 19th, some counties and cities in Fujian had heavy rain or rainstorm, and some counties and cities in Ningde and Fuzhou had heavy rain. "Seagull" affects Zhejiang Province during the flood season, which is prone to the phenomenon of wind, rain and tide, aggravating the harm. Therefore, the Zhejiang Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters started the typhoon-proof level II emergency response at 20: 00 on the 17th.
"’Seagull’ is generated offshore and moves fast. The radius of the 7-level wind circle reaches 300 kilometers. Landing at any point in Fujian will cover the whole of Fujian Province, and the resulting heavy rainfall will have a greater impact on Fujian, which requires the prevention and resistance work to be swift and rigorous." Wu Jinta, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Flood Control Office, said.
From the 18th, Fuzhou swept away the sunny and hot weather a few days ago. The sky was cloudy with frequent showers, and large and small streams of water quickly appeared on both sides of some low-lying streets. Wang Chengdong, a citizen of Gulou District, went to the supermarket early in the morning to buy a refrigerator of vegetables and fruits. He said, "It is not convenient to go out when the typhoon comes. Stay at home on weekends and get ready for’ food and grass’."
After a long-distance attack of more than 1,000 kilometers at sea, at 18: 10 on the 18th, the "Seagull" with the maximum wind force of 10 near the center landed on the coast of Changchun Town, Xiapu County, Ningde City, Fujian Province again. The dark clouds hung low at the head of Xiapu County, and the roaring sea breeze blew the residents’ glass windows. Less than an hour after "Seagull" landed, the rain in Xiapu County gradually increased, and Xiapu’s transportation lines to other places, such as highways, national highways and maritime passenger routes, were blocked.
More than 300,000 people were transferred.
"The waves are so flat and there is no rain. Why can’t we go back to the fishing raft?"
"Now that the wind is back to the south, it may attack Sandu’ ao head-on, and it must be transferred immediately!"
At about 16: 00 on the 18th, Yang Shanbao, a fisherman in the Qingshan sea area of Sandu ‘ao, Jiaocheng District, Ningde City, refused to board the boat in the face of the mobilization of reserve officers and soldiers and town cadres. Seeing that the "seagull" was about to strike, Lan Tingjia, secretary of the Party Committee of Sandu Town, gave an order and took decisive measures to forcibly transfer it to a patrol boat and send it to a safe land for resettlement.
It turned out that at about 10: 00 on the 18th, "Seagull" turned northward to the coastal area of Zhejiang, and the sea area of Sandu was calm. More than 300 farmers thought that the typhoon would not reach Sandu, so they secretly ran back to the fishing raft. At about 13: 00, the typhoon returned to the south and attacked the coastal area of eastern Fujian. The cadres patrolling the sea found these secretly returning farmers, immediately mobilized them to go ashore, and forced them to transfer according to law. "The safety of people at sea is the most threatened by typhoons. Organizational transfer must be deployed in advance and implemented one by one, leaving no dead ends." Lan Tingjia said.
Wu Jinta said that according to the typhoon prevention plan of Fujian Province, people were transferred in steps during the typhoon, first the people on fishing boats and rafts, and then the people in low-lying, riverside, hillside and geological hazards. According to the statistics of Fujian Flood Control Office, as of 10: 00 on the 18th, more than 183,000 offshore workers had been safely transferred in Fujian province, including 29,300 offshore fishing rafts and 154,000 offshore vessels who entered the harbor to avoid the wind. According to the statistics of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, as of 10: 00 on the 18th, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and Zhoushan in Zhejiang Province had transferred 170,000 people and returned to Hong Kong with 26,588 sheltered vessels.
Before the "Seagull" landed, more than 11,000 ships in Ningde City returned to Hong Kong in time to take shelter from the wind, and more than 15,000 fishermen were transferred to safety. A fisherman from Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, told the reporter that it was because Ningde promptly informed all the vessels operating in the nearby waters to enter the harbor to take shelter from the wind before the typhoon landed that it escaped the strong tropical storm "Seagull".
Chen Rongkai, secretary of the Ningde Municipal Party Committee, said that after the typhoon landed, the gust of the sea near Xiapu County was still 9-10, and the secondary disasters caused by wind and rain still existed. Ningde City continued to maintain a high degree of vigilance and shifted the focus of its typhoon prevention work to the prevention of heavy rainfall. From the night of the 18th to the day of the 19th, it once again conducted a dragnet investigation on 1,390 hidden danger points of geological disasters in the city, focusing on preventing geological disasters such as mudslides and flash floods, and promptly transferring more than 140,000 people in various dangerous areas.
Huang Shuihua, an 80-year-old old man from Sandu ‘ao, Jiaocheng District, Ningde City, was transferred from a house in a low-lying area to a safe area in the urban area the day before the typhoon landed. The old man Huang Shuihua told reporters: "The people we transferred here have food, clothes, a place to live, clean water to drink, and timely treatment when they are sick, which is the blessing of the party and the government."
Good mechanism to ensure "near misses"
On the morning of 18th, Chen Jianping, director of Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of Organs Affairs, suddenly received a free mobile phone message: "According to the forecast of the Provincial Meteorological Observatory, Typhoon’ Seagull’ is expected to approach the coastal areas of northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang on the night of 18th, so please take precautions." Chen Jianping immediately launched the emergency plan of the unit, and arranged all the work to prevent and resist Typhoon No.7 "Seagull". Xiao Zhang, a citizen who temporarily went to work in Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of Organs Affairs, also received the same message and quickly informed his family.
Timely and transparent information disclosure is a major feature of typhoon prevention in Fujian Province. The Fujian Provincial Flood Control Office revealed that by more than half an hour before "Seagull" landed in Changchun Town, Xiapu County, Fujian had sent 5.15 million pieces of typhoon prevention public welfare information to mobile phone and PHS users in the province.
Fujian, with "eight mountains, one water and one field", is a province with frequent geological disasters, so the mountainous areas and rural grassroots are also greatly affected by typhoons and heavy rains. According to meteorologists, under the influence of seagulls, heavy rains and torrential rains have occurred in most counties and cities in Fujian Province, and the rainfall in 21 counties, cities and districts has exceeded 100 mm, so geological disasters are more likely to occur in some areas.
Qiu Tingmeng, spokesman of Fujian Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, said that in order to strengthen the ability of grassroots villages to resist Taiwan and reduce disasters, Fujian Province has implemented the working mechanism of "early warning to the township, planning to the village, and responsibility to the people" this year. First, each township is equipped with a disaster prevention information receiving and republishing platform, and the early warning information is immediately transmitted to the relevant villages, units and flood control responsible persons through telephone, SMS and radio. Second, each administrative village should prepare relevant typhoon emergency plans; Third, the responsibility of each link in the typhoon prevention plan should be implemented to individuals.
In order to prevent the rainstorm and its secondary disasters, Zhang Changping, executive vice governor of Fujian Province, stressed that it is necessary to warn the county and township about the rainfall two hours before the rainstorm, and all localities should officially launch the disaster prevention and mitigation mechanism of "early warning to the township and pre-planning to the village", pay attention to the prevention of local rainstorms and extremely heavy rainstorms, focus on guarding and patrolling the hidden danger points of major geological disasters, and strengthen inspection and watch over dangerous reservoirs, high-water reservoirs and reservoirs upstream of densely populated areas to ensure safety.
Chen Rongkai, secretary of Ningde Municipal Party Committee, said that after the typhoon landed in Changchun Town, Xiapu County, Ningde City, millions of people in Ningde City were "near misses" and no one died from the disaster.
Although the typhoon has crossed the border, the work of preventing and resisting heavy rain in Fujian Province has not been relaxed. On the evening of 18th, Lu Zhangong, secretary of Fujian Provincial Party Committee, demanded that cadres at all levels should still go deep into the front line and command from the front, so that the plan can be effectively implemented. According to the rainfall situation, secondary disasters such as possible landslides should be closely monitored and the masses should be transferred in time. It is necessary to strengthen the responsibility mechanism, "we cannot cause losses to people’s lives and property because our work is not in place."
Editor: Li Xingcun