When the temperature rose to 45 degrees, the safety zone ushered in the first sandstorm.
Sandstorms are a symbol of desertification. Strong winds sweep up the sand on the ground and are one of the most harmful natural disasters.
A storm carrying sand swept in from the mountains three kilometers away. Wan Tao hit a stainless steel pot lid with a stick and reminded everyone to close the doors and windows at the loudest volume.
Ye Fu moved the things in the yard back to the wooden house, and locked the shed and sheepfold. Fortunately, Jiang Run had repaired it before, and even a strong wind of level 10 could not blow it away.
He took out an oilcloth and put it over the pond, pulled out all the vegetables in the vegetable field, and put all the watermelons into the space.
In less than ten minutes, the sky was covered with yellow sand, the sound of "woo woo woo" sounded, and the storm passed through the trees and grass and rushed directly to the safe area.
Ye Fu whistled three times, and Doumiao and Luo Luo finally returned home a few seconds before the storm came to the wooden house. Ye Fu closed the door and looked at the roaring wind outside through the window.
The wind and sand were blown to the windows, and the clean glass was quickly covered with thick sand, and the house was shaking in the storm.
Vaguely, Ye Fu also heard the sound of Wan Tao banging stainless steel, and a few children crying.
The first sandstorm only lasted for an hour and ended. Ye Fu walked out of the wooden house and saw that the grass, woods, vegetable fields, and fields in the safe area were all covered with sand.
Ye Fu dug it with her feet and found that the sand was almost twenty centimeters thick. She was wearing a mask and goggles, but she was still choking and coughing.
Yellow sand was flying all over the sky. Just two minutes after Ye Fugu came out, his clothes and hair were covered with a layer of sand.
Jiang Run took the fishing net, opened the oilcloth, and fished out all the fish in the pond. The originally green vegetable field had turned into sandy land. The two of them packed up the fish as quickly as possible, and Ye Fu
I went to the backyard and found that the shed and sheep pen were still strong, and the rabbit nest was also intact.
However, half an hour later, the second sandstorm came again.
With a click, the branches of the pine trees outside the yard were blown off by the wind, and a stone was picked up by the wind and hit directly on the door of the wooden house. Ye Fu was washing the sand on his face in the bathroom, and Jiang Run was shaking the bean sprouts.
Drop the tail.
“Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos er y yì yì huì huì huì huì huì huhu huhuhu whirrs.
The second sandstorm lasted for almost an hour and then stopped. The sand accumulated outside became thicker and people could no longer go out normally.
"I don't know when it will stop."
Ye Fu didn't know what was going on in the building, mainly because it was too fast. Jiang Run heard a sandstorm coming a few kilometers away. Ye Fu hurriedly went to notify Wan Tao. Wan Tao had no doubts and knocked on the stainless steel to notify others.
, in just ten minutes, the entire safe area was swept by the storm and then buried by sand.
If there are no plants in the land outside, or in other words, there are very few plants, then the probability of sandstorms will only increase in the future. There will be zero precipitation this year, and the land will weather faster. In the near future, perhaps all the land will become
become a desert.
Sandstorms will come almost every half hour, lasting about an hour each time. On the second day, the sandstorms begin to weaken, and they will come every two hours, lasting about half an hour. On the third day, they will come every other time.
Come once every four or five hours, and each session lasts ten minutes.
After the sandstorm subsided, residents in the safety zone had to go out to work and chose to coexist with the storm.
All the bamboo brought back from the mountains to divert water was blown down by the storm. Wan Tao organized everyone to cut the bamboo again to divert water. This sandstorm injured 30 people in the safety zone and caused five deaths.
The three people were swept away and disappeared. Liu Zhang took people out to search, and finally found the bodies of the three people five kilometers outside the safe zone.
More than hundreds of chickens and ducks were swept away by the storm. Almost all vegetable fields were destroyed by the sandstorm. Even many trees in the safety zone were damaged. Several meters of sand fell into the pond.
There were only a dozen fish left alive.
Fortunately, most of the food was transferred to the cellar in time, thus saving everyone's food rations.
The residents could only arm themselves and replant their fields and vegetable gardens.
The seeds of Sijiqing are blown away by the wind, and grass seeds may fall wherever the wind goes.
Although the losses suffered by Ye Fu and Jiang Run were not as heavy as others, thick sand and soil fell from the ground to the roof, and it took a long time to clean up.
"Cough cough cough..."
Even if the head is tightly wrapped, wind and sand can still enter the nose, and intermittent coughing can be heard wherever there are people.
Jiang Run cleaned the pond in the yard and put the live fish in the bucket into it.
"We also need to build a shed above the pond. There are sandstorms every day now. If we don't build a shed, it will be useless."
"Okay, do you still want to do the vegetable patch?"
Ye Fu shook his head, "Don't do it yet, I'm going to cut the grass. Fortunately, I saved a lot of grass before, otherwise the lambs and rabbits would starve to death."
Ye Fu took the sickle and the bamboo basket and left. If he wanted to cut the grass, he had to remove the sand and soil on the grass.
Ye Fu kicked the sand clean with her feet and cut a full bamboo basket as quickly as possible. On the way back, she met other people who came out to cut grass. No one dared to say hello, for fear of eating a lot of food when they opened their mouths.
sandy soil.
Ye Fu fed the goats and rabbits grass, and then walked around the outside of the safety zone. There were many animals hanging on the wire fence, all blown over by the sandstorm.
For several kilometers in a radius, all the grass that could be seen was covered with sand. Ye Fu was thankful that he had sown a lot of tree seeds, which protected him from a lot of sand and strong winds.
On the way back, Ye Fu dragged away a few branches that were broken by the wind.
As soon as he returned to the wooden house, Ye Fu saw Wan Tao and Liu Zhang standing in the yard, with Jiang Run beside them. The three of them didn't know what they were talking about.
"Ye Fu, you are finally back."
"What's wrong?"
"I want to get you some styptic powder and come over to see how much damage you have suffered." Wan Tao didn't mince words and directly stated the purpose of coming here.
"Except for the vegetable field, there is no loss. I will go get the styptic powder for you right now."
Ye Fu entered the house, and outside, Wan Tao's voice sounded again, "Jiang Run, many people want to build wooden houses. Can you go over and provide guidance for a few days?"
Jiang Run paused and agreed, "Okay."
He had read several books on architecture, and building a wooden house was not a problem for him.
"It's great that you agreed. The building is uninhabitable. It has been shaking badly these days. All the residents in the building have to move out. I looked around and found that your cabin is relatively strong and can still be used.
Withstanding such a huge sandstorm, several other houses built with bamboo roofs and wooden huts were all blown down by the storm."
Ye Fu went out with a can of styptic powder. Wan Tao saw her and sighed, "Qi Yuan and the others suffered a lot this time. A lot of chickens and ducks were blown away. Wenwen lost one of her lambs. I
When I came here, she was still crying, but she was very sad."
This chapter has been completed!