The rain was getting heavier. It was only around two o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was as dark as it was after seven o'clock in the evening. You could vaguely see the crowds of people just a few meters away.
"Start the flood control emergency plan immediately!" Almost all the members of the Standing Committee of the Working Committee and the Directors of the Management Committee rushed to the river embankment. Everyone knows that the time has come to test the governance ability of the development zone team, and today is July 1st, the party's birthday!
If on the party's birthday, heavy casualties occur in the new district that is concentrated on construction, neither Liao Xiangting nor Tan Wenzheng can be justified. The only thing waiting for them, Chen Jiangping and Qiu Huiyue, who are directly responsible, is to be removed from office!
But at this time, the flood control emergency response is different from the general sense. At this time, the disaster has already occurred, and the most important thing is to save the lives and property of the people!
"The offices of the two committees will issue a notice immediately." In the pouring rain, lightning flashed from time to time, illuminating a group of leaders on the embankment. "Except for the four streets along the river, all bureaus and streets in the district have come to reinforce the work.
The commission office took the lead, the Organization Department, and the Discipline Inspection Commission participated to assist Furong Street in dividing areas, and separately rescued people’s lives and properties!”
"Coordinate with the Armed Police Squadron, mobilize police stations from the Public Security Bureau to come for reinforcements, and evacuate the masses..."
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Under the dark sky, there is the dark river surface, and there are the dark people crowded in the river. The screams, cries, curses, and quarrels of the vendors can be heard for miles.
"This is a waste of time and the crowd's mood is unstable. We must prevent stampedes from happening!" Cai Yongjin said loudly.
Before he finished speaking, a woman's sharp scream from the nearby river pierced his eardrums, "Junjun - Junjun - where have you been? Junjun -"
Liao Xiangting stared at the river and looked at Cai Yongjin, "The working committee and management committee offices will take the lead and go down to the river immediately to evacuate the people!"
"Beware of stampedes! Be careful not to rob people of their property!"
"I only have one request - zero casualties!"
"You go too." Liao Xiangting took the umbrella from secretary Wang Xiaoshu's hand, "I don't need cadres holding umbrellas, go to the front line! All standing committee members and directors go down to the river and do the work of the masses!"
Wang Xiaoshu was stunned, and without even wearing a raincoat, he rushed down to the river with a few young men from the Working Committee Management Committee. Several members of the Standing Committee and Management Committee Directors also walked down the river holding umbrellas.
"Adjust high-power searchlights. There are border defenses and mines. You can adjust them as much as you can..."
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Liao Xiangting was at the center of the formation, and all the bureaus and streets did not dare to neglect. The embankment was quickly filled with vehicles.
The cadres of Furong Subdistrict were on a three-kilometer front, distributing the teams of cadres who came for reinforcements. The whole scene was filled with people and the sound of rain was loud.
However, in the face of the power of nature, human beings will always be small.
The water level keeps rising, "Secretary Liao, it's almost three meters." Cai Yongjin didn't even hold an umbrella, he was soaked all over, "What should I do? The water upstream has opened the gates, and the water on the mountain can't be blocked...
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Just like the weather forecast in China will never report temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, which can easily cause panic, similarly, if the water level rises again, it is not appropriate to make a big deal about it at this time.
Liao Xiangting looked at the pitch-black river. There was no light on the river, and she could only hear occasional thunder and endless cries and noises.
"How can we pull the electricity over?" Liao Xiangting frowned and looked up at the ink-black sky, which was still tinged with yellow. "It's too dark on the river and the mood of the people is unstable. If something goes wrong, the entire river will be in trouble."
If a stampede occurs,...the cadres of the government agencies...are all old and young, and they are also human lives!"
"I'll notify Hou Weidong of the Power Supply Bureau! They have an emergency vehicle!" Cai Yongjin said, "How can we stabilize the mood of the masses?"
"Call Chen Jiangping," Liao Xiangting ordered. "He is a landlord... Alas, it's a good thing that this river has been dredged. Otherwise, it would be so narrow and the consequences would be disastrous!" He suddenly seemed to remember something, "Yue Wen..."
In the darkness and heavy rain, Chen Jiangping walked over covered in mud, one foot shallow and one foot shallow, with a few moss on his hair. "The loss is too heavy, the loss is too heavy..."
Qiu Huiyue took people down to the river, and he was not far from Liao Xiangting, directing them on the spot.
"Is there a loudspeaker, the kind of loudspeaker in rural areas, that can be broadcast?" Liao Xiangting directly ordered, "Immediately send people to the loudspeakers in the surrounding villages to broadcast to remind the people not to panic..."
Before he finished speaking, the alarm sounded.
"What's going on?" Liao Xiangting was annoyed. Who in the Public Security Bureau is so ignorant?
"Issuing the District Flood Control Office Order No. 1 now, Order No. 1!" The voice was still unhurried, and the lights were slowly cruising on both sides of the river. It could be seen that it was coming from a car.
The sound of the radio sounded too quiet in the heavy rain and the noise in the river, but people could hear it if they got closer.
"Who ordered the announcement?" Liao Xiangting became even more angry. Tan Wenzheng shook his head, and the executive deputy director of the district management committee, who was the commander-in-chief of the district's three defenses, also shook his head.
The temporary tent had been set up, and the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau invited the two main leaders to come in. Liao Xiangting didn't even look at him, still staring at the river.
"It's Yue Wen from our street." Chen Dongping heard in a low voice that he was coming.
Just now, several people smelled of alcohol and he was scolded by him. He thought Yue Wen had led them into the river, but he didn't expect Yue Wen to start broadcasting.
"The people in the river will evacuate to the shore immediately, evacuate to the shore immediately, risking their lives and not their wealth, until everything is empty, until everything is empty! Okay, I'll broadcast it again..."
"How do you talk about this?" Cai Yongjin frowned.
Liao Xiangting frowned and said what he said must be spoken into people's hearts. Otherwise, high-sounding words would be useless!
Well, with so many people and government officials crowded into a long and narrow river, there should be a unified command system.
"Issuing the District Flood Control Office Order No. 2 now, Order No. 2! All drivers who came to the rescue immediately returned to their cars, turned their cars around, turned on their car lights, turned on their car lights, and shined on the river..."
"good!!"
Liao Xiangting said loudly, the raging rain had already wet his clothes, but Cai Yongjin still heard the joy in his voice.
"Yue Wen, there is a way!"
People kept coming ashore in the river, and both sides of the river were filled with the roar of engines, accompanied by rolling thunder and lightning, which was a spectacular sight.
Slowly, countless lights of police cars, cars, and off-road vehicles on both sides of the strait lit up, and bright beams of light were thrown towards the river, illuminating the river. The scattered crowd in the Xin River could be seen clearly...
"It has flooded like this before, but not as severe as this year..." Chen Jiangping also saw the crowd of people in the river password-coding.
Liao Xiangting interrupted him and listened. The loudspeakers from the surrounding villages began to sound powerful. The four loudspeakers from four villages almost covered the three-kilometer-long river.
The sounds of Hei Ba, Bao Bao, Biao Zi and Silkworm Chrysalis kept appearing in the sky over Xinhe...
"First, everyone should stop crowding and pay attention to safety; second, everyone should watch over their children and not get lost; third, everyone should stop caring about the goods and evacuate to the shore..."
"Well, these are good ideas. I think there will be no problem at the scene." Liao Xiangting was soaked all over, but she still stood in the heavy rain. "Water Conservancy Bureau, are you ready for the flood discharge?"
"The gate of the flood channel is rusty!" the director of water affairs, who has a head like a pig and a body like a pig, said embarrassedly.