A staff sergeant in the duty room stared nervously at the fax machine. After the beeping sound stopped, the fax machine spit out a piece of emergency weather information.
He picked it up and glanced at it, and saw the word "Urgent". He jumped up like clockwork and rushed out of the door. He rushed to Xue Zhengrong's room and knocked hard, "Report! Xue Da, the Southern Meteorological Observatory is reporting urgently!"
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Xue Zhengrong, who had been asleep for less than an hour, sat up reflexively and rushed to the door, opened it suddenly and turned on the room light, snatching it away and looking at it quickly.
"What are you afraid of? Call an emergency gathering and activate the plan! Everyone is ready to fight the storm!" Xue Zhengrong gave the order decisively.
"yes!"
Xue Zhengrong looked at the time, it was one fifteen in the morning.
At the same time as the emergency rally whistle sounded, you could hear an emergency rally at the reef guarding camp in the distance. Undoubtedly, the entire island and reef took action almost at the same time. Other local agencies, business units and engineering teams at the construction site
As well as the port, they all woke up from their dreams and quickly activated emergency plans.
Forgotten Reef has just received a large amount of supplies, and its previous defenses were not up to the level of being able to defend against storms, so the storage yard and warehouse at the dock suddenly became the focus of attention.
Li Hai jumped out of bed almost at the same time as Dang Weimin.
After listening carefully, Li Hai said loudly, "It's a non-military plan!"
Before the flight yesterday afternoon, Xue Zhengrong first asked them to learn the emergency plan system on the islands and reefs. Each plan has different requirements. Which plan is executed will be notified through the emergency muster whistle. There are not many emergency plans, and they are based on the surrounding weather.
The most.
It took fifteen seconds to put on the marine camouflage training uniform and camouflage rubber shoes. Li Hai grabbed his brain belt and rushed out, followed closely by Dang Weimin. The two rushed to the designated location to line up and assemble.
The agency building is also an accommodation building, a comprehensive building combined into one. The open space in front of the building is the gathering place. Li Zewen and Wang Jiu also woke up, and they appeared in the corridor to watch the troops urgently assemble.
Li Zewen looked up and observed the sky and said, "A storm is forming."
Wang Jiu stretched out his hand to feel the slightly cold wind coming by. He licked his lips and said, "I'm afraid it will intensify into a typhoon."
They are all veteran sailors who have been on the sea all year round, and they immediately have relatively accurate judgments.
"Summer and autumn are typhoon-prone seasons, so it's not surprising. They have rich experience in dealing with them," Li Zewen said.
Wang Jiu said, "When we were berthing, I saw a lot of supplies piled up on their pier, and none of them were prepared for wind and typhoon resistance. Chief ship, do you want to mobilize our people to help?"
"Well, you inform me first and I'll go find Xiao Xue." Li Zewen put on the coat he was wearing.
The officers and soldiers at Wangwojiao Airport quickly completed their assembly, and Xue Zhengrong reported the situation: "Comrades! Receive an emergency report from the higher-level meteorological station! A tropical storm has appeared to the southeast of us! It is moving towards me at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour! There is something
The trend of developing into a strong typhoon! According to the emergency plan requirements! From now on, all personnel will be involved in wind protection and typhoon resistance! We only have seven hours! My request is! Complete the wind protection and typhoon resistance deployment of this field as soon as possible! There are piles of goods piled up on the pier
We have a lot of supplies to support our Marine Corps brothers!"
After a brief mobilization, each team quickly took action. The wind and typhoon prevention plan was detailed to the specific work of each team member, which can be said to be an exhaustive plan rule. Airport, flight squadron, maintenance squadron, meteorological observatory, field maintenance squadron, command team,
Several company-level units, almost all of which were understaffed, formed the unit commanded by Xue Zhengrong.
He usually joked that this unit with only about 200 people but supporting an operational airport with a three-thousand-meter runway should be called the Special Aviation Tactical Group. However, since he only has four J-8Fs in his hands, the so-called group
It really doesn't live up to its name.
The most important thing at the airport is of course the aircraft. The two J-8Fs parked on the open-air apron were quickly pulled into a semi-buried permanent hangar for protection, and all support vehicles and equipment were moved to a safe indoors.
More officers and soldiers used windproof and anti-typhoon materials to reinforce things that are easy to fall, such as trees, etc.
Perhaps considering that Li Hai and Dang Weimin were new arrivals and were pilots, they were assigned to follow the people from the field maintenance squadron to reinforce the trees around the airport, doing these relatively easy and simple tasks.
Li Hai did not hesitate at all, and formed a team with the party and the people, using hollow steel pipes to form tripods to fix trees as thick as calves. The wind was gradually increasing, one after another, which was the most obvious sign before the storm came.
Suddenly, the street lights went out.
Obviously, in order to ensure the safety of power supply, the power supply station temporarily cut off domestic electricity. Radar stations, meteorological stations, desalination stations, defense systems, communication systems, etc. on the islands and reefs must give priority to the power supply, and reserve power.
is limited, and in the event of severe weather, domestic electricity is usually cut off.
Li Hai held up a flashlight with one hand and switched from the main role to the supporting role to help the party carry out reinforcement work for the people.
The port's shipping command center became an emergency command center, and the tower took advantage of air observation and transformed it into a weather information center. Xue Zhengrong maintained contact with the emergency center while staring at the data continuously transmitted back by the weather radar.
At this stage, we mainly rely on the meteorological satellite images reported in real time by the meteorological observatories deployed on the mainland and their judgment results. There is no ability to directly obtain meteorological satellite information on the Forgotten Reef.
After the communication was completed, Li Zewen asked Wang Jiu to rush to the port and lead the crew to help Zhong Guobang's department carry out wind prevention and anti-typhoon work, while he and Xue Zhengrong guarded the tower.
The fax machine was ticking and spitting out warm paper. Xue Zhengrong picked it up and read it carefully. He handed it to Li Zewen and said, "Uncle Li, look, the chief researcher of the higher-level meteorological station has an 80% chance of
If it transforms into a typhoon, the central wind force may reach level 15."
After carefully looking at several data, Li Zewen compared the distance and said in a deep voice, "That is also a matter of landing on the Indochina Peninsula, but the pressure of wind protection and typhoon resistance on Wangji Reef is not small. I suggest you contact Lao Zhong and ask him to
Hundreds of fishing boats sheltered from the wind undergo another comprehensive inspection."
Small fishing boats have little ability to protect themselves.
Xue Zhengrong immediately contacted Zhong Guobang, who was in charge of the emergency command center, and learned that Zhong Guobang was already doing this work. Not only that, he also required all personnel on all ships to go ashore, and no one was allowed to stay on the ship.
Not long after he put down the handset of the landline phone, Xue Zhengrong suddenly felt a cramp in his abdomen. The sudden pain made him bend down and cover his abdomen subconsciously.
"Xiao Xue?" Li Zewen noticed something was wrong and quickly supported him and helped him sit down on the chair.
Xue Zhengrong's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he said with difficulty, "I suddenly felt severe pain in my abdomen."
"Go to the aviation hospital." Li Zewen said.
Xue Zhengrong shook his head and refused, "No, I'll be fine after a while."
"Don't show off." Li Zewen turned to the staff and said, "Call the doctor and go quickly."
He also knew that Xue Zhengrong had to keep an eye on this, so he could only invite the doctor over. Xue Zhengrong did not refuse anymore. He could feel that the abdominal pain was not ordinary, and this was not the time to force himself.
Not long after, the director of the aviation medical office brought an assistant over with first aid equipment and other things. After giving Xue Zhengrong an examination, the director of the aviation medical office said, "The current diagnosis is food poisoning. To be on the safe side, a blood test is required."
Xue Da, have you eaten anything else for dinner besides food from the canteen?"
Everyone in the airport eats in the same canteen, and they all eat food from the same pot. If it is food poisoning, it means there is something wrong with the food produced in the canteen tonight. However, except for Xue Zhengrong, no one
Others experience similar symptoms.
Xue Zhengrong said, "I haven't eaten anything else. Is there something wrong with the food in the canteen?"
What he is most worried about is this. If mass food poisoning occurs, the entire airport will be paralyzed.
"This possibility can be ruled out at the moment. Your physique is better than most people's. If there is a problem with the food, I think many people will have symptoms earlier than you, but they have not appeared so far. It may take a blood test to find out.
A relatively accurate judgment." said the director of the aviation medical office.
Xue Zhengrong breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just a good thing if it's not mass food poisoning."
The assistant immediately took blood, and the director of the aviation medical office prescribed some more conservative pain-relieving drugs and ordered a soldier to go to the aviation medical office to get the medicine.
Wind prevention and typhoon resistance work on the islands and reefs is carried out in an orderly manner. According to incomplete statistics, Wangji Reef experiences more than 50 strong winds of magnitude 10 or above every year, including tropical storms, typhoons, and hurricanes, most of which occur in summer and autumn.
.Experienced on average twice a week.
In other words, the troops stationed on the island of Forgotten Reef and the enterprises and institutions on other islands have very rich experience in wind protection and Taiwan resistance.
Zhong Guobang, who is in charge of the emergency command center, is not very worried. He has worked on the islands and reefs for more than ten years and has never seen any big winds or waves. The conditions were even worse before. When encountering strong winds, waves, storms, and typhoons, he risked his life to fight them.
From a lonely stilt house to a small island covering an area of several square kilometers and supporting a life of up to 10,000 people, the change has been huge. Two years ago, we encountered a typhoon with a central wind force of level 17.
, there were no casualties on the Forgotten Reef, and no buildings collapsed.
Zhong Guobang is very confident that all wind and typhoon preparations will be completed before the strong wind arrives.
He is most worried about one situation - a fishing boat is in danger.
Not all fishing boats will obey the warnings and instructions of relevant departments. Some fishermen blindly pursue economic interests and take chances, so they miss the time to avoid danger. These examples occur every time a typhoon approaches.
Once a fishing boat sends out a distress signal, as the only island with rescue capabilities within a radius of 200 nautical miles, the troops stationed on the Forgotten Reef must respond.
