It only took two days, and there wasn't even a heavy rainstorm, but it rained continuously. The water in the pond was full, the water in the small river was full, and the water in the big river became turbulent. Jiaohu Lake
The water level has begun to rise slowly.
Li Hui understood that what he should worry about was not drought, but floods.
Since he had made sufficient preparations before, Li Hui did not panic. After convening a meeting with everyone, the flood control command department and others were fully mobilized. More than a dozen teams patrolling the dams brought tents and began to settle on the lake embankment.
Continuously inspect and observe the condition of the dams and the rising water levels in Jiao Lake day and night.
Li Hui told everyone that they must not have a careless mentality, guard against minor mistakes, and find any hidden dangers, and there must be no problems.
After five or six days of continuous rain, the water level in Jiao Lake has risen to the level before the lake area was emptied. The continuous rain also caused the soil to collapse on the embankment. The Jiao Lake embankment is entirely made of soil and relies on seeds.
Trees and grass are used for fixation. Continuous rain will wash away the soil and cause the soil to slide. This is often the most troublesome hidden danger.
What the patrol team has to do is to immediately block such a place with mud bags and drive wooden stakes to fix it. At the same time, it should lay straw curtains on the areas where the vegetation has collapsed to prevent the rain from directly washing away the soil.
Walk.
Li Hui's request is not to underestimate any gap or collapse. A thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest, and inconspicuous collapse and leakage will cause serious consequences.
The plum rains continued until the fourth day of June, and it rained for ten days. The entire Juchao County felt like it was soaked in water, everywhere was wet, sticky with sweat, and moldy.
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All the ponds and lakes in Juchao County have been flooded, and some fields have even experienced waterlogging. But this is not something that worries everyone. Waterlogging is not serious after all. If you do a good job in field management and dig deep field ditches to keep them smooth, it will be convenient.
The stored water can be allowed to drain away. Of course, the most worrying thing is the water level in Jiao Lake. It has risen very quickly during this period and has submerged the wave-proof forest and reached under the inner dam.
On the fifth day of June, the weather cleared up.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that God was still kind, and it finally stopped raining. Although the long-lost sunshine was scorching, at least it was no longer so hot and humid, and at least there was no need to worry about the water level of Jiao Lake rising.
Taking advantage of the strong sunshine, the common people took out their clothes and bedding to wash and dry them to get rid of the mildew. The curtains throughout Juchao City were fluttering, and clothes were hung on the rope windowsills, like festive colorful flags.
Everyone was thankful that the weather had cleared up. When the rain stopped, Li Hui fell into nervousness. Because Li Hui knew that the rainy season had not passed, but had moved westward inland along the Yangtze River. Juchao County
The biggest cause of floods is not caused by local rain. In most cases, it is caused by the backflow of water from the Yangtze River from the Ruxu River into Jiao Lake.
Rainwater moves westward along the Yangtze River, which means that the water level of the Yangtze River will surge and pour into Jiao Lake. This is the biggest danger.
On the early morning of July 1, early June, a heavy rain hit again.
At 4 o'clock, Li Hui frowned and stood at the entrance of the lobby, watching the heavy rain falling, feeling depressed and worried. At this moment, Zhou Che's figure hurriedly came through the rain curtain and rushed into the lobby with his body covered in rainwater.
During this period, Zhou Che led a team stationed on the Ruxu River embankment, paying close attention to changes in the water level of the Ruxu River. When he saw Zhou Che's figure, Li Hui suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Brother, why are you back?" Li Hui asked hurriedly.
Zhou Che took off his bamboo hat, and the rain poured down from it. He wiped the rainwater from his dark and thin face and replied loudly.
"The situation is not good. The water level of the Ruxu River has risen rapidly. It started to rise in the early morning. It has risen four feet in two hours and is close to the top of the flood discharge mound. I am worried that the river water has begun to pour back, so I will rush back as soon as daybreak. Come here
Report. According to the current situation, I am afraid that the flood discharge mound has begun to overflow at this moment. So I must rush back to report to you. At the same time, I also need manpower. I will call for people when I come back. I am afraid that the Ruxu River Embankment will not be able to hold it and the water will rise.
It's going very fast and the waves are big." Zhou Che said loudly.
When Li Hui heard this, he immediately ordered Jiang Sheng: "Get ready to hitch up the car, and order someone to notify the Flood Control Department and ask thirty people to follow us to the Ruxu River Embankment."
Jiang Sheng heard this and rushed to get ready. Li Hui returned to the back hall and started to change clothes. He needed to put on a raincoat and a bamboo hat. Although it was useless, it could at least block some rain.
Ah Zhu was a little panicked when she heard that Li Hui said that the water level of the Ruxu River had surged and that something was wrong. After helping Li Hui put on his coir raincoat and hat, he asked blankly: "Sir, will something happen?"
Li Hui smiled and said: "What can happen? There is a flood discharge area over there. The water will overflow, so nothing will happen. Just stay at home."
Azhu pouted, worried.
At noon, Li Hui, Zhou Che and others rushed to the Ruxu River embankment. The water level of the Ruxu River was frighteningly high. The water surface was already higher than the flood dam where Jiao Lake lived, and a large amount of river water was pouring into Jiao Lake.
The dike of the Ruxu River is not thick, because after all, it is just a dike leading to the Yangtze River, with a width of only two feet. At this moment, the river water is less than three feet from the top of the embankment. Looking at it, the water on the river is rushing, and the waves are rising.
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The rain was still pouring down, making the people unable to open their eyes or see far. Li Hui and others walked west along the river bank for four miles and arrived at the mouth of the flood discharge mound.
The flowing water from the flood discharge mound is already roaring. The three-foot-wide flood discharge mound was originally designed to discharge water from the high water level of the Ruxu River into the flood discharge area, thereby reducing the pressure on the river bank and the pressure of river water flowing back into Jiao Lake.
But at this moment, it was obvious that the three-foot-wide dike had no time to release the flood. The roaring water rushed down from the top of the flood discharge mound, and the huge impact drove a deep pit into the ditch below. The surrounding soil continued to peel off.
It is precisely because the drainage flow of the flood discharge hill is not large that the water in the entire Ruxu River rises rapidly, and the water poured into Jiao Lake becomes more and more violent. But there is nothing that can be done, and it can only be done in this way
In flood discharge, it is impossible to allow all the water in the Ruxu River to pour into the flood discharge area, which will cause all the fields in the entire Ruxu River Basin to be flooded.
The significance of dividing flood discharge areas is to protect the acres of land and villages that need to be preserved. If floods are flooded, the losses will be huge, and the significance of flood control is lost.
"Immediately strengthen the embankment and lay out wave bags. Conduct a comprehensive inspection of the east and west embankments." Li Hui immediately issued the order.
Hundreds of people took action to drive down wooden piles from the dikes on both sides of the flood discharge mound, fill sacks of soil to heighten the embankments, and lay grass nets to prevent waves. The position of the flood discharge mound is actually the most vulnerable to collapse, because the water on both sides is washed away by the water.
Dams are prone to collapse, so be sure to ensure they are safe.
By the end of the afternoon, the heavy rain turned into drizzle, and the pressure decreased slightly. In the flood discharge area, the water level has been rising, and the vast wilderness has become a vast expanse of white, including villages and fields and large areas on the south side of Ruxu Mountain.
The ground has been submerged. The flood discharge area has absorbed a large amount of flood water, which can be said to have played a certain role.
Due to the absorption of flood discharge and backflow, the water level of the Ruxu River is basically maintained at a high level, but no overflowing occurs.
But Li Hui knew that such a high water level and such huge pressure could cause the river embankment to collapse at any time. Unpredictable collapse would cause unpredictable losses of people and crops. We must find ways to reduce the pressure on the river embankment.
The only thing that can be done at this moment is to clear the blocking dam at the mouth of the lake to allow the river water to flow back into Jiao Lake at an accelerated rate. Although this will cause the water level of Jiao Lake to rise rapidly, several flood discharge areas in the Jiao Lake area will also share the pressure.
.And the huge dyke of Jiao Lake is stronger and more resistant to pressure than the Ruxu River dyke.
After discussing with Zhou Che, Li Hui and Zhou Che split up. Zhou Che took some people to the lake entrance to open the sluice blocking the lake entrance, allowing the river water to pour into the lake faster. Li Hui took people here to monitor the condition of the river embankment.
An hour later, the waterline of the Ruxu River began to slowly fall back. Although it was very slow, Li Hui knew that due to the accelerated speed of backflow, the pressure on the river bank had also been reduced a lot. The situation where the river water had almost overflowed to the top of the river bank had already been reduced.
Get better.
After working hard in the morning, everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief. They took out dry food and water, and sat on the muddy ground to satisfy their hunger and rest.
But before he could swallow a mouthful of pancake, a woman from the west embankment stumbled towards her, crying and wailing loudly.
"What's going on?" Li Hui quickly stood up and asked.
The woman ran forward, covered in mud and water, knelt down and kowtowed, crying: "County Magistrate Li, please save my Aweng and my mother. They are gone. There is water everywhere, and we can't find them."
When Li Hui asked, he found out that she was a woman from Sunjia Village in the flood discharge area. Originally, all the people in the flood discharge area had been evacuated and had a temporary settlement on the slopes of Ruxu Mountain. But it had been sunny in the past two days and everywhere
Everyone is saying that nothing will happen and nothing will happen this year.
So many people in Sunjia Village returned to the village and refused to listen to any dissuasion. Some elderly people, especially, were thinking about their vegetable fields and some crops, so they secretly returned to the village and wanted to harvest some. Who knew that the floods would surge sharply today?
Flood discharge began again. This time the whole area became a vast ocean.
People on the hillside panicked and tried to save people, but were blocked by the water. This woman married to another village and didn't know the situation. Only when she met people from the same village on the mountain did she know that her parents had returned to the village, and she was very anxious. Listen.
It is said that County Magistrate Li led people to prevent floods on the river embankment, so he risked his life and came down the mountain. He passed through waist-deep muddy water and was almost washed away by the water on the way.
After hearing this, Li Hui was really one of the best. Although he complained that these people did not listen to dissuasion, he could actually understand their feelings. It was their home, why didn't they miss it? When the flood came, everything was gone.
Why aren't they heartbroken?
Li Hui immediately led his people to rescue people. Fortunately, he brought bamboo rafts with him. At that time, more than a dozen people carried bamboo rafts and found a gentle river embankment to enter the water. They rowed the bamboo rafts to Sunjiazhuang to rescue people.