6 Dark Night
After the reports were evaluated and processed, the various departments of the country began to deal with them as quickly as possible, in order to minimize the harm.
However, in the face of this huge disaster, the once powerful and bloated state machine seemed so small, and there seemed to be a shortage everywhere.
In the 30 minutes after the dam broke, the head of the front peak had already left the dam for more than 60 kilometers. The head of the water was still 80 to 90 meters high. All kinds of debris floated on the water surface and rushed down the slope at an extremely fast speed, smashing into everything in front of it. They were covered by the debris that came later and rolled between the bottom of the water and the head of the water. Every few kilometers, they seemed to float up again and began the next wave of impact. It went on repeatedly.
The extremely fast water current could wash away stones the size of a room. All kinds of debris, big and small, were like a huge millstone grinding everything on the ground. No matter what obstacles were, they were slowly ground into gravel, sand, or even mud, leaving the hardest solid to continue flowing down with the water current. Destroy everything with unstoppable power.
At this moment, after half an hour, the water head had passed through the north and south banks, which were ten to thirty kilometers wide. It was rapidly spreading to the two banks. As the terrain here was still in the mountainous and hilly areas, the momentum of the super flood did not decrease much. However, it would not take long for it to reach the plains, and the harm would be even greater.
Time slowly passed. Various reports and data were being input into the supercomputer to simulate. At the same time, the results of the simulation were being continuously broadcasted to the entire country and the entire world.
Ruan Linlin and the white man's car first shook from the high-speed impact airflow, then went through the direct exposure of the high-temperature fireball, and even experienced the pouring of boiling water. However, in front of the carefully selected driver, they continued to drive steadily north until a huge hail fell from the sky and hit the roof of the car. In a few minutes, the road was covered with a thick layer, forcing the car to stop. F * ck you two guys and one girl. They were already numb from the shock, because in their organization's version, they had never calculated that such weather would produce such a terrifying effect. However, all the shock could not hide the excitement on their faces.
The three people in the car looked at each other. The excitement in their hearts was indescribable. The Caucasian man quietly looked at Ruan Linlin and kissed her gently. Then, they rolled together as if there was no one else around. Soon, the driver joined in the act...
Outside the car, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Hail fell from time to time. The extremely heavy rain blurred the world outside the car window...
At this moment, Yuan Huawei and the others who were more than ten kilometers downstream of the dam had survived a round of intense hail and hot rain. Less than half of them survived. The heat in the sky slowly turned cold until it was cold. Everyone was so cold that they trembled. Fortunately, at least half of them survived.
In the pitch-black rain, all the survivors were waiting silently, waiting for the dark and terrifying monster to devour their lives, or waiting for the dawn to come.
Time continued to flow, as unstoppable as a torrential flood.
An hour after the dam burst (01:16:57 Beijing time), the television reported the disaster for this hour: The head of the first peak had already entered the Jingzhou Plain along the river. The three kilometers of water head contours were nearly 50 to 60 meters (there were several wave walls in front of the water flow). The speed of the water flow in the front peak was nearly 80 kilometers per hour. The widest part of the water surface was nearly 100 kilometers. The head spreading to the surroundings was much lower. Compared to the flat ground, it was still a few meters high. The main force of the head vanguard had already advanced more than 100 kilometers along the river, but it was still unstoppable.
Weather: As the region had been in the intersection of cold and warm air flow for the past few days, the weather disturbance in the core area of the big explosion was unusually intense. The shock wave and the shock wave generated by the explosion moved along the nearby high and low hills in a wave-like motion. The nimbus clouds covering the surface of the ground also moved up and down. As a result, there was an uncontrollable rapid shear. The weather change was even more intense than that of midsummer. There was heavy rain, hail, and strong wind. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Blizzards that could not even be seen appeared in some mountainous areas, causing unprecedented natural geological disasters. There were countless mountain torrents, mudflows, and landslides in the core area.
The houses, trees, and farmlands were in ruins. All of this had happened repeatedly in just a few hours. This extreme and sudden destructive power had seriously affected the lives of the local people.
The super catastrophic rainfall in the core area reached an average of 800 millimeters. In a short period of time, a huge flash flood had formed, causing mudflows and landslides, completely blocking all means of transportation to the outside world. Now, the original safe zone defined by the core area was already an " island " that was not contaminated by the poisonous liquid.
After the extreme weather changes, it was estimated that at least three million people in the area of nearly ten million people were killed (including Yichang City, which was completely washed away). The rainfall in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River was increasing. The area of heavy rain and rainstorm was vast. The total amount of rainfall within 100 kilometers of the core disaster area had reached 12 billion cubic meters. Within 60 kilometers of the core area, there were more than 6.5 billion cubic meters, and the rain was still falling.
Evacuation: Due to the weather and widespread power failure, all communication networks on the ground have been cut off in the heart of the disaster zone. It's a dead zone (including networks and information) with little chance of rescue. There's no way to command an evacuation. [The notification states that unless absolutely necessary, please remain in the safest place and wait for rescue. You must ensure your safety and do not leave the safe zone!]）。
In the river valley area about 200 km downstream of the Three Gorge Dam, due to the high population density and the influence of strong weather factors, the traffic capacity of various roads was almost reduced to the worst. Most of the roads were seriously crowded. Due to the rush of time, there were a lot of people and vehicles. Everyone wanted to move to a safe place as soon as possible. The scene was extremely chaotic. The army and the government often had conflicts with individuals and temporary groups over the road. Inevitably, it caused an intense man-made conflict, and the evacuation was very difficult.
Some people and groups began to go to the extreme. If they couldn't walk, they would stop others from walking, set up roadblocks, and destroy roads. The army had already destroyed nearly a thousand such extremely selfish groups.
The further downstream they went, because the flood came later, the better the situation was, and the evacuation work was relatively smoother. Under the control of the government and the military, the areas below Dongting Lake had begun to move into a relatively stable evacuation order. Some government agencies, individuals, and groups had begun to dismantle and dismantle high-value machinery and equipment as much as possible. The evacuation below Poyang Lake was orderly. The government, the military, and enterprises had actively organized personnel to take away any machinery and equipment that could be dismantled and disassembled when they evacuated, so as to minimize losses as much as possible.
In terms of disasters, because Yichang City was closest to the dam, there was very little time to react when the disaster occurred. It could be said that there was no time at all. Therefore, the disaster was the most serious. The survival rate of the urban population was less than 100%.(At this moment, the broadcast stopped for three seconds and simulated the disaster scene in this city again.)
Every hour after the dam breach, important events and data will be broadcasted.
As of 01:16:57 Beijing time, the government statistics department had confirmed that a total of 1,479,203 people had died, nearly three million people were disabled due to direct or indirect reasons, and more than 130 million people were missing. According to the Beidou Data Control Center's security verification, there were more than 70 million basic clients that did not reply. Based on the average of two people holding one basic client). It was estimated that nine million people might have died, and it was the most conservative number. According to Beidou's data center network, more than three million basic client signals disappeared.
At this moment, the venue of the Spring Festival Gala was quiet. The people in China in front of their televisions were also quiet. Perhaps the people in the world were also quiet, but the news media in the world had already exploded. Perhaps it was at the moment of the big explosion that the news media had exploded.
After each disaster report, a new broadcast began on the television screen:
Those who received the security confirmation message from Beidou Data Center, please reply to it as soon as possible. Beidou's data center would conduct a new round of statistics.
In addition, for the first time, the data center would use positioning navigation on a large scale to provide navigation guidance for the evacuation of dangerous areas in disaster-stricken areas and broadcast important announcements at all times. From this moment on, all information to and from the disaster area would be free. The ground network caused by the blackout had triggered the automatic operation of the Beidou network system. He could use Beidou to send and receive messages.
At this moment, Yuan Huawei was holding the little girl he had saved from his neighbor's house. Suddenly, he felt his arms move.
Could it be that there was a signal on the phone? He excitedly placed the child on the safe ground beside him. He and her mother were trembling as they wrapped the heavy and flowing blanket around the child in the middle. He pressed his phone with one hand and saw that there was still no signal. At this moment, his phone vibrated again. He pulled down the message bar. There were four messages from Beidou's data center. The four messages were all security messages waiting for him to confirm. He immediately replied with a "confirmed security" and wrote a new message: There are more than 80 people trapped on the top of the mountain. Many have died and more than 10 have been injured. They lack clothes and food. They are in urgent need of help. Please come and rescue them. (The basic version of Big Dipper can only write 35 Chinese character sections.)
Three seconds later, he received a reply." The road is blocked. Rescue cannot arrive. Please wait and save yourself. Do not approach the river. It is poisonous." please understand
After that, he received a few more notifications from the Spring Festival Gala and realized the seriousness of the matter.
He slowly calmed down. Through the thick rain column, he quietly looked at the invisible river surface, even though the river surface was more than ten meters in front of him.
The night was even darker, and the rain was also extremely dark. He quietly looked at the river, the night, and everything…
The rain continued to fall, and the area affected by the blackout continued to expand. In the end, as the inundation area expanded, one-third of the country's area was cut off due to the interruption of cross-regional transmission lines. 60% of the population lived in darkness, and no one in the country complained about the blackout. They were silently enduring all this, enduring this endless darkness.
As the Spring Festival Gala was broadcasted, the night quietly came to an end. However, the sky was still very dark, so dark that it made people feel incomparable fear and endless anger.
Five hours after the big explosion: 05:16:57 Beijing time," The water head has entered Dongting Lake. The largest water head drop in the lake area is about 30 meters, and the water level of Dongting Lake is rapidly rising. Due to the discharge of toxic water from other contaminated reservoirs at the same time, a huge amount of water has been collected. The surface of the lake has quickly exceeded the largest recorded area in history, and it is still expanding.
Due to the diversion of Dongting Lake, the head drop of the front peak of the Yangtze River was decreasing, but in some places, the head drop was still 30 to 40 meters...
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Six hours after the big explosion: Beijing time 06:16:57. The head of the first peak was 14.8 meters. As it had passed through Fanyang Lake and the river plains, the head would drop further, and the speed would drop to about 50 kilometers per hour. 17 billion cubic meters of water had been taken out of the Three Gorge Reservoir, with about 20 billion cubic meters remaining (the heavy rainfall continued to flow in on a large scale, and nearly 10 billion cubic meters of water had been added to the flooded area). Due to the large-scale and high-intensity rainfall in the core area, the scale of the mountain torrents and mudflows was extremely large, and the destructive power was extremely strong. The 600-kilometer-long reservoir still had a total drop of 30 to 40 meters, and the total flow rate out of the reservoir was less than 70 kilometers per hour. It was estimated that the water level in most areas of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River would slowly drop after a day. Within three days, 90% of the land would see the light of day again, and nearly 10% of the land would completely return to the original water level in the next three to ten days.
Weather: Except for some areas in the core area, there will be heavy rain for a short period of time. The rainfall in other parts has moved eastward and become smaller. The rain belt with an average of 1,600 millimeters of rainfall in the core area continues to move eastward. Although the intensity of the storm has decreased overall, the area of the rainstorm belt will continue to expand. It is estimated that 40 billion cubic meters of water will directly enter the flooded areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the next 24 hours. The eastward shift of the rain belt was very detrimental to the work of the government organizations.
Evacuation data: According to the Beidou data center, 78.2% of the evacuation work in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River had been completed. The remaining people were basically unwilling to leave, or thought that they had reached a self-righteous safety zone. They even deliberately avoided the government's evacuation work. It was not excluded that some people were coerced and could not leave. The government was conducting a search and rescue.
Casualties: According to Beidou data center data, 1.47 million basic terminal signals were lost, and 4.75 million basic terminal signals were lost. According to the statistics of various government departments, it was confirmed that 8.31 million people had died, 14.2 million people had lost contact, and 79 million people had basically been evacuated to the safe zone. There were about 20 million people to be confirmed. Among them, the Yangtze River basin accounted for 91%, and the rest of the country accounted for about 9%.
Slowly, the eastern part of the ancient continent began to shine. Occasionally, a tiny ray of sunlight penetrated the clouds and shone on the sea-like water surface. Night was finally about to pass.
That night, the people of the country waited silently in front of their televisions, or in front of Beidou data on their phones, or running all the way to find a safe place.
They were going to live this unforgettable New Year, this New Year that would be remembered. This wasn't the new year.
On this dark night. The vast majority of people had spent their days in sleepless grief.
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