Footage of thousands of vehicles, planes & houses swept away by floods in Beijing, China today

Footage of thousands of vehicles, planes & houses swept away by floods in Beijing, China today The Chinese capital Beijing has experienced heavy rains for several consecutive days, flooding hundreds of streets and also flooding the Forbidden tens of thousands of people were evacuated overnight, hundreds were trapped and at least 11 people died in the by typhoon “Du Su Rui“, Beijing has experienced several consecutive days of record-breaking heavy rains since Saturday July 29, which severely affected the lives of the city’s 22 million internet and social media in China are filled with images of torrential rains flooding streets and cars being swept away by raging floodwaters.A video shows that even the Forbidden City, which hasn’t been flooded in the last 600 years, has the most knee-deep water. In the Mentougou district, where rainfall is heaviest, rescuers found the remains of two victims in a river during emergency also pulled hundreds of people from the water in other parts of Beijing. According to a report by Reuters, heavy rains caused by typhoon “Dusuri“ caused flooding not only in Beijing, but also in Tianjin and the Hebei province surrounding affected area is almost equivalent to the whole of the , according to the report of the Central Meteorological Observatory of China, “Du Su Rui“ has weakened to a tropical depression, and the winds also continue to decrease. Three of the five major tributaries of the Haihe River, one of northern China’s major rivers, reached dangerous alert levels on the influence of the flood, some houses flowed into the Yongding River, one of the tributaries of the Haihe Baoding city, Hebei province, authorities evacuated 55,000 residents from their homes overnight, Chinese state media “ is one of the most powerful typhoons China has experienced for many years.“Du Su Rui“ first landed in Fujian Province in southeast China. The wind and floods have caused great damage not only to the territory but also to the provinces and cities along the way north, causing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Saturday evening to Monday afternoon in Beijing, the average rainfall was 176.9 mm, and the average rainfall in Mentougou District was 322.1 heaviest rainfall occurred in the Mentougou Alpine rose garden, with rainfall of up to 580.9 millimeters (23 in).The Beijing Meteorological Observatory issued the highest-level red storm warning signal in the region on Monday, and the Beijing Hydrological Station updated and issued the highest-level red flood warning signal on Monday at Saturday to Monday, heavy rains fell continuously in many places, breaking historical daily rainfall records at 14 weather stations in Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong, Beijing. more than 31,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, more than 4,000 construction sites have been closed, nearly 20,000 buildings have been inspected for fear of damage, and all tourist attractions in the city have been than 200 flights were canceled at two Beijing airports on Monday afternoon and nearly 600 more were authorities have sent people to distribute instant noodles, eggs, ham sausage and drinking water to passengers on trains who have been trapped reported that heavy rains damaged or degraded 358 roads in Beijing as of Hebei province, two trucks fell from a collapsed bridge in Baoding into a river on Sunday and the driver is still missing. And in Shijiazhuang, part of the freight railway was washed away by a rapidly growing Monday afternoon, rumors and videos circulated on the Internet that Beijing’s historic Marco Polo Bridge had collapsed due to thunderstorms and impacts.
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