China has experienced some of the worst flooding this year in over a 10 years. The floods have caused the deaths of 701 people and there are another 347 that haven’t been found.
According to the China Daily, the newspaper run by the state, the flooding this year has resulted in $21 billion dollars in damage.
Rising waters have pushed the flood wall reinforcements to their limit. The govenment of China has plans to reinforce the flood walls at all the smaller reservoirs.
There are approximately 81,000 small reservoirs in China. So far there have been 9200 strengthened but many of of smaller ones need work done on them and reinforced also.
Most of the damages from the flooding is found in the north eastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin. To help stranded people the civil affairs department has sent supplies of tents and quilts.
Now Chanthu made landfall on Thursday This is the third typhoon this time of year for the southern parts of China. With it has come winds of 71 miles per hour.
The already saturated parts of China could get another 20 inches of rain from Chanthu.
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