Chapter 230 Heavy rain sieges the city

A once-in-a-century heavy rain came unexpectedly, with more than 80 millimeters of precipitation falling overnight. The heavy rain turned the entire Haizhou City into a swamp, all public transportation systems were paralyzed, and there were more than a dozen serious water accumulations in the city. The casualties are currently

It's impossible to calculate statistics, but the worst cases are in the eastern part of the old city.

After Chen Mingzhi, secretary of the municipal party committee, learned of the situation, he temporarily canceled the municipal party committee meeting and rushed to the old city where the disaster was most severe.

"The Municipal Party Committee Secretary is here." Many reporters knew Chen Mingzhi's car. When they saw the car approaching from a distance, they all swarmed over.

As soon as Chen Mingzhi got out of the car, a reporter put the long interview microphone in front of his mouth and asked, "Secretary Chen, I didn't expect you to arrive at the scene at the first time. I want to ask if you have had breakfast."

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In fact, this reporter also wanted to flatter Chen Mingzhi. If Chen Mingzhi said casually that I had not eaten breakfast yet and that I had postponed the meeting and came here, an article praising his virtues would appear in Haizhou Daily that day.

But at this moment, Chen Mingzhi was so anxious that he was blocked by someone when he got out of the car. He was already unhappy, and now he asked such a half-baked question.

"What kind of breakfast? Which newspaper are you a reporter for? How many victims are trapped at home waiting for rescue? You ask me if I have breakfast? Your conscience has been eaten by a dog?"

The reporter didn't expect Chen Mingzhi to speak so bluntly. His face turned red immediately and he said awkwardly, "No, Secretary Chen, I, I, I, I just want to know if you are here in a hurry..."

"I know what you are going to say!" Chen Mingzhi said with a stern face, "A heavy rain that has never happened in a century is a natural disaster. But such severe flooding in the city is a man-made disaster! It was not until after going to work in the morning that the relevant departments of the city launched disaster relief work. This

This is a serious dereliction of duty! Well, there are a large number of victims waiting for rescue and reporting, go and interview them."

While they were talking, many officials from the old city came over and led Chen Mingzhi to the area that was flooded.

Before Chen Mingzhi, the Urban Construction Bureau, Taxation Bureau, Meteorological Bureau and other relevant departments had already arrived. Everyone stood in ankle-deep water and held an on-site meeting.

Chen Mingzhi asked, "How is the situation now?"

An expert from the Meteorological Bureau said, "Secretary Chen, that's it. A heavy rain last night started at 18:00 in the evening and continued until 8:00 this morning. The average rainfall in the city exceeded 68 mm. According to our meteorology, even if it exceeds 50 mm,

It's a heavy rain, so

This time Haizhou experienced heavy rainfall in the city. The highest rainfall was in the old city, exceeding 80 millimeters. This is already a once-in-a-hundred-year event. We checked and found that in the history of Haizhou City, the rainfall exceeded this level in the Qing Dynasty.

During the Jiaqing period, more than a hundred years ago..."

When Chen Mingzhi heard this, he became furious and said angrily, "Do you know what I don't want to hear the most today?" Everyone saw that his face was not good and they did not dare to speak. Chen Mingzhi said word by word, "The thing I don't want to hear the most today is

Once in a century!”

Everyone was unable to hold their heads up. Chen Mingzhi added, "What is behind these four words? It is that our officials want to shirk responsibility! Because it happens once in a hundred years, our municipal projects can be unqualified; because it happens once in a hundred years."

encounter, so the stagnant water here can be ignored

Because it happens once in a hundred years, ordinary people should soak in the water! And that expert from the Meteorological Bureau, what is your name? At this time, you should be thinking about disaster relief and reporting on the weather in the next few days, and

Not to find out how much water fell more than a hundred years ago!"

The expert's face turned red and he was at a loss as he grabbed the materials he had prepared.

The heads of other departments present were secretly complaining. Seeing Chen Mingzhi acting like this, I am afraid that many people will be in trouble due to this incident.

While they were talking, Mayor Xu Shaoyang came over.

Xu Shaoyang thought to himself that he was a little late today, and the limelight was stolen by Chen Mingzhi. The secretary beside him reminded, "Mayor Xu, is there water ahead?"

Xu Shaoyang rolled his eyes at the secretary, stepped into the water with his newly bought black leather shoes and white socks, and ran towards Chen Mingzhi. When he saw everyone here looked unhappy, Xu Shaoyang said, "Secretary Chen, the matter of pursuing responsibility will be temporarily suspended.

, let’s discuss disaster relief first, after all, many people are still at home waiting to be evacuated, there is no need to delay.”

Although Xu Shaoyang arrived a step late, with these words, he immediately took the initiative.

He Tiantian, commander of the military division, said, "We have mobilized all soldiers and reserves to participate in the rescue and transfer of people in the disaster area, but the assault boats we need now are still not enough! Not enough! We did not consider these in advance and did not prepare enough assault boats.

, this is my dereliction of duty."

Xu Shaoyang said, "I can't blame you, Lao He. After all, there has never been such serious waterlogging in Haizhou's history."

Chen Mingzhi said, "I have already reported to Jiangcheng that the province will urgently support us with a batch of assault boats, which will arrive within three hours."

The director of the Water Affairs Bureau said, "We have urgently mobilized 120 high-power water pumps to prepare to pump water from the waterlogged area near the Baishui River into the Baishui River for discharge."

The person in charge of the fire brigade said, "Our fire fighters can also participate in pumping water."

Everyone worked together and the scene became busy immediately. Chen Mingzhi finally said, "Time is urgent, so I won't say more. The last thing I want to say is that responsibility must be investigated, but credit must also be rewarded, especially those who are responsible for the incident.

You strive to be punished and make meritorious service!"

"Yes, yes, yes." The heads of the relevant departments breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took care of the things in hand.

Many of the people around here dispersed. When Chen Mingzhi raised his head, his eyes narrowed. He happened to see a young man in a police uniform not far away arguing with someone on an assault boat.

Xu Shaoyang also noticed it, and thought that this man named Chu was really elusive, and he could be seen wherever something happened. However, at this time, this guy was still delaying other people's disaster relief. He would definitely want to use this to disgust Chen Mingzhi.

"Isn't that Xiao Chu?" Xu Shaoyang said to Chen Mingzhi, and then ordered, "Call Xiao Chu over."

Chu Tianji had seen Chen Mingzhi and the others a long time ago, but he was too embarrassed to come over. After all, he just had sex with his daughter last night, so he felt guilty.

Now Xu Shaoyang sent someone to call, and Chu Tianji ran over and said with a smile, "Secretary Chen and Mayor Xu, you are all here."

Xu Shaoyang smiled and said, "Xiao Chu, why are you here for disaster relief? But I'm not telling you, everyone is busy with disaster relief and evacuating the victims, but I just saw you pulling someone's assault boat and refusing to give

Let’s go, if this is photographed by a reporter and posted on Weibo, it will be bad for the image of our civil servants in Haizhou City and even Secretary Chen’s reputation.”

Chen Mingzhi was furious and thought, "Tell Chu Tianji, why are you taking me with you? He is not my son-in-law!"

But Chen Mingzhi couldn't help it, everyone in the city's system now believed that Chu Tianji was his son-in-law. Xu Shaoyang's knock on Chu Tianji was a knock on Chen Mingzhi.

Chu Tianji is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he can see the reason behind it at a glance. But he has no time to break up with Xu Shaoyang now, so he said, "Mayor Xu, you misunderstood. That's it. The martyr old man in our bureau

He's grandson is in the disaster area. Now the child has a high fever. I want to coordinate an assault boat to rescue people. Originally, that person had agreed, but now that you have called him, he has left again."

After hearing this, Chen Mingzhi felt much better. This "son-in-law" did not embarrass himself. He said again, "Right now, the assault boats are limited, and we use the method of advancing in areas to save people, but the situation you mentioned is a bit special.

I'll arrange for one to be sent to you."

While talking, Chu Tianji received another call from Lao He's son, saying that they had found the assault boat and came out. Chu Tianji felt relieved, put down the phone and said, "No need to make arrangements, they have found the assault boat."

After a while, I saw an assault boat approaching, but far away, suddenly the assault boat stopped moving. Chu Tianji called over, and Lao He's son said, "That's it, the bottom of the assault boat is stuck.

It’s here, I don’t know what to put it on.”

Chu Tianji said, "I'll go." After saying that, he took off his police uniform and pants and was thinking about where to put them when Chen Mingzhi said, "I'll hold them for you."
Chapter completed!