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A man paddles a boat carrying local residents through a flooded area in Banshan Cun, Zhejiang province June 17, 2011.
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A man fishes next to a broken levee where grape and strawberry fields were flooded in Banshan Cun, Zhejiang province on June 17. Pelting rain in parts of central and southern China has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and prompted the government to demand safety checks on vulnerable dams, news reports said on Thursday.
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A young boy watches the flood waters from the roof of his home in Laibin, southwest China's Guangxi province on June 16. China was pounded by more summer rain forcing the evacuation of more than 550,000 people, state media reported, warning of further downpours, while the number of people confirmed killed in more than a week of floods and landslides triggered by the torrential rains had leapt past 100.
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A man tries to salvage some belongings from his damaged home as flood water hit Laibin, southwest China's Guangxi province on June 16. China was pounded by more summer rain forcing the evacuation of more than 550,000 people, state media reported, warning of further downpours, while the number of people confirmed killed in more than a week of floods and landslides triggered by the torrential rains had leapt past 100.
From AP:
A flooded river in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years, the government said Friday as thousands of passenger were stranded after landslides buried parts of a railway line in the southwest.
Flooding in China over the past two weeks has left more than 170 people dead or missing and led to thousands of people leaving their homes in regions along the Yangtze River.
Rain-triggered landslides crushed parts of a railway line in southwestern China, stranding 5,000 passengers on four trains overnight and affecting train service, local railway authorities said Friday.
Over 2,000 rescuers with 10 excavators rushed to clear the Chengdu-Kunming railway, which links the provincial capitals of Sichuan and Yunnan, the Chengdu Railway Bureau said in a statement, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
The bureau has sent food and water to the trapped passengers, and buses to evacuate them, the statement said.
In eastern Zhejiang, the province's main river is at its highest level since 1955, China's flood control agency said. The Qiantang River was 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) above safety levels, it said.
Elsewhere in the coastal province, a dike breached and flooded 18 villages while landslides toppled about 2,500 houses and flooded 350 roads, Xinhua said. This week's rains have also forced 120,000 residents in Zhejiang to leave their homes.
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And so many still think global warning has nothing to do with human activities. When you stop and think how thin Earth's layer of life supporting air really is, (less than K2 mountain) we are in serious trouble fellow Earthlings. No place to go to import air. How is it that so many can't see what is happening. Are the commercials and con job for carbon based energy REALLY that good. Shell Oil, Mobile Exxon, and all the other driller/refiners some how are turning a blind eye to the facts for one reason. MONEY in their bank accounts. The real odd thing is, when the damage is done to a point of no return, the lack of safe life supporting air will cause them to gasp for air just like the rest. Humans are a self destructive creature...
OK, nobody has a comment. I wonder if it is because this is China and they can't see China very well from the hole they have their head in. I can tell people about the weather changes caused by our human activities. BUT it has fallen on ears full of sand from the hole. Soon enough, the hole will be made big enough for all human life gone wrong. The problem is not just greed for money, lust of power, or the old excuse of I found it this way. We as humans have built in addictions, and we use sex to feed one. Not a bad thing really, but when over population results and we don't stop at some point, then the addiction has become a problem. Our population problem has caused the carbon energy problem. We can't plant enough trees to scrub the air clean so we need to slow down on the reproduction that makes the demand. We live on a very small island (EARTH) and we have only so much food and water to allow us to survive. It is nuts to allow more human births than we can support. Take your heads out of the hole, open your eyes, and take a look around. You will see that we are ALL rushing down the same path at the same speed. At the end of the path, hungry, thirsty, people will all be gasping for clean air. It sounds nasty, and I chose the words to make the point. Same con job Big Oil Company use to sell you. Words to sell, yes Oil words are easy to read and don't paint a bad image in your mind. Hard to make this message pleasant. HELP !!!
Jodi Foster said "is anyone out there" I think not for long.
Be happy, screw your neighbor and make more just like yourself.
My comments here do reflect the photos. 1.5 billion people that mostly look like each other. They will be the first to reach the end of the path, and maybe it's not a bad thing either.
Why the river design change by man, why so many people, waves in a river that big is wrong!?!?