It got a bit wet last night. I don’t mean it was just raining. This was real rain. No pussyfooting about deciding whether to rain or not. Not a bit damp. Not shall I take my umbrella? Your umbrella would have done no good. This was a truly torrential tropical rainstorm battering the city from [...]
It’s been a bit quiet round here. In the sense of not much happening. It’s never quiet in the sense of no noise. The last three to four weeks has seen utterly miserable weather – the worst being on Tuesday this week. So, apart from brief raids on the supermarket for essential sustenance, I have been [...]
Here we are again. It's been a bit quiet round here lately. Mainly because I haven't been outside the house for weeks except for emergency beer supplies etc. It has been raining again. Here we are in the middle of flood season once again and all we can do is sit it out. Or, if [...]
Back in the summer, the day after the floods were at their worst, I was contacted by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian's Asia Environment Correspondent who was interested in visiting Liuzhou. He arrived, along with Swiss photographers, Mathias Braschler and Monica Fischer and fellow journalist / interpreter, Chen Shi while I acted as a guide (and [...]
Now that the water level has fallen back to near normal levels, the big cleanup has begun. Local residents have been joined by the military to clear up the mud and debris from the flooding. Until next time.
Well, it has finally stopped raining. For now. So, this morning I managed to get out. The flooding is much worse than I thought. Possibly the worst since 1996 when almost all the city was under water. The river reached a peak of 89.62 metres (7.12 metres above the danger level) at 10 pm last [...]
It's a bit damp round these parts. We are getting regular text messages warning of the rising water level in the river. Last night at 8 pm, it was at 83.13 metres. Today, at 1 pm, it was at 88.30 metres, which is 5.80 metres higher than what is considered to be the danger level. [...]
Hardly a week goes by without a report of a mine accident somewhere in China. Yesterday, we received reports that 56 people are trapped in a flooded mine in Guangxi. The accident, caused by flooding, has happened in Tiandong county of Baise (Bose) in the west of Guangxi. Associated Press kindly illustrates the story by [...]
Here is an excerpt from Liuzhou Television’s report on the recent floods. It was broadcast on Monday, the 16th of June 2008.
Isn’t it typical? Less than a week after informing you that the likelihood of an earthquake in Liuzhou was very low, we only go and have an earthquake. According to local newspapers, Liuzhou experienced a force 2.3 earthquake at 6:06 yesterday morning. Of course, I was sound asleep and missed it completely. Liuzhou City Seismological Bureau have reported that no damage [...]
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