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The historical cases of storm surge in Yangtze River delta region

2018-02-01  |   Editor : jiping  
Category : Natural Sciences

(1) In the storm surge of October 21st, 669 (September 18th ), the sea water turned over, ruined 6843 houses of people in Wenzhou and Ruian, killed 9070 people, 500 cows and damaged field 4150 hectares. In the same time, there was rainstorm in Lishui.

(2) August 24th, 726 (July 19th) storm surge. There was strong wind in Runzhou (Zhenjiang) and Guazhou was drowned; the flood in Suzhou ruined people’s houses; the tides surged in Haizhou (Lian Yungang) and people were immersed in water; the strong wind in Cangzhou sinked dozens of ships and 5000dan food. People on the ship were all dead. Huai (Xinyang, Henan province), Wei (Ji xian), Zheng, Hua, Bian (Kaifeng), Fu (old town in northern part of Juancheng), Xu (Chang) and many other areas all met heavy rain and the river and tributaries all overflowed. People lived in ships and thousands of people died, property and crops were all damaged. In autumn, 50 states encountered floods and disasters in Henan, Hebei province were much more serious. Many houses in Chang, Fu and some other states were ruined and the emperor dispatched a censor to provide relief to people in disaster areas.

On the night of July 22nd, 1081 (the ninth day of July), there was strong wind and heavy rain in Jinghai, Jiangbei (Nantong city). It ruined 2763 houses; the strong sea wind drowned Taizhou and damaged thousands of dwellings; the rivers in Kunshan, Jiangnan overflowed and more than half of the residential buildings fell and Confucious’s temple all collapsed; more than half of the bridges in Wujiang were damaged and around millions of people died; the flood in Suzhou submerged residential buildings and the overflow of Taihu made people around it die or disappear; thousands of mansions and folk houses in Changzhou were damaged; strong wind and heavy rain in Danyang submerged residential houses and buildings; wind agitation in Dantu and Yizheng ruined houses around the river coast and crops.

(4)the storm surge on the night of September 18th,1166. Wenzhou Sea was overflowing and half of the city wall was immersed. In a short time, the houses were destroyed consequently. The Yanchang, Longshuo temple were all submerged. The whole city looked like a mighty ocean. When the tide set, the dead floating body covered the land, only one in ten survived. There were near thousands of people in Renzhou, Yongjia. However, only 200 people left after the diaster and the death rate is about 96% supposed that there were 5 people in every family; in Ruian, Pingyang, Leqing, the situation were the same. People had to eat wet crops and dead cows; in Haimen, the hurricane, accompanied with heavy rain, became stronger in 19-23 p.m. The typhoon uprooted trees and blowed buildings away, stores and monk all looked at each other desperately. The disaster has drowned more than 20,000 people, with more than 7000 skeleton floating on the river. At the time, the national supervision commanded common people to tell the situation to superior government and ask for the dispatch of government relief.

(5) The storm surge on September 8th, 1229 (July 22nd). The sea water came from the southeast along the Lingjiang, together with the inundation of autumn and Shifeng xi and Yongan xi, met at the city of Haicheng and drowned people in Kuocangmen as well as the Juechonghemen. The water was in 17 feet depth and more than 20,000 people died. The sundries covered the river, blocked the port and stayed there for three days.

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