day17
A day and a night passed, and the rain showed no signs of letting up.
The weather station has begun issuing frequent precipitation warnings, just like the high temperature warnings issued earlier.
[Homeowners' Chat Group]
...99+ historical messages
Mom of a baby in Building 2: Is it true that the property management has notified residents on the first, second, and third floors to move to higher floors?
Qingqing from Building 1: Didn't you see the government's notice? Yesterday, my husband wanted to park the car in a higher place, but he couldn't find a parking space at all!
Wu Yanzu from Building 2: Listen to advice and you'll eat your fill. I think everyone should follow the property management's arrangements.
Old Huang from Building 3: You make it sound so simple, but what are we, as a large family, supposed to do? The property management only provides us with unfinished apartments that no one lives in. If we move in, we'll have trouble making a living.
Takeshi Kaneshiro from Building 2: Look how strange this rain is! What if it continues for ten days or more, just like the heatwave?
Building 2, Louis Koo: Forgive my bluntness, but our high temperatures are far from over.
Mr. Liu from Building 1: Don't worry about the hassle, saving your life is the priority. My apartment is on the fourth floor, and I'm afraid the water will flood up there. I've applied to the property management to rent a place. The property management said they're prioritizing the first, second, and third floors, and they can only allocate rooms to other floors once there are vacancies.
Chen Fang from Building 8: The sooner I move in, the sooner I can settle in. I'll stay for a few days, and if the rain stops, I'll come back. If the rain doesn't stop, by the time I want to move, there won't be any good apartments left, and I might have to share a room with someone else.
Li Jian from Building 6: Sigh, who understands? Just a couple of days ago I was saying how lucky my parents are that they have mobility issues and bought a low-floor apartment, which saved them from the fire. Now we have to move to a higher floor.
Lin's mother from Building 5: Life is all about making a fuss.
Ronghua Supermarket Owner: @All members, this is the last day of the supermarket clearance sale. I'm locking up tomorrow and taking my wife and kids to stay with my father-in-law.
Brother Liu from Building 11: Boss, are you getting ready to leave?
Mr. Li from Building 12: What should we do with the cars in our garage? Doesn't the property management have a solution?
Old Huang from Building 3: The property management staff are too busy to manage everything, so where would we get the air traffic control vehicle?
Lin's mother from Building 5: Oh dear, I feel so tightness in my chest, and I can't sleep at all listening to the rain. When will this awful situation ever end?
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Xia Ning thought to herself that it was fortunate that her home was on the 8th floor, so she didn't have to worry about flooding for the time being.
She shook her head as she looked at some stubborn people in the group who were making all sorts of excuses not to move and even trying to persuade others not to move with them.
If you don't want to move now, you might not have the chance to change your mind.
In fact, when Xia Ning woke up this morning, she found that the floodwater outside had already reached the first-floor steps.
It's estimated that within half a day, it will submerge an adult's knees.
No parents dare to let their children go out to play anymore. Yesterday, so many people were celebrating in the community square, but today you can only see a few scattered staff members braving the rain to move around the community, and residents on the ground floor carrying supplies back and forth.
The residents on the first floor are the first to be affected, and those with open balconies have already experienced water seepage in their homes.
Regardless of their complaints or resentment, they swiftly began to move.
The vast majority of people were assigned to the newly developed second phase of the project, which was recently completed. Almost all the buyers were still in the renovation stage and no one had moved in yet.
This is why the residents on the second and third floors, clinging to a侥幸心理 (a sense of wishful thinking), are reluctant to move in.
Not to mention that there's no place like home.
They say that the place is either a bare-bones house without even a toilet, or a house filled with formaldehyde after renovation.
Some people choose a compromise: lock the furniture in an empty high-rise apartment and take their valuables to a high-rise hotel for a couple of days.
Everyone began to pray silently that the heavy rain would stop soon.
The old people stood with their hands behind their backs, gazing worriedly at the sky, which seemed to have a hole in it; this year's crops were all ruined.
Despite the government's repeated emphasis on having grain reserves, how long can the stored grain last for the entire nation in an emergency?
They cannot forget the disasters of the past.
Xia Ning heard from Jiang Yuan in the evening that the two elderly people in Li Jian's family in Building 6 had passed away.
Jiang Yuan made a subtle gesture, telling Xia Ning, "They left a suicide note saying: they've lived enough and can't be a burden to the next generation."
Even Xia Ning, who had gone through a round of brutal selection, couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
A few days ago, Li Jian was talking about how his family had turned misfortune into good fortune; just a few hours ago, Li Jian was still saying in the group that he was preparing to move with his parents who had difficulty walking.
Jiang Yuan said with a bitter face, "I heard Li Jian is almost going crazy. He thinks it's because his parents overheard his casual complaints that he... Sigh, I can't keep this from Brother Zhang anymore, what if... you know..."
Xia Ning understands that the elderly sometimes don't express their thoughts to their children, and children have long taken their parents' presence for granted. Parents can immediately notice subtle changes in their children, but children cannot.
Regardless of whether Old Mrs. Zhang felt the same way, now that Jiang Yuan knew about the case of an elderly person sacrificing themselves, he had to remind Zhang Changheng. As for whether Zhang Changheng would communicate directly with his mother or something else, that was his business.
Xia Ning patted Jiang Yuan's arm understandingly, thinking, "Being a building manager is really tough."
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath, turned around and knocked on the door of 803.
Xia Ning left the stage at the right time, as it was inconvenient for her to listen to such things from the sidelines.
Xia Ning had never met Li Jian's parents, nor had she ever met Li Jian, but she still felt the loss of two living, breathing lives.
They survived the fire, but died from fear of the future.
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