Sun Zongyuan took a nap in front of the brazier. He looked at his watch and saw it was past one o'clock. He looked outside the door and saw the dark rain was still falling heavily.
After getting dressed, the three of them returned to the Kunhe River embankment. Holding lanterns, they inspected the embankments on both sides step by step. After confirming that there were no problems, they returned to the shack and called Secretary Zhang and the other four people to go to the three ponds in the mountains. There were guardhouses for watching the wild animals near the three ponds. Although they were not big, ten people could still squeeze in. After asking about the situation, they learned that they took turns inspecting once an hour. No problems were found for the time being. After a short rest, they checked the ponds one by one and found that each pond had overflowed with a large amount of water. However, as the rain washed down a lot of silt and firewood, the spillway was blocked, causing the spillway to flow poorly and the water level of the pond to rise.
Sun Zongyuan arranged for people to clear the silt and wood at the spillway mouth, which accelerated the water flow and gradually lowered the water level in the pond.
After arranging three pond and dam groups to pay attention to clearing the silted firewood, Sun Zongyu returned to the Kunhe inspection point and found that the river water surface was only half a meter away from the bridge surface. The firewood rushing down from upstream was also blocked by the bridge piers, causing the water flow in the bridge hole to slow down. He immediately organized people to clear the firewood to ensure the safety of flood discharge.
More than ten people, in groups of four, patrolled the riverbank and cleared firewood until dawn.
At half past ten in the morning, the rain gradually subsided and stopped.
As soon as the rain subsided a little, Sun Zongyuan arranged for Secretary Zhang to leave five people in each group, and the others to quickly arrange to investigate the disaster situation in the village. For houses that were leaking or flooded, people, pigs, cattle, sheep, grain and other property must be moved out.
An hour later, Secretary Zhang reported:
There are 13 houses in the village with serious leaks, 9 houses with flooded foundations, two pig farms with water pens, a cow shed was blown away by the wind, and two cows are running a fever. More than 300 acres of farmland have been flooded and no crops can be seen. The land in the entire village is full of water.
Sun Zongyu arranged for all villagers to dig drainage ditches urgently to drain the water from the village and fields. People were advised not to enter dangerous houses to prevent casualties.
Xiao Zhao from the work area came over to inform him:
The township held a flood prevention and disaster relief work meeting at 12 o'clock, asking Sun Zongyuan to hurry back.
It took more than half an hour to get to the village. Sun Zongyuan was exhausted and sweating all over. After gulping down two cups of warm water, he finally regained some strength.
Li Jianguo briefly reported the flood situation:
The heavy rainfall of 338 mm in 24 hours is the heaviest rainfall in Anyang County ever recorded. Now the county party committee has called for emergency disaster relief work.
Each team member reported on yesterday's flood prevention work. Sun Zongyan not only reported on the work of rescuing sheep for the people last night, but also gave a brief report on the disaster situation in Xiaofushan Village. When he heard that the disaster situation in Xiaofushan Village was so serious, Li Jianguo immediately arranged for people to go to six work areas to arrange self-rescue work.
The Party Committee established a disaster relief leading group, which consists of five professional groups:
The agricultural disaster relief team is mainly responsible for farmland water conservancy and drainage, and rescuing agricultural production.
The housing disaster relief team is mainly responsible for formulating standards and rectification measures for dangerous buildings, and for planning and constructing dangerous buildings in other places.
The epidemic prevention and disaster relief team carried out purification and disinfection of water wells throughout the township and comprehensive disinfection of villages to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic.
The health disaster relief team is mainly responsible for providing emergency assistance to critically ill patients caused by this rainfall.
The inspection and performance evaluation group will take action against Party members and cadres who are not proactive in disaster relief, take ineffective measures, and cause serious consequences.
When Li Jianguo asked for everyone's opinions again, Sun Zongyan suggested that since the heavy rain had soaked the firewood and grass, eating and drinking water were a problem, and it was necessary to organize another social assistance leading group to temporarily solve the people's water and food problems, and he volunteered to be the group leader.
Li Jianguo nodded in agreement and arranged for the leadership team to divide into groups to start work immediately.
When Sun Zongyu was in Xiaofushan Village, he asked someone to notify Qianhe Food Factory to urgently produce 150,000 bottles of boiled water.
Qianhe Food Factory produces canned food. They have canning bottles. They use coal to boil water and add some syrup to fill the cans. The machines and equipment are all ready. The production is very simple. There is no problem with the shelf life within one week. It is estimated that they can produce 100,000 bottles and 150,000 kilograms in one day and one night.
Sun Zongyuan called over Li Yongquan, the director of the Civil Affairs Office, and drafted a plan and contact persons, assigning each person one bottle of sugar water, one pound of instant noodles, and one package of sausage. Seven people from the Civil Affairs and Finance Offices were then assigned to each work area and arranged for transport vehicles to go to the Qianhe Food Factory for sugar water, the Honghua Food Factory for instant noodles, and the Honghua Meat Processing Factory for sausage.
At the same time, the secretary of the Party and Government Office was arranged to report the disaster situation and the need for supplies to the county party committee.
After reading the report, Li Jianguo went to several villages to inspect the disaster situation and then urgently went to the county party committee to report.
After hearing the report, the county party committee urgently allocated five tons of noodles, thirty tons of coal and a batch of human and animal epidemic prevention drugs to Honghua Township.
It is understood that Anyang County is the county with the heaviest rainfall in the Ganhe area, and Honghua Township is the largest township.
When Li Jianguo also reported that Sun Zongyuan risked his life to rescue fellow villagers' sheep and donated 250,000 yuan worth of food supplies, Secretary Wang Peizhong praised him repeatedly:
"Sun Zongyuan is a good comrade, pragmatic and concerned about the people, and he has a broad perspective! We should learn from him!"
The county reported the disaster situation to the Prefectural Committee, which in turn reported the disaster situation in Ganhe area to the Provincial Committee. Batches of relief supplies were subsequently delivered, and the 500,000 yuan in relief funds allocated by various levels also arrived in Honghua Township's account.
Speaking of disaster relief supplies, Sun Zongyuan's donations were the most timely, like timely help. The most needed things during a disaster are food, clothing and water, and Sun Zongyuan solved them on the same day.
The subsequent disaster relief supplies can only be regarded as icing on the cake, representing the goodwill of governments at all levels and people from all walks of life. Honghua Township is very grateful!
After counting the damage to houses, farmland, water conservancy and transportation in each village and household, Honghua Township allocated 600,000 yuan for post-disaster reconstruction subsidies based on the proportion of losses.
The higher authorities allocated 500,000 yuan in special disaster relief funds, and Honghua Township subsidized another 100,000 yuan in disaster relief funds.
Anyang County ordered 500,000 bottles of sugar water, 50,000 kilograms of convenience foods and 20,000 kilograms of ham sausages from Qianhe Food Factory.
Several nearby disaster-stricken counties also ordered 600,000 bottles of sugar water, 100,000 kilograms of convenience foods and 30,000 kilograms of ham sausages.
Qianhe sugar water, safflower instant noodles and safflower ham sausage quickly found a new sales channel in Ganhe area.
Tastes good, is cheap, nutritious, convenient and fast!
It is truly a must-have food for working overtime late at night, visiting relatives and friends, and disaster relief emergencies.
Qianhe Food Factory therefore has a new product:
Qianhe boiled water.
The factory used simple and elegant plastic bottles that are common in later generations for packaging. A bottle of boiled water cost 10 cents, and Qianhe made a profit of 2 cents on each bottle. From this item alone, Qianhe Food Factory made a profit of more than 3 million yuan in the second half of the year, and thus Qianhe Food Factory began to enter the drinking water market.
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