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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 20:46:15 EDT
Yangtze River Threatens China City
"YUEYANG, China (AP) - Surging floodwaters pushed the giant Yangtze River
to dangerous levels, putting a strain on dikes shielding the metropolis of
Wuhan as storms dumped more rain on sodden central China Monday. On
Monday, the lake was 5 feet above safe levels on dikes protecting Yueyang,
a city of 600,000 people, said an official of the Hunan Water Resources
Bureau. He would give only his surname, Zhou. Hundreds of thousands of
people who live around the lake have been evacuated over the past week. An
army of more than 1 million laborers and soldiers raced to reinforce
hundreds of miles of dikes that surround it. After days of clear skies, up
to 2 inches of rain is forecast by Tuesday for the northern part of Hunan
and the western provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020826/ap_on_re_as/china_flooding_47
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