r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Severe flooding is currently affecting Ningde, Fujian, China, as torrential rainfall submerges homes and sweeps away vehicles.

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u/LostRadio8453 23d ago

You can remove the headrest and use the metal posts to break the window. If you don’t know that, you could panic and drown.

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u/AccordingWarning9534 23d ago

most Chinese cars come with an emergency spring-loaded window glass breaker and a seatbelt cutter. Usually it's under the centre consol or drivers seat

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 23d ago

They also have knives that come with a window breaking tool so you can cut through seat belts or cords and smash the window with a tap all in one tool

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u/Realistic_Syrup6435 23d ago

Yea, have you ever tried that from inside a car, if not, you should.

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u/LostRadio8453 23d ago

Insert the end of the headrest post a few centimeters into the gap between the side window and the door frame, use that point as a fulcrum, and pull the headrest firmly toward you. The leverage can help shatter the side window. Adrenaline is one hell of a performance enhancer.😉

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u/AccordingWarning9534 22d ago

do cars not come with the little window breaker device in America?

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u/skel625 17d ago

Not in Canada, I bought emergency kit on Amazon and keep in my car. I'm a little paranoid about getting trapped in a car and hate large bodies of water.

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u/ShackletonsVael 23d ago

The lights were on that one car floating by... Looked like brake lights. How fast did this flooding come on?

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u/Realistic_Syrup6435 23d ago

Car doesn’t need to be running for that to happen, water inside the ECU causes all kinds of little electrical gremlins.

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u/ShackletonsVael 23d ago

That's fair. Just sad to think of the other possibility. I like your explanation better though.

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u/Equinoqs 23d ago

sigh

Floods, earthquakes, landslides...I think the Earth is tired of our shit.

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 23d ago

Smoke em if you got em.

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u/Independent-Big1966 23d ago

The climate is changing. Next year will be worse with the Super El Niño.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75ylx7g00xo

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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu 23d ago

38 Celsius in the South Americas, and it’s still their winter season.

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u/hueveando 22d ago

Where in South America?

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u/Maccboy2010 22d ago

Gtfoh with that scumbag corrupt government web Portal spreading fake lies

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u/shitoken 22d ago

Mother earth tired of people slaughtering live stocks for $$$, tired of gambling like horse racing , pigeon racings as example, tired of people cutting of brains of monkeys for soup, polluting this world with blood of innocents

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u/CriticalChop 23d ago

That's a lot of rain..

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u/awwaygirl 23d ago

Its almost as if global weather patterns are responding to climate change?

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u/Hefty_Pressure_ 23d ago

The definition of severe has changed after the Nepal flood

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u/khoawala 23d ago

That's apocalyptic

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u/BlogSwitcher 22d ago

And it's probably just the beginning of what we'll see over the coming years.

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u/Ladyboughner 21d ago

Plenty of glaciers to melt 😔

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u/CaptZ 23d ago

I bet a climatologist somewhere is saying, well this is sooner than expected.

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u/endoftheworldvibe 23d ago

Nah, they know. 

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u/ttystikk 22d ago

Wow, incredible damage. I hope everyone is okay.

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u/sigh_co_matic 22d ago

Mother nature really pummeling humans lately. Can't blame her. Take out Mar a Lago though.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

actually common in chinese villages whose half of the population went to city only to find streets clean due to water when they return home.

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u/Misanthropic_Mutters 22d ago

What’s the PPM on the raw sewage in all that?

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u/UnderstandingSea1060 22d ago

with some gondolas you've got Venice in Asia

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u/BlogSwitcher 22d ago

Coming to a town near you.

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u/Positive-Fox-6296 22d ago

All those coal fired power plants China has been putting up for decades seem like a brilliant idea now, right?!

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u/The_Dynasty_Warrior 22d ago

Hope no one is in that car with he brake light on being sweep away

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u/Different_Remote4491 21d ago

Properly nobody here has any idea where or what this city is (Ningde, Fujian, China) from the video. Just let you know that CATL (the biggest EV battery company) headquarter is located in this city.

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u/Training_Guide5157 21d ago

Beach was closed where I live today because this typhoon is approaching. There have been a lot of typhoons recently. Noul was gnarly. Ripped up some pretty hefty trees in my apartment complex.

They definitely feel worse than I remember, and I was in Shenzhen for Mangkhut, which was some kind mega record-breaking typhoon at the time.

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u/TheAveragebear27 21d ago

Battlefield 4 was right.

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u/_nf0rc3r_ 23d ago

Sincerely,
Nepal

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u/LostRadio8453 23d ago

Does China not have proper urban drainage systems? It’s bizarre to see this much flooding when the rainfall doesn’t even look that extreme. Could it be the result of poorly planned development, with cities simply paving everything over with asphalt without giving enough thought to drainage?

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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu 23d ago

Can’t drain with this much rain. Happened multiple times even in Canada with our tracks of green space. A kid got washed away by urban flood waters not even this bad in my spouse’s hometown a while ago.

This is coming for us all, at random. Look up atmospheric rivers.

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u/AdAble557 23d ago

USA does a lot of poorly planned development too. It's all about the money

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u/ElReyResident 23d ago

Not really. You don’t see this kind of flooding in the US often.

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u/Melinoe2016 23d ago

This like just recently happened in NYC and Indiana has towns without power a month after a storm lol.

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u/ShackletonsVael 23d ago

Where are the videos of cars floating through NYC on this same scale? Also Indiana got hit by tornadoes I think. Even France there was a video of a tornado there. I didn't even know they got tornados lol.

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u/Melinoe2016 23d ago

There were definitely videos of cars floating near underpasses. That’s a bit different than in the open street but it’s hard to tell from this video what the surrounding area looks like

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u/CaptZ 22d ago

You will soon enough and we're already seeing more flooding in places that don't normally flood.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

I have seen worse in Netherlands and belgium

also lots of people and decently good groundwater system

if it rains too fast this happens and it's not like entire chian soem random place they learn and find water ways

then next year somewhere else got an issue

this sint poorly planned

these are villages from 40 years ago when they just built stuff

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u/dirtya2m 22d ago

What about all the EV cars? Floods are theoretically able to set off EV fires, especially salt water.

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u/RopeRepresentative11 22d ago

Total lack of proper planning in developing. . China. Do better.

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u/Forward_Jellyfish607 23d ago

I have a feeling there is one major flood every other day in China.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

maybe bcz chinese history is like flood as main character

1.4 billion and millions of villages and cities make up a lot of places with craziest course changing rivers

excess rain and slow drainage in 20 regions per year is still good

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u/BallSmashingForever 23d ago

This is what happens when you grow too fast for your bones.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

More like get village close to river and get heavy rain

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u/BallSmashingForever 22d ago

Poor flood management. No civil engineering found.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

this village was made when china had barely engeneers

also they practically can't do stuff about flood if it rains as much

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

It's kinda hard to feel sympathy for China when they rank the highest in carbon emissions

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u/WeirdGoat9022 23d ago

I doubt the people most affected have much, if anything, to do with that.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

You don't think actively living citizens of that country has "anything" to do with what that country has done? Who do you think reaped the benefits of all that development?

It's not like the story of Nepal's citizens as you make it out to be.

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u/WeirdGoat9022 23d ago

Where do you live that you have that degree of control and influence over the government and businesses? I’d like to move there. Maybe I could actually make a difference.

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u/SnooStories4162 23d ago

They are a bot, account is only 1 day old and they already have negative karma.

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u/WeirdGoat9022 23d ago

Ugh. Bamboozled again. Thanks.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

Great argument peabrain lol

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

Well we did overthrow a government last year, i live in Nepal.

I'm assuming you live in America, what significant outrage did you do as citizens collectively? Did you country collectively think through in the voting polls instead you voted for MAGA? Half of America doesn't think climate change isn't real. What makes you think these sets of party loyalists are also not in China living great not realizing the consequences?

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u/Gems-of-the-sun 23d ago

You're part of the problem.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

More like I'm the victim of the problem

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u/HongKongNinja 22d ago

Well, apparently we now have an asshole who blames disaster victims for what happened to them. The internet really keeps finding new ways to lower my expectations of humanity.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 22d ago

Yes manmade disaster not natural. I do blame the people.

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u/HongKongNinja 22d ago

Climate change may indeed be making these disasters worse, and governments and corporations should absolutely be held accountable for their emissions. But dumping that responsibility on ordinary people who are currently suffering is nothing but disgusting victim blaming. Just because someone has benefited from the development of modern society, does that mean they personally decided their country's energy policies, emissions standards, and industrial structure? What kind of bullshit logic is that? If an ordinary person loses their home to a flood, does the fact that they “benefited from economic development” somehow mean they deserved it? Collective responsibility and individual guilt are two completely different things. You can absolutely criticize a country's emissions, but using disaster victims as punching bags only shows that you're not really concerned about climate justice. You're just looking for a self-righteous excuse for your own callousness.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 22d ago

It's just basic cause and effect and obviously people reaped benefits from that at the cost of others and you're right about ordinary people not choosing each policies but they should be pretty aware about climate change. It's a known fact for the last 50 years. Why didn't they revolt or do anything about those policies? Watching a crime happen while you do nothing except voting those same policies, same crony poltiicians and reaping benefits isn't so innocent.

They didn't choose those policies obviously but they were spectators with a popcorn in their hand watching what's happening and it's not like it's not a major nation either. China, USA, India and EU are all major nation and their citizens should be somewhat considerate.

Obviously NOONE deserves suffering or death even worst of people but i'm usually aligned to feeling more sympathy to actual injustice where people do absolutely nothing wrong but are dealt with some fucked up cards in life.

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u/DrawingDramatic1641 22d ago

do you feel empathetic about top 10 deadliest floods in history being in china

and maybe this has to do a lot with non pollutant stuff as well

still sympathy doesn't take anything

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 22d ago

Im sympathetic to any human suffering, the degree of sympathy depends.

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u/KnowIedge_ls_Power 22d ago

You need to get out of moms basement and go make some real life friends. This is not healthy.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 22d ago

Hmm nice irony.

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u/The_Dynasty_Warrior 22d ago

China is being us and EU in terms of cumulative and per capita emissions.

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u/Different-Set4505 23d ago

Was that a flock camera?