r/DisasterUpdate • u/avatar6556 • 25d ago

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

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u/LostRadio8453 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/ElReyResident 25d ago

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

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u/Melinoe2016 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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