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« on: July 13, 2010, 07:49:30 am »
17 dead, 44 missing as landslides hit China towns
By CHI-CHI ZHANG, Associated Press Writer
1 hr 28 mins ago
 
 
 
  BEIJING – Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.


The landslides swept through three different areas before dawn, state media said. In the worst-hit town of Xiaohe in Yunnan province, four died and rescuers were searching for 42 others, the official provincial newspaper Yunnan Daily reported on its website. Another 38 were injured.


In neighboring Sichuan province, seven died and one person was missing in Yandai village, while rescuers recovered six bodies and were searching for one person in Sima village, the Xinhua News Agency reported.


Meanwhile, the waters in a reservoir near the far western city of Golmud began to subside Tuesday after hundreds of workers and soldiers finished digging a diversion channel, an official at the Qinghai province water bureau said.


The reservoir at one point swelled to almost four feet (more than a meter) above its warning level, the Golmud city government website said. Over the weekend, about 10,000 residents were evacuated as soldiers transported sandbags, rocks and dirt and used bulldozers to dig the emergency waterway, the website said.


Still, parts of Golmud, a transport and mining hub on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, were already under six feet (two meters) of water, Xinhua reported.


Usually prone to drought, Qinghai has seen increasingly heavy rainfalls in recent years. This year's rains fell as snow melted in the surrounding mountains. Dozens of reservoirs swelled beyond their warning levels, said the water bureau official.


Heavy rain is expected to sweep through the Yangtze River basin, including Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces, through Wednesday, the China Meteorological Administration said.


Parts of China experience annual flooding. In the first ten days of July, torrential rains have caused more than 50 deaths and economic losses of 8.9 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion), according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 09:32:19 am »
they are anticipating heavy rains here all the way until the 22nd of this month. and its already a disaster there

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Re: Merged threads-China news
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 09:03:28 pm »
Ted,

Are you speaking of Beijing or Guangzhou?

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« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 10:59:44 am »
no i mean in Shichuan and Yunan provinces were it is already at the point of disaster with all the landslides and flooding

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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 11:10:21 pm »
From today's China Daily:-

Threat of 'worst flood in 12 years'
WUHAN - A massive flooding similar to the one in 1998 that killed thousands of people is likely to occur this year, if downpours continue to batter the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a flood-control official has warned. "Although the current situation along the Yangtze River has yet to reach the danger level, it is definitely at a crucial point," Wang Jingquan, director of the flood control and drought relief office affiliated to the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee, told China Daily on Wednesday.

Monitoring results from the committee suggested that as of Wednesday, the water level of all sections of the Yangtze River had exceeded the annual average level for mid-July, Wang said. Since June 7, water levels of the Jiujiang section and Boyang Lake along the Yangtze River have gone beyond the alert level twice. The water level at the Three Gorges Dam reached 150 meters, 5 meters higher than the alert level during flood season."We are definitely facing great challenges in flood control along the Yangtze River because heavy rainfalls usually hit the river valley in July and August," Wang said.

The three massive floods in the Yangtze River valley in 1975, 1983 and 1998 all occurred in July and August, he said."There will be no room for optimism as the incoming Typhoon Conson will add to the grave situation in flood control," Wang said."If heavy rain hits the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, coupled with the continuous rainfall in the middle and lower reaches, severe flooding similar to that in 1998 will occur."

In the summer of 1998, China experienced its worst flooding in parts of the Yangtze River basin, which killed 4,150 people and forced 18.4 million to be relocated. Economic losses totaled 255 billion yuan ($37 billion).The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters also forecast that a recurrence of the massive flooding in 1998 is possible because of similar weather conditions this year.The China Meteorological Administration forecast on Wednesday that the rain belt will move to regions along the Huaihe River from Friday to Monday.

Heavy rains will hit Sichuan province and Chongqing upstream of the Yangtze River this week, while rainstorms will batter Hainan and Guangdong provinces under the influence of Conson after Thursday, it said.Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains have crested riverbanks, broken dikes and cut off power and water supplies in parts of the badly hit areas in the south, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless.Flash floods forced more than 30,000 people to evacuate in Jiangxi province on Wednesday morning and caused water levels at three reservoirs in Poyang county to spill over.

The local meteorological bureau issued a top alert for rainstorms on Wednesday.Landslides triggered by heavy rains in Yunnan, Sichuan and Hunan provinces left at least 41 people dead and nearly 40 others missing earlier this week.In Qiaojia county, Yunnan, one of the worst-hit areas, landslides triggered by torrents on Tuesday morning killed 17 people and left 28 missing as of Wednesday, China National Radio reported on Wednesday.

Two landslides killed 14 people in neighboring Sichuan. In Hunan, 10 people including four young children died in two separate landslides this week, Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.The recent downpours have claimed 118 lives, left 47 missing and displaced more than 1 million people in 11 provinces and regions in the central and southern parts of China, with direct economic losses reaching 360 million yuan from July 1 to July 14, latest statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed.

President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have ordered relevant ministries and local governments to ensure the safety of the public and minimize property losses as the country has entered the flood season. Hu and Wen stressed that people residing in areas under the threat of floods and typhoons must be relocated to safety in a timely manner.

Things are not looking good at the moment, lets hope it's not as bad as they think it might  be. It's bad enough now!

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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2010, 11:49:51 pm »
Frequent Sightings of UFO's in China

Multiple Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings have recently been reported across different regions in China. They were spotted from June 30 to July 10 in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the northeastern city of Changchun, the southeastern city of Hangzhou, and the southern city of Xiamen.

People have been perplexed by UFO sightings for many years. Governments tend to be non committal about their existence, one possibility might be that they fear a mass hysteria if announced that they are real. However, independent UFO researchers known as ufologists, are quick to say that “Yes, UFOs do exist.”

Urumqi Xinjiang : UFO Spotted
One recent sighting was in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, in northwestern China. At around 11:00 p.m. on June 30, a round, bright object was seen moving slowly eastward, leaving an enormous, fan-shaped trail of white light behind. A photo taken by a local resident was published in the July 5 issue of Xingjiang Metropolitan Daily.

According to Song Huagang, secretary-general of the Xinjiang Astronomical Society, the object was an intercontinental missile launched by the U.S. on June 30.

The "missile theory" was dismissed on July 9 by Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory (also known as Purple Mountain Observatory, under the aegis of the Chinese academy of Sciences.)

Wang told China News Service that it was not a U.S. missile, because Xinjiang and California are more than 7000 km (3450 miles) apart. On viewing the video footage Wang said that the UFO seems to be "somewhat strange," given its exceptionally bright midsection and its fascinating shape.

Hangzhou: Preferred Hangout
China News Service reported on July 8 that the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in the southeast province of Zhejiang was closed for one hour on July 7, at around 9:00 p.m. Due to a UFO sighting, flights were grounded. According to a witness who was in a plane that was landing, the object looked like a bright twinkling dot, coming and going in the blink of an eye.

Wang Sichao, from the Zhijinshan Astronomical Observatory dismissed the phenomenon, saying, “There is not enough information to draw a conclusion at this time.”

At around 7:30 p.m. on July 9, another UFO was spotted in the Binjiang Higher Education Park in Hangzhou. A teacher and several security guards witnessed a star-like, white shining ball of light. “One second it was right here, the next second, it became very, very small: like a faraway star. It flew away at a very high speed,” the teacher (surnamed Li) told Shenzhen Economic Daily.

Changchun’s UFO Video
City Evening News reported that at 3:22 a.m. on July 10, a security guard on the night shift at Huifang Industries in the Changchun Economic & Technological Development Zone, spotted an arm-shaped, spinning object through the video surveillance camera. After about ten minutes, it disappeared. The video replay reveals an object shaped like a curved human arm, appearing from behind some fog. It moved from south to the north before disappearing.

Xiamen’s Beams of Light
Fujian Online (onfj.com) reported that in the early morning hours of July 10, a “sheet of music notes,” composed of vertical light beams, filled up the Xiamen sky in Fujian province.

At first, five beams of light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. on July 9. They quickly grew to around 50 beams. A resident said, “It was very beautiful, like a sheet of music notes.”

When the media arrived at the scene about an hour later, clouds had also moved in, making only a few beams of light visible to the naked eye. However, a picture taken at the time later revealed many more beams of light.

Debate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings and their craft are not new. Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zhijinshan Astronomical Observatory told Guangzhou Daily: “I’ve researched about 20 UFOs spotted since 1971. Some of them are swirl-shaped, some fan-shaped, and some are balls of light. They appear at a height of 130 km (426509 ft) to 1,500 km (4921260 ft) above ground. Their speed is much lower than the escape velocity (7 miles/sec on the surface of the Earth.) Some were as slow as 0.18 miles/sec. Yet they can fly parallel to the earth’s surface, at a height of 1,460km (4790026 ft), for as long as 25 minutes. They must have some sort of anti-gravity mechanism. Otherwise, they would have crashed to the earth in no time.”

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Re: Merged threads-China news
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2010, 12:03:23 am »
Yipeee there back!
 Does this mean we should resurrect the old UFO thread Vince? and get rocky to tell us all about the ones he's seen? Oh, ok maybe not.........

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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2010, 12:27:02 am »
or the ones he has boarded and talked with lol!!!

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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2010, 07:33:10 pm »
Oh I know we are not alone . This is why I keep an close Eye on some of our Member's with strange Names , looking for OUR beautiful chinese Women .

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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2010, 07:39:12 pm »
Anyone notice that Rocky hasn't been around lately?  Could it be him flying over China in his new contraption he has been calling a house?

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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2010, 01:15:44 am »
his little green freinds must have picked him up again

or the building inspector made him tear it down and start over

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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2010, 02:49:27 am »
Nah , Rocky said he would be off air for a little while , something to do with sparks and net , guess he cannot pedal fast enough or connect in his new abode yet , regards Robert.
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2010, 05:16:29 am »
Robert,

Occasionally some of the long timers here will give nicknames to others on the site.  I think you just stumbled over Rocky's even though Rocky is a nickname.  How about Sparky.  :D

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« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2010, 08:59:54 am »
or how about  Skippy

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« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2010, 10:13:51 am »
Just a funny little story from a few years ago , I used to import and install glass bricks , on this particular project involving new classrooms and basketball courts etc , the building was way past lockup when the project builders decided to get there own back on the super smart government supervisors who had said all along fixed price, no add ons , just build it to the drawings and spec's ,at the site meeting which I was attending the builders suggested was it not time for the electrical work to be installed , very blank looks and then panic as there were no drawings for any electrical works at all even drawn up , so the builders had a huge smile as they now had a very large extra on a cost plus plus plus basis , regards Robert .
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