Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1046 - 686: A Warning!

On August 5th, at eight thirty in the morning, the sixth floor Traffic Control Center of the Linghai Port Supervision Office was full of leaders.

Early yesterday, the superior reported that this year's No. 2 tropical storm was coming. If it were just flooding on the Yangtze River, Linghai wouldn't be afraid, but flood combined with storm, Linghai definitely can't withstand.

The City Committee and Municipal Government were very attentive and urgently convened a meeting at noon yesterday to arrange flood control and typhoon prevention work.

Early this morning, Secretary Ye personally rushed to the banks of the river to inspect the flood and typhoon prevention preparations in the development zone, especially the port area.

Don't be fooled by the dozens of kilometers of Linghai's Yangtze River coastline; the "essence" is all in the development zone.

Large projects like the under-construction Linghai Port and the nearly completed Cosco Shipyard—any of which have total investments in the billions—cannot suffer losses and simply cannot afford them.

Han Xiangning took the supervision boat yesterday afternoon to check several anchorage points on the Jianghai River Harbor and did another inspection early this morning. If Sister Ling hadn't mentioned on the walkie-talkie that Secretary Ye was coming, she even planned to check further downstream all the way to Bailong Port.

Unexpectedly, upon hastily returning to the unit, Secretary Ye was talking and laughing with Vice Mayor Ding, who was also there for the inspection, along with Police Chief Zhang Yidong and Secretary Chen of Sanhe Street standing aside with smiles.

"Director Xiao Han, sorry, your Dunship was dragged away by Salted Fish from your house, we had nowhere to go by the river, so we could only come to disturb you."

"It's not a disturbance, welcome Secretary Ye, Mayor Ding for inspection at our Port Supervision Office."

"It's not really an inspection, it's indeed a disturbance." Secretary Ye chuckled and asked, "Xiang Ning, has Salted Fish called you these days?"

"No, this flood seems never-ending. My dad said over the phone that he's even busier these days than when he first went, busy fighting the fourth flood peak."

"Beihu's flood situation is indeed very severe, otherwise, based on the newly promulgated and enacted 'Flood Control Law', it wouldn't have announced the emergency flood prevention period after Nanhu and Xijiang."

Seeing the leaders' cups with little tea left, Han Xiangning walked over with a thermos flask, refilling their tea while curiously asking, "Mayor Ye, what is an emergency flood prevention period?"

Secretary Ye explained, "It means all work must make way for flood prevention, which becomes the top priority of all tasks. For example, rescue and disaster relief materials can be requisitioned directly, used first and then billed later. Similarly, any personnel needed for flood fighting can be directly summoned."

Vice Mayor Ding added, "The Central Military Commission just issued an order yesterday requiring all troops participating in flood control to accept the command of flood control departments at all levels. Normally, flood control departments must first request, and the troop leaders then dispatch soldiers based on circumstances. Now, it's direct deployment, with command authority delegated to all levels of anti-flood command, which is unprecedented."

Han Xiangning paused, unable to resist asking, "What about our side, will Jiangnan announce an emergency flood prevention period?"

"Probably not, our flood situation isn't as severe."

Secretary Ye picked up the teacup, changed the subject, "Xiang Ning, good news for you, twenty minutes ago, the superior reported No. 2 tropical storm landed at two o'clock this morning in Qingfu City, Jianfu Province, with a maximum wind force near the center of level 8, and gradually weakening, causing no major damage to Jianfu Province. It's unlikely to move to Linghai, even if it does, the wind force won't be strong."

What Linghai fears most is the typhoon!

This is indeed good news, no wonder the leaders are all relaxed.

Han Xiangning was equally pleased and couldn't help asking, "Secretary Ye, is a tropical storm the same thing as a typhoon?"

"..."

"Secretary Ye, I really don't know."

"It's normal for others not to understand these, but how can you not!"

"I'm a port supervisor, not from the meteorological station, how should I know these."

"But your dad is the deputy chief engineer and chief forecaster of Binjiang Meteorological Bureau!"

"My mom was also a head nurse for many years, but I still don't know how to give an injection."

"Your dad hasn't told you, hasn't taught you?"

"No, I'm not very interested in meteorological predictions."

It's amusing that the daughter of a meteorological expert doesn't understand meteorology, Secretary Ye couldn't help but laugh.

Vice Mayor Ding was equally surprised and smiled as he explained, "A typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone. In meteorology, according to the World Meteorological Organization's definition, a tropical cyclone with sustained wind speed between level 12 to 13 is referred to as a typhoon or hurricane.

A tropical storm is one type of typhoon, with sustained winds near the center reaching 60 to 80 kilometers per hour, making it the most destructive of all natural disasters, often accompanied by heavy rain. The aftermath of strong winds and rain will surely leave chaos."

Han Xiangning genuinely didn't understand these things, muttering, "The meteorology department is quite something, calling a typhoon a tropical storm just for trendiness. Always coming up with new terms, making us confused."

And rightly so, the common people only know typhoons and haven't heard of tropical storms.

Calling it a typhoon is better; changing it to a new term leaves the public clueless, even to the point of not taking it seriously.

But while Han Xiangning can complain, Secretary Ye cannot, so he simply changed the topic, "Xiang Ning, Mayor Qin went to Beihu today to pay respects to your home's Salted Fish."

"I know, Director Zhu told me."

"Mayor Shen called and said that there's a 'Shajia Bang Group' also fighting floods over at Shishou, though that troop isn't stationed in Shuzhou, nor even in Jiangnan Province, just historically related to Shuzhou somewhat and is about to disband. Secretary Cao of Shuzhou City somehow learned this through some channels and actually went there for a visit."