crisis management game.

Chapter 162 National Crisis

In an instant, a large group of black objects "smashed" along the rushing flood.

Even though Gu Ji yelled in advance, the rubber boat still didn't have time to dodge, and was hit hard on the stern by the black group, and even the hull began to shake violently.

"Everyone hurry up!"

The rescue commander and Gu Ji shouted in unison.

Fortunately, the black object was just a pile of branches entangled by the water flow, and the hull quickly became stable under the driver's operation. If it was replaced by the glass that smashed the train before, the entire rubber boat would be overturned.

Suddenly, a glaring white light flashed across, like a giant python leaping over the clouds, several thunderclaps sounded, and the rain intensified accordingly.

The formation commander picked up the waterproof loudspeaker and urged the boat troops to evacuate as soon as possible.

Gu Ji couldn't help but feel lucky. If he urged the central cabinet government to slow down, the transport plane would have been unable to land at this time. While chatting with the lifeguards, he knew that the Indian air force base had dispatched a total of 9 Il-76s. And the C-17 strategic heavy transport aircraft introduced at a high price.

Since they are so willing to spend money, the cabinet government naturally cannot waste such a good publicity opportunity.

Gu Ji noticed that in the boat force, at least four or five rubber boats were equipped with professional photographers to capture details of the rescue.

"Viddy, look!"

Fatima suddenly tugged on his sleeve, and pointed to the water not far away where the lights of the rubber boat shone.

It turned out that it was covered with dead branches and weeds similar to the one just now, and occasionally a stone could be seen splashing out, and even the edge of the kayak had already been muddy by the muddy flood.

Gu Ji glanced back and looked thoughtfully.

"It looks like there was a mudslide on the river bank."

From the very beginning, he felt that the flood was exceptionally turbid, and opening his eyes in the water was like being sanded. The conditions for the formation of mudslides are often steep terrain, rich loose accumulations, sudden and continuous heavy rainstorms or massive floods. The outflow of ice-melt water, among which the viscous mud-rock flow erupts suddenly and fiercely, with a solid content of up to 80%, is extremely destructive, and is much more terrifying than floods.

The shape in front of us is more like a dilute mudslide, with water as the main component, less clay content, and solid matter accounting for 10-40%, which is very dispersed, but the sediment will also damage ecology and transportation.

Gu Ji immediately found the commander of the rubber boat and asked them to avoid the train tunnel and hills ahead as much as possible.

"In addition, I suggest that you should turn off and lift the outboard motor in time, and use paddles and pennies to paddle instead. Right now, in a mountain forest environment, the passage is narrow, the water level is not high, and there are too many solids in the water. It is easy to wind up the external propeller or block the jet pump, and once the power system is damaged in large numbers, it will be very difficult to rescue in the future!"

He proposed to the cabinet secretary from the beginning to use a detachable external power supply.

On the one hand, it is convenient to separate and transport to save space; on the other hand, considering that the flood sediments usually contain high impurities such as sediment, the underwater visibility is low, and there is a lack of basic data of the waterway and the guidance of navigation marks and navigation lights, a large number of flooded Obstacles such as wires and cables, tree trunks, and mounds under the water surface, as well as a large number of debris floating on the water surface, make the water environment extremely complex and have a great impact on boat navigation.

The commander is a 27-year-old square-faced Indian brother.

After hearing the proposal, he was slightly taken aback, as if he was a little surprised why Gu Ji knew so much, and subconsciously asked, "Are you..."

"Vidi Dali, Deputy Disaster Commissioner, Assam State Emergency Management Command!"

After hearing about Gu Ji's identity, the commander suddenly realized that he was an expert in disaster handling.

But what he doesn't know is that Fatima next to Gu Ji is also an expert, and specializes in meteorology and flood disasters, but she doesn't know the knowledge of water boat search and rescue.

In fact, looking at the entire State Disaster Management Department, even Minister Anurag is not as "knowledgeable and talented" as Gu Ji.

Weather analysis, formulation of emergency response strategies, on-site command, emergency medical first aid, and now there is an additional water rescue.

It can be described as a monster.

While the commander reported to the commander-in-chief of the formation, Gu Jize pretended to be contemplative, and secretly began to study weather rewards and mission objectives.

He clicked on the reward with his mind.

In an instant, a translucent dynamic light curtain appeared in front of my eyes, showing a partial map of the world. In the Bay of Bengal, a large amount of colored smoky gas was condensing on the ocean. The outermost layer was white, and the pink became darker towards the center. until it turns pink.

"As expected of military data, it's so detailed."

Gu Ji was amazed by the complexity of the Navy’s forecasting model. The model dynamically covered the weather forecast for the next 10 days, including sea surface air temperature, cloud formation, cloud movement forecast, low-altitude wind forecast, and atmospheric heat flux.

These meteorological data are not just for weather forecasting.

For example, low-altitude wind is very important for the precise flight and guidance of military aircraft, missiles, and UAVs; ocean surface air temperature is involved in calculating atmospheric waveguides in electronic warfare; predicting cloud movements is to support offensive and defensive intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.

The only thing that is more hip is the accuracy.

The unit pixel accuracy of the latest weather model developed by the United States can reach 3.5 kilometers. Xia Guo even partially achieved ultra-high precision at the [-]-meter level in the Winter Olympics. Although the Indian Navy is forecasting the macro bay area, its accuracy is only a dozen kilometers, still at the level of the United States seven or eight years ago.

However, this does not affect Gu Ji's analysis of the future trend of the tropical depression.

According to the model prediction, the tropical depression landed near Bangladesh and radiated up and down to Assam in northeastern India and West Bengal in the west. It is also the main reason for the current heavy rain in Assam.

Over time, the tropical depression begins to deflect.

Affected by the high mountains on the mainland, the low-pressure belt in Assam gradually weakened. It is expected that the precipitation will disappear completely in two days, but what he did not expect is that the tropical low-pressure that lost its "right arm" returned to the Bay of Bengal during the deflection process, and again Accumulating strength on the sea surface, it is likely to evolve into a tropical storm.

Tropical storms belong to the second level in the classification of tropical cyclones. They are already considered typhoons or hurricanes. Not only is the precipitation stronger than the "infant" tropical depression, but the wind is also stronger, reaching 17.2 to 24.2 m/s.

Anyone who has studied geography in high school knows that once a tropical cyclone lands, it will weaken or even disappear quickly.

On the one hand, it is because the typhoon lost sufficient water vapor supply from the ocean after it landed. On the other hand, there are too many obstacles on the land, with ups and downs, and high friction, which will quickly consume the energy of the typhoon.

But there are also some special examples.

For example, the famous "King of Typhoon" Yutu, after hitting Saipan in the United States weakened, it re-strengthened significantly and returned to the throne of the 17-level typhoon. The main reason is the phenomenon of "eye wall replacement". After the construction of the new eye is completed, the typhoon will intensify significantly.

This is exactly the case with the tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal.

According to the weather forecast, Gu Ji calculated that the re-intensified tropical storm is likely to focus on West Bengal.

This is also consistent with his original inference.

Assam is backed by the Himalayas and has many mountains, which are easy to consume cyclone energy. However, the former is located in the world's largest Ganges Delta, and the terrain is flat all the way. It can't stop the strong wind and rain of tropical storms. The hurricane disaster in the United States is far more serious than other countries. Because of this, the Central Great Plains is not blocked by mountains.

Gu Ji seemed to have thought of something, and hastily called up the satellite map of his mobile phone.

However, due to poor signal and torrential rain, it took him a lot of effort to find the topographic map of West Bengal. According to the terrain, it is divided into two parts. The northern part has the Teesta River, the Tor The southern region has the Ganges, Hooghly, Rupnalaram and Damodar rivers.

This is enough to prove that the water resources of West Bengal are no worse than that of Assam, or even stronger.

In particular, hundreds of large and small dams have been built on many rivers in the northern region. According to the pattern that the delta plain urgently needs agricultural irrigation in autumn and winter, they must be full of water. If a tropical storm lands and the dam breaks, West Bengal will be destroyed There will be floods worse than Assam!

And West Bengal has a population of [-] million, three times that of Assam!
Among them is the third largest city in India:
Calcutta!

Just when Gu Ji was caught in a huge whirlpool of crisis, the rescue boat force finally reached the edge of the land safely. Although there was still water here, the water could only touch his ankles because of the blocking of the hills.

It was already past one o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night.

It is hard to imagine that they have been hit by floods since 9:[-] and were trapped alive in the train for nearly four hours.

I have to sigh that the survival instinct of human beings is really a miracle.

The victims cheered and jumped off the boats. According to the arrangement of the soldiers, they rushed to the nearest disaster evacuation center on foot, while some old, weak, sick and disabled were directly taken away by the transport vehicles sent by the army.

"Great, Vidi, we're on this land again!"

Fatima was about to share the joy of the rest of her life with Gu Ji, but the other party just lowered her head with a solemn expression, without any response, "Vidi, Vidi! Why do you seem unhappy? What happened? Is it?"

"Fatima, this flood disaster is far from over, we have to find Minister Anurag and the Meteorological Bureau quickly."

Gu Ji still can't say clearly that the tropical storm is about to hit West Bengal, because in the eyes of outsiders, he can't get the data from the Indian Naval Meteorological Center at all, so he naturally has no basic evidence to support his argument.

The disaster evacuation centers supported by the central government are much more organized than before.

Looking around, in addition to the densely packed tents, a special material center and a command center have been set up. The materials include tents, blankets, clothes, medicines and the most important food, mainly rice and noodles.

Senior officials of the state government have already stepped out of the tents of the command center to greet and condolence the victims.

Gu Ji and the two hurried through the crowd and found Anurag.

"Thanks to Lord Shiva's blessing, you two finally came back safe and sound."

When Anurag saw the two, he couldn't help the excitement in his heart. One was his most proud subordinate, and the other was a talent he had just recruited with unlimited potential. He would be reluctant to change anyone, "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't let you go The car is being escorted!"

"Minister, you should be grateful for sending the two of us to the train, otherwise without Vidi, what will happen to this train, I'm afraid..."

Fatima didn't tell the whole story, but everyone knew that it was thanks to Gu Ji that these victims were successfully rescued!
But Gu Ji himself was not indulged in flattery, but asked sternly: "Minister, what is the real reason for the sudden flood in Assam this time? Is it because the dam's water storage exceeds the standard, causing the embankment to collapse? "

This is the answer that Gu Ji wants to know the most right now.

If this is the case, then surely West Bengal will repeat the same mistakes.

Just didn't expect it.

Anurag's answer is not so.

"The flood broke out very suddenly. During the time when your train was trapped, I and the Minister of Agriculture initially investigated the cause of the disaster. The real flood broke out in the northeast of Assam, at the lower end of the Himalayas. The middle and upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River.”

"Fortunately, many witnesses survived the incident. According to their personal experience, they described hearing a loud noise, and then the water level of the river suddenly rose sharply, and the water became so fierce that it destroyed the original The dam was filled with water, and the dam was overwhelmed, causing the dams in the middle reaches to burst continuously, which led to this unprecedented flood in decades."

根据国际水文情报规范，按洪水要素重现期小于5年、5－20年、20－50年、大于50年，将洪水分为小洪水、中洪水、大洪水、特大洪水四个等级。

But what Gu Ji was curious about was the "loud noise".

What is the movement that can cause the river to suddenly surge before the tropical depression hits landfall.

He pondered for a moment.

"The glacier broke?"

"earthquake!?"

Gu Ji and Fatima spoke at the same time.

Anurag nodded with satisfaction, "It seems that both of you are very experienced. Assam is backed by the Himalayas, and the loud noise caused abnormal rivers. These two possibilities are the most likely. However, when the incident happened, local residents, Neither the military base nor the State Seismic Monitoring Center has detected any seismic activity, and I think the 'glacier break' that Vidi refers to is more likely!"

The reason why the glacier breaks off makes sense.

After all, the Himalayas are covered with snow all the year round, and the glacier cover is very thick. Large areas of glaciers break and fall, which will indeed cause a sudden surge in the water level of the river.

only……

"Minister, shouldn't the matter of river dams be under the control of the Minister of Water Resources? Why do you need the cooperation of the Minister of Agriculture?"

"The Minister of Water Resources, like the chief, also disappeared when the flood broke out. At present, there is no news of them from the Police Department and the Fire Department. I am afraid..."

Anurag sighed and didn't dare to speak any more.

It has been more than four hours since the flood broke out. At this time, no one can be found, and it is obvious that they have died.

"Which one is Vidi Dali?"

(End of this chapter)