Death toll rises to 40 in rainstorms in E China

时间：2007-07-24 01:06:50

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JINAN, July 21 -- The death toll1 from rainstorms in east China's Shandong Province had risen to 40 by Friday, the provincial2 civil affairs bureau announced Saturday.

 

Nine remained missing after the torrential rains started to hit the province on Wednesday and 197 were injured. The previous death toll was 32 by Thursday, bureau officials said.

 

About 559,200 people were affected3, of whom 112,600 were evacuated4.

 

Jinan, Shandong's capital and the worst-hit city, received up to 118 mm of precipitation in an hour during Wednesday's rainstorm.

 

Officials with the Shandong Department of Water Resources said the rainstorm was the worst since 1916 when Jinan began to collect hydrologic data.

 

The water level was 23.58 meters in the Huangtaiqiao hydrologic station of Jinan at 8:24 p.m. on Wednesday, 1.04 meters above the danger line.

 

Thirty-four people died in the city in collapsed5 buildings and submerged vehicles, or by electrocution.

 

The rainstorm, the worst this year to hit Shandong, also disrupted traffic and electricity and water supply for three hours.

 

Thirteen large and medium-sized reservoirs in the province have seen their water levels surpass the danger line by 8 a.m. Saturday and six of them had to open sluice6 to discharge flood water.

 

All the large and medium-sized reservoirs in Shandong have stored 3 billion cubic meters of water on Saturday, 900 million cubic meters more than the normal level, as it rained continuously since Wednesday.

 

The Shandong provincial government has allocated7 10 million yuan (1.3 million U.S. dollars) in disaster relief funds to Jinan and delivered 3,000 quilts.

 
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1 toll LJpzo     
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
参考例句：
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
3 affected TzUzg0     
adj.不自然的，假装的
参考例句：
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
4 evacuated b2adcc11308c78e262805bbcd7da1669     
撤退者的
参考例句：
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
5 collapsed cwWzSG     
adj.倒塌的
参考例句：
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
6 sluice fxYwF     
n.水闸
参考例句：
  • We opened the sluice and the water poured in.我们打开闸门，水就涌了进来。
  • They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.他们用水闸门控制水的流量。
7 allocated 01868918c8cec5bc8773e98ae11a0f54     
adj. 分配的 动词allocate的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
  • The Ford Foundation allocated millions of dollars for cancer research. 福特基金会拨款数百万美元用于癌症研究。
  • More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations. 现在会拨更多的资金给慈善组织。

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