Sleepless nights on China’s dykes as floods hit 34 million people

Saturday was another sleepless night for Wu Shengsong.It was his fifth in a row on patrol duty on the banks of the Xi River in Poyang county, Shangrao, east China’s Jiangxi province.Soon after he started his shift, lightning lit up the sky and thunder rolled in the distance. Wu stood silent and still, fearful of the storm gathering above his head and the stability of the ground beneath his feet.“I’m a little worried,” he said. “The forecast is for several days of rain.”Wu works as an official…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3092822/sleepless-nights-chinas-dykes-floods-hit-34-million-people