While the outside world was focused on how Typhoon Bavi would make landfall on the evening of July 11, many areas in Hebei Province, including Tangshan and Chengde, were already experiencing severe flooding by the morning of the 11th. Nearly 100,000 people in Beijing had been evacuated the previous day (July 10), and on the evening of the 11th, some sections of roads in Yanjiao were flooded up to waist-deep. On the morning of the 12th, Beijing l…
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While the outside world was focused on how Typhoon Bavi would make landfall on the evening of July 11, many areas in Hebei Province, including Tangshan and Chengde, were already experiencing severe flooding by the morning of the 11th. Nearly 100,000 people in Beijing had been evacuated the previous day (July 10), and on the evening of the 11th, some sections of roads in Yanjiao were flooded up to waist-deep. On the morning of the 12th, Beijing l…