Is there hail in Sichuan?

Strong convective weather caused a gale and rainstorm of magnitude 8, and the maximum diameter of hail was13cm, causing hundreds of thousands of people to be affected.

Our reporter learned from the Sichuan Disaster Relief Office last night that from noon on the 8th, there was the first large-scale convective weather in Sichuan Province since the spring. In some places, strong winds, heavy rains, hail and other disasters caused by strong convective weather have caused 13 deaths and 1 missing.

Last night, there was strong wind, hail and rainstorm in Chongqing. The wind force was as high as 8, the maximum diameter of hail was 13 cm, and the maximum rainfall was 140 mm. There were disasters in 8 districts and counties such as Qianjiang, Shizhu, Zhongxian, Pengshui, Dianjiang and Chengkou.

The Municipal Disaster Relief Office reported yesterday that as of 5: 30 pm yesterday, 458,800 people in 80 townships were affected by bad weather, 5 people were killed and 25 people were injured, and the direct economic loss was 65.438+0.4 billion yuan.

According to reports, this large-scale convective weather has a wide range, and the winds in 20 counties (cities) such as Guangyuan, Santai and Daxian in Sichuan have reached 7 or above; Heavy rains fell in counties and cities such as Leshan Central District, Emei Mountain City and Gaoxian County. Hail disasters occurred in some counties and districts of Leshan, Yibin, Dazhou and Guang 'an. According to the feedback from local disaster relief departments, the disasters in Leshan, Dazhou and Yibin are serious. According to the Chongqing Disaster Relief Office, five districts and counties in Zhongxian, Qianjiang, Shizhu, Pengshui and Dianjiang suffered serious losses in this disaster.

Hail with a diameter of about 1.3 cm occurred in Qianjiang District, which caused 6 towns and villages in this area to be affected, 2,7841houses were destroyed, many crops were lost, and the direct economic loss reached 35 million yuan.

After the disaster occurred, the responsible persons of Sichuan and Chongqing municipal governments immediately made arrangements for the disaster relief work, and sent disaster relief working groups to the disaster areas to understand the disaster situation, sympathize with the victims and guide the disaster relief work.

Comprehensive contributions from Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing Business Daily and Chengdu Business Daily.

■ Disaster situation

Chongqing: The direct economic loss reached 654.38+0.4 billion.

At about 8 o'clock last night, strong winds began to appear in nine districts and counties such as Qianjiang, Shizhu, Zhongxian, Pengshui, Zhongxian, Chengkou, Fengdu, Jiangjin and Dianjiang in Chongqing, accompanied by hail the size of eggs, and heavy rains continued to fall.

As of 5: 30 pm yesterday, 458,800 people were affected and 5,003 people were resettled. Five people were killed and 25 injured. The affected area of crops reached 346,000 mu, and 74,500 mu of crops were all destroyed by hail. Hail damaged 80,000 houses, 343 houses collapsed in the gale and hail, and the infrastructure of power, communication, radio and television in the disaster area was damaged to some extent.

The direct economic loss was 65.438+0.4 billion yuan. Director Chen of Qianjiang District Disaster Relief Office in Chongqing introduced that after the disaster, the district immediately sent more than 400 party member cadres to the front line of the disaster area, and 4 1690 victims had nowhere to live that night. Three of them were shot in the head while trying to avoid hail, but fortunately no serious injuries occurred.

Sichuan: Many villagers' houses were damaged by hail.

At 0: 00 am yesterday, the reporter learned from Ye Sheng, deputy secretary of Gaoxian County Committee of Yibin City, Sichuan Province that the hail in Gaoxian County started at around 20: 00 the day before yesterday and ended at 2 1 30 in the county. Ye Sheng described the scene and said that many villagers' houses were destroyed by hail. "Hail is about the size of an egg, and the small one is the size of a pea. However, due to the darkness, the specific situation of the loss is difficult to count.

This may be a rare large-scale damaged hail disaster in Gaoxian County in recent 20 years. "Ye Sheng said that the Gaoxian Meteorological Bureau conducted anti-aircraft gun operations on hail yesterday, but the hail still came.

According to the staff of Emei Mountain Meteorological Bureau, at 3: 55 pm the day before yesterday, there was heavy rain in Emei Mountain, reaching 63.3 mm at 8: 00 last night. "It is very rare to have such a heavy rain in April.

■ countermeasures

Fired 2000 shells to drive away the hail.

Since the evening of the previous day, artificial rainfall has been started to prevent hail in all parts of Chongqing. Up to now, according to incomplete statistics, nearly 2000 shells have been fired in 19 districts and counties. There is no hail disaster in the hail protection area (5-7.5 square kilometers). At present, artificial hail suppression is still on alert.

According to the introduction of the Municipal People's Office, at present, Fuling, Dazu, Yubei, Pengshui, Dianjiang, Kaixian and other 19 districts and counties have carried out operations, and more than one rocket 100 has been distributed, with nearly 2,000 shells. Director Li of the Meteorological Bureau of Yubei District introduced that since the afternoon before yesterday, all their staff have been in place to pay close attention to the movement of hail clouds. By the early morning of yesterday, the hail the size of peas suddenly fell, but after the anti-aircraft gun fired more than 60 shells, the thick hail cloud completely dispersed and turned into rain.

■ Tragedy

The illegal wall on the roof smashed through the sixth floor next door.

The illegal wall of a 9-story building in Dianjiang County, Chongqing was blown down by strong wind and smashed through the adjacent residential building, killing four people.

At 2 o'clock in the morning of April 9, the illegal building on the roof of a 9-story old residential building in Sheshe 5, Guixi Village, Guixi Town, Dianjiang County, Chongqing was blown down by strong wind, and the bricks fell on another residential building adjacent to the building, resulting in the master bedroom floor on the 6th floor 1 to the 6th floor being completely smashed, and two couples who were sleeping were killed.

The sixth floor is a "big funnel" with a height of18m.

On the morning of 9th 10, the reporter rushed to the scene. Armed police and fire officers and soldiers set up a cordon within 50 meters near the incident building to ensure the smooth rescue. At the bottom of the smashed residential building, there are piles of sundries dug out from the ground floor, and mattresses, quilts, furniture and books are mixed with soil to form a hill. 10 More than 0 armed police soldiers are using shovels, dustpans and steel crowbars. To clean up the smashed prefabricated panels and rescue the victims buried below. Looking up from 1 floor, a "big funnel" with a height of18m is formed on the 6th floor. Broken prefabricated panels, furniture and other things that may collapse at any time are hung around the funnel.

1 1 about 10: 00, the body of a victim was dug out of the precast slab slag and immediately carried to the funeral home to wait for a corpse truck. 12, the body of another victim was also carried out. The hands of the two deceased showed a tendency to raise their hands to block things, and their heads and feet were covered with blood, which was terrible.

The victims were two couples. It is understood that the deceased are Zhang and Ge Shihua, who live on the fifth and fourth floors respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Wang Yong, who are in their forties, are engaged in electrical business in the county town and have a good life. The couple have a daughter who is 10 years old. On the night of the incident, my daughter slept in a small bedroom, separated from the main bedroom by the living room. At 5 o'clock in the morning, my daughter got up to go to the toilet and saw the door of the room where her parents slept wide open. By the way, she took a look and found that the floor was gone and her parents were gone. Only then did she know that it was not good, woke up her neighbors and informed the nearby Chinese medicine hospital.

The other two deceased were elderly couples in their 60s. After retirement, they separated from their children here. At 7 o'clock in the morning, my son and daughter-in-law received a notice that two old people had an accident.

It is understood that these two residential buildings were built 10 years ago, one with 9 floors and the other with 6 floors.

According to Xia Mou, a staff member of the accident rescue team, Dianjiang County was hit by a strong wind of magnitude 8 on the evening of April 8, and the awnings on the windows of several residential buildings were blown away by the wind. A wall 1.3 meters high was built on the roof of that 9-story residential building. At about 2 am on the 9th, the wall was blown down by strong wind and fell on the roof of another 6-story residential building adjacent to it. Because the gap between the two buildings is three stories, nearly 10 meters high, under the action of gravity, the top floor of the six-story residential building was smashed through, and the floor slab plus the gravity acceleration of bricks with a height of 1 m 3 hit the bottom five floors. In this way, the second to sixth floors of the entire residential building were all smashed through.