A flood monitoring and warning system in Guangxi accurately predicted a flash flood in a village, The Paper reported. The system evacuated more than 100 residents from a high-risk area and avoided any casualties.<\/p>\n
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has recently experienced heavy rainfall. At 4 pm on June 30, the region\u2019s water resources department and the meteorological bureau jointly issued a flood warning.<\/p>\n
They sent an alert and predicted a high likelihood of floods in Rong\u2019an county from 8 pm on June 30 to 8 pm on July 1 before urging local authorities to conduct monitoring, inspections, warnings and evacuation measures.<\/p>\n
At 4:02 am on July 1, the Guangxi flood monitoring and forecasting system detected that rainfall in Si\u2019an village, Rong\u2019an county, had reached 43.5 mm between 3 pm and 4 am, triggering a pre-evacuation warning.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s water resources bureau immediately issued a pre-evacuation warning to village and town officials.<\/p>\n
At 6 am, a flash flood hit the village, collapsing 12 houses and damaging 13 others. Thanks to the warning system, 37 households, totaling 112 people, had been evacuated beforehand.<\/p>\n
There were no casualties during the flood.<\/p>\n
The Guangxi Water Resources Department has established a tiered warning response mechanism to ensure a closed-loop response.<\/p>\n
Upon receiving heavy rain warnings, the city-level water resources bureau alerts the county-level bureau. The regional flash flood monitoring and forecasting system issues real-time warnings, which responsible individuals acknowledge via text. If no response is received within 10 minutes, the system automatically calls the accountable person using AI voice calls.<\/p>\n