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"Red Heart Moon" a WEST MEETS EAST China Weblog -- by Kevin Hart Cross-cultural musings about life straddling the Pacific. Monday, July 9, 2007 Yangtze Flood 2007 It has not been a fast flood or flash flood, but the water on this section of the Yangtze near Chongqing is swelling, and swelling some more, and we all wait to see how high it actually gets before receding. This is the highest I remember over my 8 years on the river, and the water line is almost to the top of the grass embankment above docks 7, 8 and 9 near Chaotianmen right downtown. It still would have to rise 20 more metres or so in the city to flood the lower level streets, but with this volume, I can't say it is impossible. This is a quick update, with more to come...
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