Mianzhu Hanwang: Chronicle of Renai School on June 13 (Inspector’s Brief Notes)

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The land­slide lake has released flood­wa­ters
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At night, we rein­forced the dam
June 13, 2008: Detec­tive Radish’s Notes at Ren’ai School, Qunx­in Vil­lage (Quanx­in Vil­lage), Han­wang Town, Mianzhu, Sichuan

    
Because a thun­der­storm was fore­cast today, the chil­dren were told not to come to school. How­ev­er, some of them still showed up around 6 a.m. to help us sort the books and re-shelve them. We quick­ly sent them back when the sky turned cloudy.

     Just yes­ter­day, some­thing unfor­get­table hap­pened. Yes­ter­day, the land­slide-dammed lake was divert­ing flood­wa­ters. I heard the flow was out of con­trol, the water lev­el surged, and it sud­den­ly burst the bridge. Wang Wei and his friends from the Ren Ai Foun­da­tion, who had come from Mianzhu to vis­it, were strand­ed and unable to return. For­tu­nate­ly, after over an hour, the flood­wa­ters reced­ed below the bridge. That after­noon, fear­ing flood­ing would sub­merge the roads, the chil­dren from the school were evac­u­at­ed ear­ly. They were divid­ed into groups with­in the vil­lage and escort­ed home by vol­un­teers. While we were wait­ing for din­ner, sev­er­al vol­un­teers sta­tioned at the bot­tom of the slope brought word that the flood­wa­ters from the land­slide-dammed lake were so large that the exist­ing embank­ment might not be able to with­stand them. They urgent­ly need­ed man­pow­er. All the vol­un­teers present, except for Xiao Feng, a girl, and me, who was too will­ing and unable to go, all respond­ed! Xiong Liang took action with such gus­to, not even real­iz­ing he was a step ahead of the rest of the post-80s gen­er­a­tion. It was not until 1 a.m. that they came back cov­ered in mud. It turned out that they were fill­ing sacks with sand in the Hetao area. The Peo­ple’s Lib­er­a­tion Army sol­diers came in rounds, but they kept work­ing with their pas­sion. When­ev­er they felt exhaust­ed, they drank the eggs and por­ridge sent by the vil­lagers, and then start­ed work­ing hard again.
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The school is closed today
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Feng Ning and chil­dren
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Xiaowen and the chil­dren
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Pil­lar and Child
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The tug-of-war com­pe­ti­tion has begun
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It’s time to ring the gong
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Send the chil­dren home
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Who wrote it?
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It’s anoth­er rainy night