At about 4 a.m. on September 14, 1973, Super Typhoon No. 7314 made landfall in Qionghai City, Hainan Province, with a central wind force of 73 meters and seconds, a maximum gust of more than 85 m s, and a wind force of more than 70 m s, and the air pressure certified by the CMA agency at the time of landfall was 925 Pa. Super Typhoon No. 7314 has a particularly small circulation and great lethality. The wind swept through 7 cities and counties, including Qionghai, Wanning, Ding'an, Tunchang, Baisha, Changjiang and Dongfang. This is the strongest typhoon to make landfall in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The entire Hainan Island did not fully count 903 deaths on the spot, especially in Qionghai City. According to territorial statistics, the death toll in Qionghai City reached 771, 1,531 were seriously injured, 3,825 were slightly injured, and more than 50,000 houses collapsed. Note: The above data is taken from the Internet.
The day after the super typhoon No. 7314 in Hainan, two farmers and I from Guangzhou took the Hongwei reincarnation from Guangzhou to the southern farm in Qiongzhong County, Hainan Island, due to a family visit holiday. After more than 20 hours of sailing, the passenger ship gradually approached its destination, and when it was about an hour away from the Xiuying Port Wharf in Haikou, a scene strongly attracted our attention - there were wooden planks, wood, wooden boxes, wooden cabinets, dead pigs, dead cows, sundries and other things floating everywhere on the sea. Seeing this scene, we have predicted that this typhoon has brought profound disasters to Hainan Island. At seven o'clock in the morning, the Red Guard ship safely docked at the Xiuying Port Wharf. In the morning of the same day, the three of us got on a long-distance bus with an uneasy mood and embarked on the journey from Haikou City to Tunchang to Wupo. Looking out through the glass window of the car, all that catches your eyes along the way is the miserable scene after the typhoon**, landslides, collapsed houses, broken or uprooted trees, and so on.
The car came to a stop near the bus terminal in the town of Wupo. We worked together, and the two of us were responsible for carrying my carry-on luggage and getting off the bus and picking up the checked luggage, so I hurried to the station to buy a ticket from Wupo to Sihe (Sihe was the terminal of the long-distance bus that we used to go back to the farm, located near the southern farm department). But unexpectedly;As a result of the super typhoon, the entire long-distance bus terminal in Wupo town collapsed and was left in ruins, and a large old parasol and a worn-out wooden desk on the side of the road became a ticket office. After inquiring ahead, due to the impact of the typhoon, the water of Wanquan River swelled and overflowed more than one meter from the Hekou Bridge of the First Team of Nanfang Farm, and there was no shuttle bus to Sihe for two days. This news is like a bolt from the blue for us, you know, there is still 18 kilometers from Wupo to Sihe. At this time, Wupo Town was full of collapsed houses, and there were many stranded people, and it was impossible to find a hotel. What to do?What to do?In addition, the more than 200 catties of "pre-support materials" (carry-on luggage) and a box of nearly 100 catties of checked luggage collected from the homes of more than 10 or 20 Guangzhou educated youths of the company, if we want to return to the company one day earlier, there is only one way in front of us -- to carry the heavy burden and walk back to the farm. At more than 11 o'clock at noon, after filling my stomach casually, I temporarily put the checked luggage in Wupo Hospital and handed it over to Yang Guangping, a Guangzhou educated youth of the 17th Company, for safekeeping, (Yang Guangping had just given birth to a child in Wupo Hospital for a few days) and then divided the carry-on luggage into three picks and set off towards the farm, I picked a burden of more than 80 pounds, and the remaining two picks were more than 80 pounds and more than 50 pounds of burdens, which were replaced by Chen Huanqing and Li Weilan. Anyone who has experienced a strong typhoon will know it;Because after the typhoon passed a few days, there will be no dark clouds in the sky, but the sun is very violent, especially in Hainan Island, which is located in the tropical ** zone, in the hot weather of 378 degrees Celsius, under the scorching sun, the heavy burden of the long journey on the uneven winding dirt road washed by the storm, the hard work is self-evident. At that time, there were no street lights on the roads in the mountains, and there were no shops along the way, so we had to return to the first production team of the farm before dark, and we could only rush desperately, sweat soaked our clothes and pants and went straight into our shoes, we were so tired, we stopped to rest for a few minutes, thirsty, and started It is to eat a fruit (mandarin) brought back from Guangzhou, and then only three people can share an orange, and then there are no oranges, so I had to buy a bottle of 500 ml of "cough drop" in a small shop that I rarely met and drank it for everyone to drink. The skin on his shoulders was torn by the heavy burden, and he continued walking with a towel. At seven o'clock in the evening, we finally walked to the first production team of the Southern Farm with an extremely tired body that hardly belonged to us. At this time, the water depth of the bridge deck of the Hekou Bridge was still more than one meter, and there was no guardrail on the bridge, and the beast-like flood roared and constantly hit the large stones protruding from the water in the river, making loud noises, mercilessly blocking vehicles and pedestrians on both banks. The riverside of the No. 1 production team was already full of Jiefang cars loaded with "cucumbers" to support the disaster area, because the cucumbers had been stored in the car exposed to the scorching sun for too long and all turned into stinky "cucumber paste", and the other side of the river was also full of vehicles and people who could not cross the bridge. In the evening of the same day, we were warmly received by the Guangzhou educated youth of the first production team and Mr. Cai Yuangong, an old worker. This day is really tired, we finished eating in Lao Cai's room, it was already more than ten o'clock after taking a bath, and slept in a bed with a team of Guangzhou educated youths at night, and I fell asleep soon after lying down. The next morning, I got up at dawn, borrowed a dilapidated bicycle from Gu Zhiwei, a young man from Guangxi Province (he was also trapped in this team) from the farm communication class, without the right pedal and brakes, and rushed all the way to Wupo with a rope. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the water level on the bridge deck was only about 20 centimeters high, and at this time, the farm had already sent bulldozers and relevant personnel, who pulled up their trouser legs and held a small flag in their hands, and stood at key positions on the bridge deck, directing the bulldozers to drag the cars on both sides of the river back and forth across the bridge one by one. At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the three of us took our luggage and got on a Nanjing-brand truck driven by Comrade Sun Ping, a young man from Xu Wen, and drove 13 kilometers from the field to the 15th Company of the adjacent team, which was two kilometers away from the 17th Company. Since the 15th to the 17th Company had to cross a river without a bridge, the river was usually about 20 meters wide and only about 20 centimeters deep
However, due to the impact of this typhoon and flash flood, the width of the river was several times larger, the water depth was at least more than two meters, and the speed of the water was quite alarming, so we could not return to the 17th Company that day. That night, we stayed in the 15th Company, and we were also warmly received by the 15th Company Guangzhou educated youth. Really;Natural disasters are merciless, people are merciful, and true feelings are seen everywhere in the world.
The next morning, because we were really worried about the brothers and sisters of the 17th Company, after eating porridge, we left Li Weilan and the luggage in the 15th Company, and Chen Huanqing and I hurriedly went to inspect the water situation. When the road to the 17th Company was still blocked by the turbulent river, we had to make a big circle, went to the opposite bank of the camp of the 17th Company, where the river was a little narrower, and went into the water on the opposite bank, put our clothes on our heads, wore only a pair of basketball pants, and swam desperately to the other side of the river in the turbulent water with one hand and both feet. But I was stunned by what I saw;The Guangzhou educated youth boy's house that we worked so hard to build has disappeared without a trace, and the company is a mess, full of clothes, cotton tires, mosquito nets, blankets, wooden boxes, bed boards, etc. The rubber grove behind the house is full of rubber trees that have been blown down and scraped by the typhoon
The milky white glue from the scraped rubber trees turned the entire rubber forest white, and all kinds of floating debris washed by the flood were left everywhere on ......the basketball courtAs soon as the intellectuals in Guangzhou, who had endured the torture of this super typhoon in the company, saw us, they all hugged each other regardless of gender, and the female intellectuals cried and shouted: "You are back, you are back......."Who else would be stingy with their tears at this moment?The complex that the educated youth have in the common suffering!Make everyone more united and more fraternal.
Later, I learned that due to the impact of this super typhoon, the torrential rain continued to fall, and the continuous mountains were like countless huge houses carrying a large amount of rainwater, and the rainwater collected in the valley and fell rapidly down the mountain stream, resulting in flash floods. The Wanquan River in the 17th Company swelled by more than 10 meters, and the entire company and nearly 100 acres of rice fields of the Miao people on the other side of the river were connected by the flood, becoming a vast ocean, and even seabirds flew in flocks, hovering over the "vast ocean" in the deep mountains, looking for those small fish that had been knocked out by the flood to feed their hunger. All the personnel of the company, under the command of the company leaders, ran to the rubber groves on higher ground to escape the raging torrent. As the houses in the company were flooded by the rapid flood, all the quilts, clothes, furniture, and everything else were soaked in the muddy floodwaters.
As the saying goes: easy to rise and easy to retreat. The flash flood came quickly, but it also went quickly, and the day after the super typhoon, the water level dropped by six or seven meters, and the typhoon and the flash flood had passed, but what did it leave behind?The company was muddy, littered with dead branches, vines, weeds, and debris that had been swept away by the flood. The vegetables in the vegetable field are gone, leaving only pebbles, pigsty and pigs all over the place, leaving only a piece of rubble, even the dried salted radish stored in the canteen, fortunately through everyone's efforts, some of the rice in the warehouse has been saved. The typhoon has passed, but it has left people with arduous post-disaster recovery work and hard life, and people are working hard and working hard every day, eating salt-soaked rice. On the second day after the typhoon, the Guangzhou intellectuals of our company worked together to wash the inner and outer clothes of all the men and women who had been soaked in mud water by the river, and the men were responsible for carrying and drying all the men's and women's inner and outer clothes, including bras and menstrual belts, which fully embodied the spirit of friendship and mutual help in the common adversity. Fortunately, this super typhoon and heavy flash flood did not cause serious personnel accidents to the company.
After the three of us returned to the team, we obtained the consent of the company leader, took a few days off, and the first time was to carry our mud-soaked cotton tires soaked in the flood to the clear river water that has been restored to be cleaned, because a quilt weighing ** pounds has a weight of about 200 pounds after absorbing water, Chen Huanqing and I had to work together to lift the washed cotton tires one by one from the river and put them under the scorching sun
And it is necessary to constantly beat the rattan constantly to make the cotton as elastic as possible. The second is to seize the time to rebuild the small home, go up the mountain to find a kind of tree called "Shizimu" (also called "sixty years"), cut down the outer layer and split off, only take the strong tree heart to make the wooden pillar of the thatched house, dig the pillar hole, cut the bamboo, cut the stringers, cut the thatch, beat the thatch, paste the mud wall, build the stove, etc., through the joint efforts of everyone, with our diligent hands, in a few days in the original site to build a small house larger than the original. Immediately afterwards, he devoted himself to the arduous post-disaster self-rescue work of the company.
I spent eight years on Hainan Island as an educated youth, and during these eight long years, I have experienced countless typhoons, but only this super typhoon has left me with indelible memories.
Author: Fu Yaoxin.