1On August 2nd, 922, the typhoon from the Pacific Ocean went straight to Shantou. According to Chaozhou county records, the wind began to increase at 3 pm on August 2, and increased at dusk. At 9 o'clock in the evening, the typhoon landed and the earthquake destroyed the house.
At 3 am on the 3rd, the wind increased to 12, and the tide followed. The sea water rose sharply by 3.6 meters, and all the coastal dikes 150 km burst. Wild waves like waterfalls enter the city, and the sound of flying tiles falling on the wall is endless.
The average depth of Shantou city is 3 meters, and Wang Yang, a coastal village. "Cai Sheng" was blown to Pengru Mountain outside Cocoon Island, and "Shandong" was placed on the mountainside of Gouniang Han. Two small steamboats from Chaoshan covered the mountainside of Houxi and Butterfly in Chaoyang County.
Six counties 1 cities in Shantou were devastated, with more than 70,000 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. 5/6 residents in Shantou were affected, half of the houses collapsed and more than 2,000 people were killed.
Forty thousand people were killed in Chenghai County, no one lives, Waisha Village. After the disaster, Lushe was a market, with corpses everywhere, rotting corpses floating on the water, clothes and shoes hanging on the trees, and broken boats on the top of the mountain, which were still being collected at the end of the month. No crops were planted in the cultivated land submerged by seawater, and the well water was salty and unpalatable, which was only desalinated after two years. This is the most deadly typhoon disaster in China in the 20th century.
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1969 On July 28th, a typhoon with the intensity equivalent to 1922 hit Shantou head-on. It also coincides with the astronomical tide, Shantou area broke through the highest tide level in history, and the cocoon increased water by 3. 14 meters. The average inflow of water in Shantou city is 2-3 meters, and even more than 4 meters in the suburbs.
The consequences of this matter are very serious. In Shantou area alone, more than 4 1 000 houses collapsed, more than 3,500 warehouses and factories collapsed, dikes collapsed for hundreds of kilometers, farmland was flooded 1.4 million mu, and thousands of people died.
"July 28" is a huge storm and tsunami under the action of super typhoon and astronomical tide, and the wave is as high as 10 meter, which is the biggest storm and tsunami in China so far.
In this disaster, Niu Tianyang has also become the most important disaster. In order to block the exit of seawall No.62, officers and men joined hands with students to form a dike, shouting slogans such as "Man in the dike" and "Man can conquer nature" to compete with the typhoon. However, due to the strong wind and waves, the levee breach cannot be blocked. When the sea washed into Niu Tianyang, 553 soldiers and students died to protect the levee.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-1922 Typhoon Shantou
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