Early in the morning, the mountain flood crashed into Zhejiang Yangtze village house: 1 dead, 3 people disappeared, and 781 people were evacuated from the outskirts of the Zhouta River in Henan.

In the early morning of Zhejiang, the disaster first fell on a household.

According to Xinhua news agency and Reuters reports on August 14, heavy rains in Zhejiang province's Yangzhou county caused mountain floods and mountain crashes, a house collapsed. rescue workers later confirmed that one person died, three others disappeared, and the search for rescue continues.

This is not an isolated situation in the rainy rains. Over the past week, China has suffered from extreme rainfall in several areas, with 13 weather stations breaking a single-day rain record. Typhoon “Dolphin” residual flow, cold air and seasonal reservoirs jointly affect the eastern and central southern regions of China, and the Tai Lake basin also faces the risk of formation of basin floods.

Hundreds of kilometers away from Hanoi, another scene appeared on the same day. After the end of the river dam, the local organization of 781 people transferred. Previously, Hanoi has been continuously facing high-intensity rainfall risk, while Hubei, Beijing and other places also experienced floods and traffic disruptions caused by the typhoon residual system.

Official data by Reuters showed that in July alone, China's natural disasters have caused 318 people to die or disappear, and direct economic losses of $571.5 billion.

Extreme weather cannot be determined by local governments, but the amount of loss caused by the disaster is directly related to the early warning of the arrival of villages, whether dangerous housing is checked in advance, whether the dams and reservoirs are long-termined, or whether evacuation orders can be quickly implemented at night. The collapse of the villa and the emergency evacuation of the district, exposing the two most basic layers of the disaster prevention system simultaneously: one occurred after the disaster hit the home, one occurred before the danger expanded.

China has one of the world’s largest water supply, meteorological and emergency management systems, and an administrative network from the center to the village.This is why, after every extreme rainfall, the public has the right to know not just a series of “how much rescue force is put in” numbers, but should also include when early warnings are issued, when to reach specific communities, whether dangerous points have been registered before, and how many evacuation times residents have been granted.

What the collapsed house ultimately needs to answer is whether people got enough information and opportunities to evacuate before the flood arrived; the 781 people who were transferred show that early action alone could change the outcome of the disaster.