The rainstorm isn't at all stopping
Right now we don't have any electricity or gas
So we can't eat breakfast
We need to walk to Yangshuo to find some food
But before we go to Yangshuo we want to go to the Yulong River to have a look
how it is by the river
See if the river has flooded
Before these were all field, now it's become a pool
I'm really not sure if we'll be able to reach the Yulong
Maybe we won't be able to walk there, we'll just have to come back
Maybe the water will be up to here on us, let's go have a look
Look at this river!
There's no way through
Let's see how deep it is
Yeah
Okay, let's go back
The Yulong river is still about one kilometer away
But we can't get there
I think it will be very dangerous, first we'll go back
Let's come again tomorrow
I also don't know what this guy's doing
What are you doing?
Fish
Fish? You're not afraid there's snakes?
There's no snakes right now
He wants to catch fish, see if there's any fish
But it was pretty evident he hadn't caught any
Oh my god! He's so brave!
Originally this was a road
It led to our hostel
But right now everything's flooded
We don't have proper raincoats and wellies, basically we can't cross
Look, I just have these shoes
This road leads to Yangshuo, it's the only road
Right now we can't get to Yangshuo
That was when we realised we were trapped
Our whole village, 5km or so away from the river, was flooded with water
The roads on both sides had turned to rivers
At that time, we still didn’t know that the situation elsewhere was much worse
What food do have left?
Bread
For the customers
and a lemon
a pepper
and three sweetcorns
that's it
One day's food?
Definitely not enough
Our only option is to borrow (food)
Right now you can't see clearly what's happening in front of us
So we want to go to our friend's house and have a look
Their house is over there
Maybe the field of vision is better
Hello guys!
We figured you've got a really good view up there
对啊
We want to see what the scale of it is
Yeah, come have a look
Wow
Oh they're lifeboats
Oh shit
There's really nothing that we can do
I'm gonna take a walk later on, like I wanna take my GoPro
put some whatever...
Mhmm
Take a long walk
Our fridge doesn't have any food
So we can't go out either
and right now a friend from Yangshuo is coming over
to bring us some stuff
I reckon he won't be able to come in (to the village)
because the water's too deep
Poor little chicken
I think it's a little bit deeper than when we were here before again
Is it really deep up there?
It's all up to about your waist, it's all flooded here
It's all flooded?
It's more serious inside - the whole of Yangshuo has been flooded
Where have you guys come from?
Chongqing
Came here to travel?
Right now you want to leave? That might be difficult
Flood waters poured through our village into Yangshuo from the Yulong River
Though it had stopped raining here
water was still filtering down from the mountains and further upstream
Because this afternoon we haven't had electricity or internet
So right now the villagers have all come out to chat
Woman, men, children, adults
Let's go have a chat
Was there also flooding here before?
Yeah, yeah
It flooded before?
Yeah
That year it came up to here?
Up to here
Does it rain torrentially once every year?
no, no, just that time
I came to this village 64 years ago
The worse I've seen is when the water rose to here
That was 2017?
Yeah
Right now we're at West Street to come check out the level of the floodwater
This is the Li River
In one night the water retreated from here to there
Decreased so much
Right now 90% of Yangshuo's shops
Whether they're selling clothes or
restaurants or another kind of store
they're all tidying up the mess
they have to sweep out the water
It's likely none of them can do any business today
I heard the people here say every year there's a flood here there'll be lots of
merchandise thrown out, people don't want them
For example clothes, shoes, jewelry
You picked this up?
Yeah
They don't want it?
Nah
This is agate
You don't want this either?
You want it?
If you don't want it I'll take it
Then go ahead
Thanks boss haha
There's free rice noodles on the ground
All yours
Hahaha
So handy!
This is Yangshuo's government
supply station for defense against natural calamities
To provide people free water and food
This seems like it's a generator
You can use it to charge for free, gonna charge my phone
Then let's get some food and drink
We haven't eaten for two days
Hello, can I get some?
Sure you can
I'd like to get a double portion
Okay
For two people?
Yeah
Thanks!
Here's a bag to carry it with
I don't need a bag
We've got a bag, we've got a bag
Okay okay
You guys are so great
Thank the government
Sewer
You mustn't miss your step, if you take a bad step you'll fall in
and won't be able to come back out
This road is also gross
We spent most of the day
going from wreckage to wreckage
So gross
Here
You can see from here
My uncle's house was flooded up to here
The raging water had made trouble for a lot of people
But one thing I’ve learnt is
the people confronting the flood's resilience and ability to recover
Despite this natural calamity
everyone got on with their lives
I never heard anyone complain
After 48 hours
our village was pretty much back to normal
Yangshuo could return to its natural splendour once again