“But flooding events also cause lots of other disruption to people's lives: they destroy homes, businesses and crucial infrastructure, ruin financial prospects and can rob people of a life's worth of personal possessions.”

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“A bill of nearly $40,000 had arrived in the mail, and the family was trying to figure out how to pay it.”

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“Footage circulating on social media shows brown floodwater sweeping through residential communities, washing away cars, knocking down electricity poles and turning streets into rivers in Miyun. Dozens of roads have been damaged... the downpours have also cut off electricity... The heavy rainfall and the accompanying floods and geological disasters have caused “significant casualties and property losses” in Beijing and the northern provinces of Hebei, Jilin and Shandong... a landslide, which collapsed houses, cut off roads and knocked out electricity and signal.”

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