“In recent days, intense rainstorms have battered much of northern China – a densely populated part of the country home to massive metropolises as well as agricultural heartlands. There, residents and their livelihoods have become increasingly vulnerable to worsening summer storms and floods... More than 80,000 people have been relocated... Dozens of roads have been damaged... In the coastal province of Shandong, flash floods destroyed 19 houses in foothill villages last week...”

Streets turn to rivers as deadly flooding inundates northern Beijing | CNN