Li Sa looked at the door of the club. There was a flat glass door with a door frame. The outer door was sensor-operated and would open at any slightest sign of trouble. The inner door was a glass door that required swiping a card to enter the lobby.
Both the owner and the property management staff have cards, but because of the rain and wind, the sensor on the outer door always triggers by mistake, so now I turn off the sensor device and manually open an outer door. This allows for ventilation. The disadvantage is that it requires Cleaners often wipe away water stains brought in by wind and rain.
Now a lot of water poured in from the open sensor door. The shallow waterproof line of the inner door where the card was swiped could no longer stop it, and a large amount of water flooded into the lobby.
The design of the clubhouse pursues barrier-free entry and exit, so that wheelchairs can enter by themselves. The height difference between the indoor and outdoor areas is slightly adjusted by a gentle slope of less than ten centimeters. Nowadays, water is flooding into the room so quickly. Either there is too much water or there may be a problem with the drainage system outside the door. Only by clearing the outside in time can the water problem be completely solved.
Jiang Mei casually threw her bag inside the front desk and arranged for people to mop the floor. She found an iron hook and went out to clean the drain outside the door with an umbrella. In the past, dead branches and leaves often blocked those delicate stone drainage holes. If they were opened, the drainage would definitely be faster.
The other housekeepers didn't have Jiang Mei's sense of responsibility, so they just wiped the floor alone. They were still talking and complaining, saying that their belongings were all in the dormitory and they didn't know if they could apply for compensation. Some people even whispered why Li Sa only took Jiang Mei's things and didn't help everyone else.
Li Sa secretly smiled bitterly. If she had just been greedy and helped other people in the dormitory pack their things, she would have fallen into the ground along with the building. How could she still stand here and listen to their complaints?
Jiang Mei walked out of the main entrance of the club and discovered that the drainage holes outside the door were not blocked, but water was gurgling upwards. It felt like small fountains.
She used the iron hook in her hand to pry open a drainage stone slab, and found that the ditch that was once empty and filled with fallen leaves had long been filled with water. She was very surprised. She walked along several drainage ditches around the club and saw that they were all like this. Without any delay, she ran to the underground property office to report to Director Li.
When I walked to the basement, I found that there was water on the basement floor, and there were still water dripping from some pipes. This shows that the entire drainage system is not smooth.
The stray dog that Director Li often feeds takes shelter from the rain at the basement door. It barks twice when it sees people and looks very anxious.
Jiang Mei came from a rural area and had experienced floods. The dog she had raised at home was also very restless before the floods. Her ominous premonition became even stronger.
Walking to the basement, she quickly grabbed Director Li: "Director, don't stay in the basement. The drains outside are filled with water, and there is also water in the basement corridor. Water has entered the first floor of the clubhouse. The threshold on your side is The height cannot stop the water from pouring in.”
Director Li also realized that the problem was serious. He had seen such heavy rains for more than ten or twenty years, but he had never seen water leaking out of the drainage system. He took his mobile phone and tool bag, took out another large plastic bag, filled two bags with the community engineering drawing file box he had just found, wrapped the whole package in a poncho, and left the office.
The office was locked, so he locked it tightly when he went out. When he went up to the basement exit, he saw that water had crossed the water-blocking door stone and flowed toward the basement.
He quickly opened the flood control supplies cabinet next to him, got a few sandbags, and set them up at the door. The threshold, which was originally less than five centimeters high, became more than twenty centimeters high, finally temporarily blocking the flow of water flowing into the basement. He also closed the escape door leading to the outside to first block the rain that was blown into the building by the wind.
As soon as he came out, Director Li clearly felt that the situation was different from when he returned to the office with an umbrella. The storm outside was much more violent than before.
There was water on the permeable brick pavement that usually kept him dry even when it rained. He was wearing leather shoes issued by the property management staff, and the water directly covered his feet and soaked his socks. In fact, when he came back from outside just now, his shoes and socks were already wet, so he never bothered to change them.
Jiang Mei wore the Oxford workwear non-slip cloth shoes issued by the cleaning department. The soles were slightly higher, but they had already been soaked, so holding an umbrella was useless. From the basement entrance to the main entrance of the club, my whole body has already been wet by the wind and rain.
Jiang Mei led Director Li to personally look at the water drains along the way, and Director Li frowned more and more. The two hurriedly arrived at the monitoring room on the first floor of the club.
According to regulations, the monitoring room must be built on the first floor, with a separate entrance and exit. Although it is part of the first floor of the club, it is located on a relatively high ground and requires three steps to reach it. Fortunately, the rain only reached the first step, and the entire monitoring room floor was dry, so water couldn't get in for a while.
The property management staff on duty were extremely busy, and the surveillance screen was filled with red dots of alarms. The drainage of the park and the municipal drainage are connected together. Now there must be a problem with the municipal pipe network, so the drainage wells in the community will leak water. However, neither Director Li nor the superior department knew what the problem was, and this needed to be investigated step by step.
Fortunately, there is a large lake in the entire villa park. Water from high areas flows along the roads in the park towards the low-lying lake. The water level of the lake is gradually rising. Generally speaking, it is still below the warning line and can be sustained for a while.
The landline phone in the monitoring room also kept ringing. When I picked it up, I heard that the basement of some house had been flooded, the pump was not working, and the sofa was floating.
Director Li laid out the water supply and drainage drawings of the community, but found no further hints of connections to the outside world, only water collection tube wells connected to several surrounding municipal roads. Those places are generally managed by municipal departments, and the property management companies in the residential areas on both sides of the road have no right to open the manhole covers on the municipal roads to check for problems. Besides, the property management companies have no redundant manpower at all.
Director Li's walkie-talkie rang, and it was maintenance team boss Wang who answered.
The dangerous situation on the west wall still requires the maintenance team Lao Wang to direct everyone to rescue, and rescuing people should be given priority. Li Sa said before that four people entered the building. Although the building fell into a crack in the ground, it could still be seen from the ground. He threw a long rope down and called the communication. If the people were still alive and awake, they would probably respond. The rope might be able to rescue him.
Some employees also grabbed supplies from other houses that had been tilted. At this time, it is very rare to have a piece of plastic sheet to cover the rain. Many products have internal plastic packaging, such as instant noodles and bottled water. Although they are placed in cartons, no one bothers to cover them with a layer of plastic sheet. They are all nearby. Find a flat place to temporarily store them in the rain. Anyway, the carton is broken and the plastic packaging inside can’t get wet.
An hour later, when Li Sa saw other property employees using battery trucks to transport a lot of materials that had been soaked by water, he realized that the master had made a key point: in principle, those things that had been soaked by water could no longer be used. Eat it again.
Bottled water and ordinary plastic paper packaging are not vacuum-sealed items and can easily become contaminated after floods. For example, bottled mineral water or beverages can be opened by ordinary people with just a twist. In heavy rain, it is easy for contaminants invisible to the naked eye to enter the bottle.
In particular, the waste from the nearby chemical plant is leaking, and the air and rain are filled with a pungent smell. It is possible that these substances landed on the packaging and ultimately caused contamination.
