The wind gusts were strong and it rained heavily.
A staff sergeant in the duty room stared nervously at the fax machine. After the beeping sound stopped, the fax machine spit out a piece of emergency weather information.
He picked it up, glanced at it, and saw the word "Urgent". He jumped up like clockwork and rushed out of the door. He rushed to Xue Zhengrong's room and knocked hard, "Report! Mr. Xue, the Southern Meteorological Observatory is reporting an emergency! "
Xue Zhengrong, who had not been asleep for an hour, sat up reflexively and rushed to the door, opened it suddenly and turned on the room light, snatching it away and looking at it quickly.
"What are you afraid of? Call an emergency gathering and activate the plan! Everyone is ready to fight the storm!" Xue Zhengrong gave the order decisively.
"yes!"
Xue Zhengrong looked at the time, it was one fifteen in the morning.
At the same time as the emergency assembly whistle sounded, an emergency assembly could be heard in the distance at the reef guarding camp. Undoubtedly, the entire island and reef took action almost at the same time. Other local agencies, business units, engineering teams at construction sites, and ports all woke up and quickly activated emergency plans.
Forgotten Reef has just received a large amount of supplies, and its previous defenses have not reached a level that can protect against storms. Therefore, the storage yard and warehouse at the dock suddenly became the focus of attention.
Li Hai jumped out of bed almost at the same time as Dang Weimin.
After listening carefully, Li Hai said loudly, "It's a non-military plan!"
Before the flight yesterday afternoon, Xue Zhengrong first asked them to learn the plan system on the islands and reefs. Each plan has different requirements. Which plan to implement will be notified through the emergency muster whistle. There are not many emergency plans, and most of them are based on the surrounding weather.
It took fifteen seconds to put on the marine camouflage training uniform and camouflage rubber shoes. Li Hai grabbed his brain belt and rushed out, followed closely by the party for the people. The two of them rushed to the designated location and lined up to assemble.
The government building is also an accommodation building, a comprehensive building combined into one. The open space in front of the building is the gathering place. Li Zewen and Wang Jiu also woke up. They appeared in the corridor and watched the troops gathering urgently.
Li Zewen looked up and observed the sky and said, "A storm is forming."
Wang Jiu stretched out his hand to feel the slightly cold wind, licked his lips and said, "I'm afraid it will intensify into a typhoon."
They are all veteran sailors who have been on the sea all year round, and they immediately have relatively accurate judgments.
"Summer and autumn are typhoon-prone seasons, so it's not surprising. They have rich experience in dealing with them," Li Zewen said.
Wang Jiu said, "When we were berthing, I saw a lot of supplies piled up on their dock, and they didn't take any measures to prevent wind and typhoons. Chief ship, do you want to mobilize our people to help?"
"Well, you inform me first and I'll go find Xiao Xue." Li Zewen put on the coat he was wearing.
The officers and soldiers at Wangjijiao Airport quickly completed their assembly, and Xue Zhengrong reported the situation: "Comrades! Receive an emergency report from the higher-level meteorological station! A tropical storm has appeared to the southeast of us! It is moving towards me at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour! There is something! The trend of developing into a strong typhoon! According to the emergency plan requirements! From now on, all personnel will be involved in wind protection and typhoon resistance! We only have seven hours! My request is! Complete the wind protection and typhoon resistance deployment of this field as soon as possible! There are piles of goods piled up on the pier We have a lot of supplies to support our Marine Corps brothers!”
After a brief mobilization, each group quickly took action. The wind prevention and typhoon resistance plan is detailed to the specific work of each team member, which can be said to be the rule of exhaustive planning. The airport, flight squadron, maintenance squadron, meteorological observatory, field maintenance squadron, command team, and several company-level units that are almost not full of staff make up the force commanded by Xue Zhengrong.
He usually jokes that this unit with only about 200 people but supporting an operational airport with a three-thousand-meter runway should be called the Special Aviation Tactical Group. However, since he only has four J-8Fs in his hands, the so-called group It really doesn’t live up to its name.
The most important thing about an airport is, of course, the planes. The two J-8Fs parked on the open-air apron were quickly pulled into a semi-buried permanent hangar for protection, and all support vehicles and equipment were moved to a safe indoors.
More officers and soldiers used windproof and anti-typhoon materials to strengthen things that are easy to fall, such as trees, etc.
Perhaps considering that Li Hai and Dang Weimin were new arrivals and pilots, they were assigned to follow the people from the field maintenance squadron to reinforce the trees around the airport, doing these relatively easy and simple tasks.
Li Hai did not hesitate at all. He formed a team with the Party and the People and used hollow steel pipes to form tripods to fix trees as thick as calves. The wind is gradually increasing, one after another, which is the most obvious sign before the storm is coming.
Suddenly, the street lights went out.
Obviously, in order to ensure the safety of power supply, the power supply station temporarily cut off domestic electricity. Radar stations, meteorological observatories, desalination stations, defense systems, communication systems, etc. on islands and reefs must give priority to the power supply in these places, and the reserve power is limited. In the event of severe weather, domestic use is usually cut off. electricity.
Li Hai used a flashlight with one hand and switched from the main role to the supporting role to help the party carry out reinforcement work for the people.
The port's shipping command center became an emergency command center, and the tower took advantage of air observation and transformed it into a weather information center. Xue Zhengrong maintained contact with the emergency center while staring at the data continuously transmitted back by the weather radar.
At this stage, it mainly relies on meteorological satellite images reported in real time by meteorological stations deployed on the mainland and their judgment results. There is no ability to directly obtain meteorological satellite information on Forgotten Reef.
After the communication was completed, Li Zewen asked Wang Jiu to rush to the port and lead the crew to help Zhong Guobang's department carry out wind prevention and anti-typhoon work, while he and Xue Zhengrong guarded the tower.
The fax machine was ticking and spitting out warm paper. Xue Zhengrong picked it up and read it carefully. He handed it to Li Zewen and said, "Uncle Li, look, the chief researcher of the higher-level meteorological station has an 80% chance of Transformed into a typhoon, the central wind may reach level 15."
After carefully looking at several data, Li Zewen compared the distance and said in a deep voice, "That is also a matter of landing on the Indochina Peninsula, but the pressure of wind protection and typhoon resistance on Forgettable Reef is not small. I suggest you contact Lao Zhong and ask him to Hundreds of fishing boats sheltered from the wind will undergo another comprehensive inspection."
Small fishing boats have little ability to protect themselves.
Xue Zhengrong immediately contacted Zhong Guobang, who was in charge of the emergency command center, and learned that Zhong Guobang was already doing this work. Not only that, but all personnel on the ships were also required to go ashore, and no one was allowed to stay on the ship.
Not long after he put down the handset of the landline phone, Xue Zhengrong suddenly felt a cramp in his abdomen. The sudden pain made him bend down and cover his abdomen subconsciously.
"Xiao Xue?" Li Zewen noticed something was wrong and quickly supported him and helped him sit down on the chair.
Xue Zhengrong's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he said with difficulty, "I suddenly felt severe pain in my abdomen."
"Go to the aviation hospital." Li Zewen said.
Xue Zhengrong shook his head and refused, "No, I'll be fine after a while."
"Don't show off." Li Zewen turned to the staff and said, "Call the doctor and go quickly."
He also knew that Xue Zhengrong had to keep an eye on this place, so he could only invite the doctor over. Xue Zhengrong did not refuse anymore. He could feel that the abdominal pain was not ordinary, and this was not the time to force himself.
Not long after, the director of the aviation medical office brought an assistant over with first aid equipment and other supplies. After doing an examination on Xue Zhengrong, the director of the aviation medical office said, "The current diagnosis is food poisoning. To be on the safe side, a blood test is required. Mr. Xue, did you eat anything else for dinner besides food from the canteen?"
The entire airport dines in the same canteen, and they all eat food from the same pot. If it is food poisoning, it means there is something wrong with the food produced in the canteen tonight. However, except for Xue Zhengrong, no one else has experienced similar symptoms.
Xue Zhengrong said, "I haven't eaten anything else. Is there something wrong with the food in the canteen?"
This is what he is most worried about. If mass food poisoning occurs, the entire airport will be paralyzed.
"This possibility can be ruled out for now. Your physique is better than most people's. If there is a problem with the food, I think many people will have symptoms earlier than you, but they have not appeared so far. It may take a blood test before we can have one A relatively accurate judgment." said the director of the aviation medical office.
Xue Zhengrong breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just a good thing if it's not mass food poisoning."
The assistant immediately collected blood, and the director of the aviation medical office prescribed some more conservative pain-relieving drugs and ordered a soldier to go to the aviation medical office to get the medicine.
Wind and typhoon protection work on the islands and reefs is proceeding in an orderly manner. According to incomplete statistics, Wangji Reef experiences more than 50 strong winds above level 10 every year, including tropical storms, typhoons, and hurricanes, most of which occur in summer and autumn. Experienced on average twice a week.
In other words, the troops stationed on the island of Forgotten Reef and the enterprises and institutions on other islands have very rich experience in wind protection and Taiwan resistance.
Zhong Guobang, who is in charge of the emergency command center, is not very worried. He has worked on the islands and reefs for more than ten years and has never seen any big winds or waves. The conditions were even worse in the past. When encountering strong winds, waves, storms, and typhoons, we had to fight with our lives.
From a lonely stilt house to today's small island covering an area of several square kilometers and housing a life of up to 10,000 people, the change can be described as huge. Two years ago, we encountered a typhoon with a central wind force of magnitude 17. There were no casualties on the Forgotten Reef, and no buildings collapsed.
Zhong Guobang is very confident that all wind and typhoon preparations will be completed before the strong wind arrives.
He is most worried about one situation - a fishing boat in danger.
Not all fishing boats will obey the warnings and instructions of relevant departments. Some fishermen blindly pursue economic interests and take chances, so they miss the time to avoid danger. These examples occur every time a typhoon approaches.
Once a fishing boat sends a distress signal, as the only island with rescue capabilities within a radius of 200 nautical miles, the troops stationed on the Forgotten Reef must respond.
