{"id":918349,"date":"2026-07-07T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/918349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:58:21","slug":"china-floods-900-snakes-escape-snake-farm-amid-historic-rainfall-and-rare-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/918349\/","title":{"rendered":"China floods: 900 snakes escape snake farm amid historic rainfall and rare tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual flood season, which officially began on July 1, would be affected by global warming and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3358923\/chinas-politburo-orders-rapid-response-overhaul-face-floods-and-extreme-heat?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Nino<\/a>, they said.President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/xi-jinping?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xi Jinping<\/a> ordered \u201call-out\u201d emergency rescue and relief efforts, medical treatment for the injured and resettlement for affected residents, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAll local governments should tighten accountability for disaster prevention and relief, thoroughly check rivers, lakes, reservoirs and other regions prone to geological disasters, strengthen early warning, prevention and relief work and ensure the safety of people\u2019s lives and property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In southern China\u2019s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the flood alert was upgraded to red, the strongest in a four-tiered system, on Monday midnight. Water levels at 70 monitoring stations on 55 rivers were above the warning level, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A resident tries to handle an escaped snake in Guangxi. Photo: The Paper\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bfa65fb-42d8-4fe5-a90d-8bd7a742f0ab_ffd959e7.jpg\" title=\"A resident tries to handle an escaped snake in Guangxi. Photo: The Paper\"\/>A resident tries to handle an escaped snake in Guangxi. Photo: The Paper<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A central government task force was sent to the scene to monitor the typhoon\u2019s passage and flood prevention efforts. It also called for volunteer teams with inflatable boats and storm boats to aid rescues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual flood season, which officially began on July 1, would be affected by global warming and El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":918350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[74,370873,355024,97754,746,370872,370871,132612,370876,370877,159,77711,370874,67,132,68,370875],"class_list":["post-918349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-china","tag-china-institute-of-water-resources-and-hydropower-research","tag-department-of-emergency-management","tag-el-nino","tag-environment","tag-guangxi-zhuang","tag-huanggang","tag-hubei","tag-liu-changjun","tag-ministry-of-water-resources","tag-science","tag-the-paper","tag-typhoon-maysak","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wang-xiaoling"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116878110323416839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}