Some questions come to mind in this age when you have to be skeptical of everything:
- How can I be sure these video images are all from this year's flood?
- How can I trust that only 8 people have died? (so far 27 in the Texas floods)
- what's happening to all of the displaced people in China?
A catastrophe like this is unimaginable in my neighborhood, which is well away from the Han River and well above the height of the local creeks (Yangjae and Tan, and maybe also the Yeoui, which sits farther back from my neighborhood and flows into the Yangjae). Sure, the Yangjae and Tan both generally flood during the monsoon season (which is why all the construction materials along the Tan got whisked away weeks ago), but so far this July, the rains have bee fairly muted compared to previous years. Maybe we'll get our flood sometime in late July or August. Or even in early September.
Here are some local flood pics (July 19, 2023; September 7, 2022; August 17, 2022; August 12, 2022; August 11, 2022; August 9, 2022) to refresh your memory. These dates are also a reminder that, while July is often associated with monsoon season in Korea, the heavy rains often come later. The monsoon and typhoon seasons also overlap.
My blog post on last year's China flooding. And there's this.
UPDATE: more video found by John from Daejeon:
Hard to believe anything these days. Drones fighting wars, ex-Presidents who weren't really in charge after all (or all there), are we really in "The Matrix?"
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