Beijing Drowned! Houses Collapse, Roads Break, Thousands Missing

"Beijing has just endured one of the most catastrophic flood disasters in its recent history—an event so intense and widespread that it has reshaped both the city and the mountains surrounding it.

Relentless, hammering rainfall swept across the capital for days, pushing every river, drainage channel, and mountain valley past its limits. Sirens rolled through the city center and echoed deep into the highlands, filling neighborhoods and remote villages with a sense of rising panic as floodwaters surged faster than emergency crews could respond.
In the western and northern outskirts—Mentougou, Fangshan, Huairou, Changping, Miyun—the transformation was brutal. Rivers that were normally calm enough to walk across in summer turned into raging, sediment-choked torrents capable of lifting vehicles and ripping apart concrete. Entire embankments burst open under pressure, sending powerful waves downhill. Slopes collapsed in long, thundering avalanches of mud, cracking open the mountainside and sweeping toward settlements built along narrow valleys.

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