The camera scans across a crowd of people in the dark under flashing blue light, almost like a club. There is no sound but the murmur of conversation,

The Rain Is Becoming an Issue

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2021-07-23 12:30:02

The camera scans across a crowd of people in the dark under flashing blue light, almost like a club. There is no sound but the murmur of conversation, and there is brown water up to everyone’s shoulders. It hits you when you see the metal poles and the plastic hand-straps: This is a subway train, and its riders have about 18 inches of air to go before they drown.

3/3: More extraordinary scenes from the floods in central China - commuters on the Zhengzhou subway. There are other videos circulating on WeChat that show people in even worse predicaments - appears to be very destructive flooding. pic.twitter.com/hCJYq3ANyU

Heavy flooding hit central China, with footage released by Chinese state TV showing the subway system in the city of Zhengzhou inundated with rushing water. https://t.co/7RsPyaWV5t pic.twitter.com/muF46shhhl

That was one of many horrifying scenes this week in Zhengzhou, a Los Angeles–sized metropolis in Eastern China that became the latest victim of flash floods juiced by an atmosphere more dense with carbon dioxide than at any time in the last 4 million years.