On a train passing through Hebi, in badly flooded #Henan
If it seems slow for high-speed rail, that’s bc it is.. our usual 2.5 hr train from Beijing to Zhengzhou has been inching along for 12 hours now w stops and starts. But at least we are moving (for now) 
The guy next to me is from Zhengzhou and can’t wait to see his wife and daughter. When the rains came on Tues his wife walked to bring the girl home from kindergarten. The water was at her ankles when she left and up to her thighs by the time she arrived
She got their daughter but by then regular cars were unable to drive. They flagged down a truck driver who kindly brought them to their apartment - on the newer east side of the city, on higher ground and less affected by the floods. There they waited while he fretted in Beijing
“I just left home for a few days and now I’m going back to a different world,” he says. Many of his friends are already volunteering in relief efforts for ppl stranded in the city’s west side, in hospitals, still searching for family members, etc. “Now we rebuild,” he says.
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