They became trapped Sunday morning when a flash flood from heavy rain surged through an old shaft at their mine in Henan Province.
"Everything - the wind, the rain, the surge, everything was coming this way," said Mr. Young, 50.
The city is vulnerable to flooding from a variety of sources: heavy rain, storm surge and a rise in sea level.
The objective of the hindcast is not to precisely duplicate past conditions, but to represent short-term processes such as storm-induced wind, rain, and surge, along with long-term hydrological variations, that affect ecological processes and ecological response to changes in hydrology.
When superstorm Sandy was rampaging across the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, heralded by gale force winds, torrential rain and surging tides, people rushed to get out of its way.
But now they have found themselves trapped, with the authorities increasingly concerned about the possibility of more flooding because of a new rain-fed surge coming downriver from across the border in India.
Typhoon Hagupit is still on the move, bringing destructive winds, heavy rain, water surges and landslides.
Heavy rains and surging waters were expected to affect the region for days.
By all accounts, this storm is nowhere near as powerful as Katrina was, but its breadth is potentially wider, with pounding rains and surging waves expected from east of Morgan City, La., to the Mississippi-Alabama border, including New Orleans.
Cyclones bring with them heavy rains, storm surges, and winds that often cut affected areas off from relief and supplies.
