[ Field Footage ] Fujian, China. The flooding now submerging Fuding streets, shops and vehicles is officially blamed on Typhoon Saudel’s torrential rain. That rainfall was real and extreme. What remains harder to accept is how quickly ordinary residents were overtaken, many waking to water already at chest height with almost no time to move goods or flee. CCP China’s reservoir network is designed to store and release water. When operators open gates to protect larger cities or generate power, downstream towns often receive late, vague or no effective warning. The result is the same scene repeating across provinces: cars swept away, shops ruined, families left to salvage what they can. Treating smaller communities as expendable flood buffers is not an act of nature. It is a choice about whose safety comes first. Timely, specific public alerts and reservoir operations that put lives ahead of other priorities are the minimum a government owes its people. Without them, “disaster” becomes a convenient explanation for avoidable harm. — Aric