On August 23,violent typhoon Hato landed in Jinwan District,Zhuhai.When Hato landed,the maximum wind near the center was level 14(45m/s),so Zhuhai released the highest-level red typhoon warning signal.The red warning signal and Hato crazily assaulting the city with a violent storm frightened Zhuhai people.
The first enterprise donating 10 million yuan
Great Aim,as a private enterprise,has never forgotten its social responsibility.On August 24,Great Aim Group donated 10 million yuan through the Red Cross Society of Zhuhai to the Hato-affected areas for post-disaster municipal road cleaning and recovery.Yan Wu,Deputy Mayor of Zhuhai and Chairman of the Red Cross Society of Zhuhai,accepted the donation on behalf of the Red Cross Society of Zhuhai.“We will live up to the expectations of the donator,appropriately use the donation openly and transparently and give timely feedback on the account,”Yan Wu expressed.
It is known that this is the first contribution donated through the Red Cross Society of Zhuhai for the disaster relief after Hato’s attack.Yang Feng,Chairman of Great Aim Group expressed that he felt sad when seeing Zhuhai after attacked by Hato.“The leaders of Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government are personally present at the frontline to direct disaster relief,and municipal workers,public security officers and ordinary residents are trying their best to rescue others.As an entrepreneur,I’d like to give great support to Zhuhai,”he said.“Although Great Aim Group has suffered great losses in the typhoon disaster,we are willing to fulfill our social responsibility and make contributions to Zhuhai’s post-disaster reconstruction.I hope our donation of 10 million yuan can help Zhuhai residents return to normal life as early as possible,”he added.
Donation site
Pacifying the proprietors
Not only Great Aim Group has made donation but also its subordinate property management company had a swift response.The company took active measures to provide guarantee for the proprietors when Hato was attacking Zhuhai and after Hato left.
When the typhoon was most fierce,Liu Zhiqiang,a proprietor of Great Aim Nanwan International Community,stayed at home anxiously.On the day before that day,the community property management personnel made an announcement about the typhoon in some conspicuous places such as the elevators,the lobby and the bulletin board,reminding in detail the residents about anti-typhoon measures.The contingency plan had been launched and the security personnel reminded the residents from door to door to close their doors and windows and take safety precautions.Mr.Liu closed the doors and windows at home and carefully checked again and again according to the property management company’s instruction.
But at noon,gusts of wind roared.Mr.Liu could obviously feel the building seemed to be shaking.He got out of his home in a hurry and took his dog to the underground parking via the stairs.“I felt my house was shaking,and other proprietors in our community WeChat group reflected the same phenomenon as well.I was so scared and thought I should go downstairs to avoid the danger,”Mr.Liu said.At that time,many anxious proprietors stood in the underground parking.The property management personnel brought cases of mineral water to the proprietors.They pacified the proprietors while contacting an engineering specialist to ask for information.Soon,the expert replied that building shaking in typhoon is called“wind-induced vibration effect”and the building was constructed in strict accordance with the anti-wind standard and told the residents not to worry.Some proprietors forwarded the information timely published by the local media in the community WeChat group,and the content is about the explanation of the“wind-induced vibration effect”too,so the proprietors relaxed and went back home.
Moving the proprietors’vehicles to safe places
After the proprietors went back home,Sheng Jianxin,the manager of the property management company of Great Aim Nanwan International Community,dragged his colleagues into the violent storm.“At that time,there were some vehicles parking in the outdoor parking lot and the surrounding areas,so we needed to call the vehicle owners one by one to notify them,”Sheng Jianxin said.At that moment,Hato had landed in Zhuhai for a while,and after it entered the“typhoon eye”,the wind and rain in the main urban area of Zhuhai slightly weakened.Catching this precious opportunity,the property management personnel called the owners of the vehicles parking outdoors one by one according to the plate number registration information.“Some vehicle owners did not left contact information,so we tried all the ways to find them.We must notify them as early as possible regardless of whether they are the proprietors or not,”Sheng Jianxin added.With their efforts,more than ten vehicles were finally moved to safe places during the typhoon period.
Timely recovering electric power supply
From the morning of the day when the typhoon started to wreak havoc,the main urban area of Zhuhai started to cut off water supply and power supply.Thanks to proper maintenance at ordinary times and property management personnel’s swift response,20 minutes after power cut,two diesel generators in the community began working to supply stand-by power to the community.But,as the civic power supply was intermittent during that period and most of surrounding communities were out of power,for the sake of safety,Nanwan International Community’s stand-by power supply was shut down temporarily.When many proprietors were worried about power cut may affect their life,at about 3:00 pm on August 23,power supply recovered again.Some people published the news“The power is back!”on WeChat.Soon,people thumbed up in the community WeChat group,because their community was one of the earliest communities in Nanwan area recovering power supply.“We felt we had something to depend on when the power supply recovered,”a proprietor Mr.Wang said emotionally.Facing such a serious natural disaster,people may have the strongest sense of safety when their basic life needs are met.
During the period of temporary power cut,the community elevators stopped working as well,and at that time,bad news came:some proprietors were trapped in an elevator.The property management personnel and elevator maintenance workers immediately rushed to the scene to rescue them.The rescue workers spoke loudly to the trapped while trying to rescue them.10 minutes later,the elevator door was opened and three ladies successfully came out of the elevator.This incident caused heated discussion among the proprietors.A proprietor Mr.Chen expressed that the property management personnel gave a timely response and proper treatment to the incident.“When we bought the property here,the property management company’s slogan was‘To be a navigator of the proprietors’,and now it has achieved“Escort the proprietors’,”Mr.Chen said.
Checking dangers from door to door
According to the introduction of a relevant leader of Great Aim Group,when the typhoon attacked Zhuhai,all property management workers and security personnel were on duty.In addition to opening up two hotlines to reply to the proprietors’help at any time,the property management company actively checked danger.In the 24 hours before the typhoon came,the community security personnel reminded the proprietors from door to door to close their doors and windows.On August 23,when the storm attacked,the head of the property management company led a team to inspect the drainage system in the underground parking and ensured that 80 water pumps was in proper working order and all flood prevention facilities such as sandbags were in place.When the storm was most fierce,glass windows in many communities nearby were blown off and then dropped from the sky,causing huge safety hazard to the vehicles and people on the ground.At that time,the property management personnel of Nanwan International Community carried out again a wide range of inspection.They called the relevant proprietors when they found there were open windows and went upstairs to remind the proprietors concerned if they could not contact the proprietors by phone.
On the morning of August 24,a ray of sunshine glared down on disaster-stricken Zhuhai through the clouds after the storm.Some community proprietors,having experienced a violent storm of one day and one night,went downstairs and found that the community greening vegetation was damaged,many trees on the surrounding roads were pulled up by the roots,and the roads were in a mess.The neighbor communities and part of communities in the main urban area were still in the trouble of having no water and power,while Great Aim Nanwan International Community’s water and electricity supply as well as gas and network coverage could meet the proprietors’basic demands,so the proprietors felt relieved and they thumbed up in the community WeChat group for the property management personnel.“After baptized in a violent storm,our community has become a safety island we can rely on,and this is just what a home should be,”a proprietor Mr.Liu said.“I walked around just now and I feel so happy to find that we have electricity,”Du Mo,a proprietor living in Building 2,said in the community WeChat group.
The well-maintained community
Property quality guaranteeing safety
According to the introduction of the head of the property management company,the phenomenon of large-area falling and breaking of doors and windows did not appear in the community.The next day,the property management company took temporary remedial measures for the damaged doors and windows and arranged engineering personnel to provide door-to-door repair service.Some careful proprietors have studied the structure of the al-alloy doors and windows and found that the windows adopt hand-cranking window openers,which belong to spiral-crank components with gear drive,so the windows are more reliable and solid than push-pull windows.They think this is why their community windows are not easy to fall.Nanwan International Community has stood the test of the disaster caused by the windstorm.The reporter has interviewed relevant architectural engineering experts,and some of them think that safety design is the key to the quality of construction of a building.Great Aim Group designed and constructed Nanwan International Community in strict accordance with the Earthquake Resistance and Disaster Prevention Standard and took the features of coastal areas into full consideration.For example,cable route setting is the key to ensuring power supply when a disaster happens.Such details as the cut-through design of the level 1 and level 2 underground parking,the drainage channel,the rational design of the slope,and the setting of the water pumps were taken into full consideration when Nanwan International Community was in design and construction.Although Nanwan International Community encountered a torrential rain caused by typhoon,which has never happened for many years,,there is no waterlogging phenomenon,and this is uncommon.
After Hato left,someone in the community WeChat group called on the proprietors to be volunteers and organized the proprietors to clean the trees and advertising boards knocked down in the community and on the surrounding roads so as to recover the community as early as possible.Knowing the proprietors’request,the community property management company arranged special personnel to act together with the proprietors and provided mineral water,anti-cutting gloves,cleaning tools and other articles to them.After undergoing the disaster,both the property management personnel and the proprietors felt sunny.“I’d like to thumb up for our hard-working property management personnel.Let’s join hands to construct a peaceful and harmonious community and make continuous improvement together.Whish all neighbors a peaceful life!”Polaris,a proprietor living in Building 6,said in the community WeChat group.
Source:Zhuhai Daily