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The Write Team Daily: "China's Sorrow"
September 28, 1887.
Days of relentless rain pushed China's Yellow River beyond its limits.
Then the levees failed.
Water swept across northern China, swallowing villages, destroying farmland, and leaving survivors without food, shelter, or clean drinking water. But the flood itself was only the beginning. Famine and disease followed, helping make the 1887 Yellow River Flood one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
Today on The Write Team Daily, we revisit the catastrophe that reinforced the Yellow River's haunting nickname: “China's Sorrow.”
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