Bund Foreshore Not Flooded in the Spite of the Moon At full tide on Saturday night, at 1 aim, the water of the Whangpoo came whin 2 toot of the Bund. tied there been a strong wind blowing the Fiver would undoubtedly have overlowed. As it was there was hardly Jany breeze at all and the only me ident caused by the high tide was that some of the drains in Hankow Head and Szechuan Road overflowed.
At 130 am, that night, the ware: was almost across the road at one smal: section behind the Custom's building. Drains had also overflowed, Jon either side of Hankow Road, beween Szechuan road and the Bund.
[Undeterred by rumours of floods the: }P.W.D. continued to water the streets of central district until a Jate hour.
"Spring tide" in autumn may Jsound paradoxical to the uninitiated Until it is understood that, in this instance, the word "spring" refers Jnot to season, at all, but to a high ide due entirely to the gravitational pall of the sun and moon upon the seas when the two bodies are in a @irect line with the earth—at the Jnew and the full of the moon. The exceptionally high tide which did occur on Saturday night would be occasioned by this common pheno-Jmenon occurring at a moment when [the moon is also nearest the earth, Jand so exerting its maximum pull fon the tides, explained Dr. H. Chatley of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, in an interview with a. representative of the "North-China Herald."
Thus the spring de predicted for the night of the 25th had a range Jabout one foot greater than the usual spring tide. "In addition, the Yangtze River is at about its maximum, now, and although its height is not great this year owing to the drought, it is still sufficiently high to raise the water level at the mouth of the Whangpoo River by Jabout one more foot.
Were there reports of a typhoon the offing Shanghai might conceivable view with alarm the approach of the spring tide, for a typhoon can raise the water level four feet, If this happened, together Jwith the tide occasioned by the pull fof the sun and the moon, then [Shanghai might anticipate' the spectacle of water swirling in its streets at least two feet higher than that registered during the typhoon Jot September 18 last year when those who braved the Bund did so waist Jdeep in muddy water, Dr. Chatley frankly admitted the possibility of such a repetition remote, for, he pointed out, it rarely takes & typhoon less than five days to reach Shanghai. None is at present imminent—and so, as far can be foreseen, the possibility of an easterly wind piling the river over the six inch margin predicted, is the sole "danger to be anticipated.
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