Twisted metal railings and slanted utility poles still lined the roadside as workers in neon yellow vests and wearing hard hats worked to clear the wreckage.
Nearby, trees had been uprooted, lying in a river gushing with murky brown water.
Last week, floods in Beijing’s northern suburbs killed at least 44 people and left nine missing, according to official figures.
Residents of flood-hit areas told AFP journalists they had been surprised at the speed with which the rushing water had inundated homes and villages.
The devastation prompted a local official to make a rare admission that there had been “gaps” in disaster readiness.
“Our knowledge of extreme weather was lacking,” Yu Weiguo, the district’s ruling Communist Party boss, said.
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