Two supermarkets in Huainan, East China's Anhui Province, used rice and flour bags stored for sale to save themselves from being flooded by heavy rain on Friday. Photo: Sina Weibo

Two supermarkets in Huainan, East China's Anhui Province, used rice and flour bags stored for sale to save themselves from being flooded by heavy rain on Friday.

In a video circulating on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, rice bags, flour bags, and even water bottles were moved to the entrance of the supermarket to block rain water. However, due to heavy rainfall, the workers failed to prevent water from entering the building. As a result, two branches of the supermarket in Dongyuan and Jidicheng have suffered major loses.

A staff of Jidicheng branch of the supermarket said, "We were anxious at the time and we didn't have sandbags, so we used flour and rice as sandbags to block the rain water."

The two stores suffered loses of over four million yuan ($616,800). The staff said they were destroying commodities that were soaked. All the employees did their best to minimize losses, according to media report.

Global Times