On October 15th, 2025, the skies over China darkened — and then opened up with a fury unseen in decades. Within days, the mighty Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the arteries of China’s civilization, turned into monstrous torrents that devoured everything in their path. Entire cities vanished beneath walls of water. Villages were erased from the map. And more than one million people were forced to flee for their lives. The rainfall was relentless — supercharged by shifting climate patterns and atmospheric rivers that dumped weeks’ worth of rain in just hours. The result? Both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers surged past record flood levels, bursting through dams and levees that once stood as symbols of Chinese engineering pride.