FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Turning to a natural disaster in Asia now. Hundreds of thousands of people in central China are trying to fight fierce flooding. Rising waters are threatening China's Hunan province. CNN's Lisa Weaver has more.</s>LISA ROSE WEAVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The water level at Dongting Lake, a body of water more than twice the area of Hong Kong, is rising about a centimeter per hour. It's a race against time to reinforce the dikes and embankments. Officials worked around the clock, stopping leaks in the dike. They joined some 800,000 soldiers, laborers, and civilian volunteers in keeping the waters back. Hunan's capital city Changsha is a three-hour drive from the lake, but it lies on one of the swollen rivers that feeds into the lake. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated while services like postal delivery for those who do remain has adapted. This postman used to ride his bike on his rounds -- no more. While soldiers work and residents hope for the best, the waters are expected to rise even higher over the weekend and peak on Sunday. Relief workers were hopeful that dry weather would help contain the waters, but warned it's a tenuous situation.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If the dikes break, you will have water everywhere. People will loose their houses, their crops, pretty much all their belongings, because there is a limit to how much they can take with them when they have been evacuated.</s>ROSE WEAVER: Provincial authorities were bracing for the worst, clearing roads for delivering relief goods like tents in case even more people will have to leave their homes. Lisa Rose Weaver, CNN, Beijing.
Chinese Officials Bracing for More Evacuations