Subway flooding related text recorded on Internet media in China from 2001 to 2021

This dataset comprises 104,678 texts related to subway flooding events collected from three popular Chinese social media platforms—TikTok, Weibo, and KUAISHOU—and four online news platforms: Baidu News, Sina News, Headlines Today, and Sogou. The data was gathered using Python APIs by searching for posts and articles of social media and news with the keywords “subway + flooding” from 2001 to 2021.