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I’m certainly no fan of China, but I must say their response to the quakes has been about as good as could be expected.

[chopperman]

They can’t claim they don’t have the money to do anything. What money of ours that the ragheads don’t have is in China.

[21twelve]

Their response has been good, but I'm not so sure of their design and planning. We complain about all the building codes, etc. in the states - and new faults being found all the time in my neck of the woods requiring increased seismic design. However, the buildings have a better chance of standing here. Not to say it won't be a disaster area when “the big one” hits here.

Of course those landslides don't care about design codes (unless they are in areas with oversleep road cuts, etc.) - but it doesn't look like it for this one. And one nice thing - we would probably waste valuable time coming up with an environmental audit, engineering studies, etc. before we could get an excavator on the site to open the drain a little.

Hope these guys can let the water out safely and in time. I'm thinking of those other workers clearing a highway slide when a tremor let loose another one top of them and killed a couple hundred workers as I recall.