That’s going to be horrifying if the 3 gorges dam breaks.
I think China will be over if it does. The communist corruption is what caused the failure if it happens.
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Yes it will be terrible. I think the odds are in favor of a failure. I had read that the flood waters would reach all the way to Wuhan. I’m wondering what that will mean for containment in that Bio-Lab too.
The cement inside that damn is probably not even done setting.
I remember reading once that the cement in the Hoover Damn is still not set.
Entirely too many eggs in that particular basket for the failure to "merely" be horrifying.
-First casualties due to flooding (people/farmland/infrastructure) very easily extending to/through Shanghai would only be a prelude. (And Wuhan biohazards wouldn't even rate notice.)
-When those generator houses in 3G flood/fail, something on the order of one-third of China's electrical grid goes away.
-The locks by the dam would essentially be put out of operation if not damaged/blocked by debris from the dam itself which would also block shipping traffic in the remains of the main channel.
-Then, when the dust settles, whatever national leadership still exists gets to work on the cleanup.
(My best guess just to clear the Yangtze shipping channel at the dam site runs to decades...even with heavy machinery.)
"Biblical" is a good word for it.