[SuperLuminal]

Since that dam is a major strategic target (for Japan, India, Russia, U.S., and Formosa) because of the horrific damage a 500-foot-high, almost a mile wide, of water traveling at a few hundred miles an hour would do...

A wide deep gorge all the way down river to the East China Sea through the port and delta at Shanghai with the loss of many many of millions of Chinese people...

The Yangtze is the heart & soul of China's economy... Any enemy will attempt to rip it out...

[hawkaw]

The dam moved. Yikes.

[Flick Lives]

The CCP can try to lie their way out of this and fool the people, but physics does not care about propaganda.

[jetson]

They are having big quakes around Xizang and Oamdo.

[rolling_stone]

the johnstown flood 1889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62vlcFLLlM

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Some Flex-Seal would fix that right up.

[Cen-Tejas]

Moving 400 million people out of harms way seems impossible. It would be like moving 122% of America’s 330 million people (approximately).

My guess is that the low life communist creatures that run China have already decided that the 400 million men, women and children are expendable and they are not going to do a damn thing.

[Repeat Offender]

The problem is that China once claimed the dam would withstand a 10,000 year flood, then a 1,000 year flood and now only a 100 year flood

Completed in 2006. Maybe it can withstand a 15 year flood.......or 14 rather.

[BTerclinger]

"But not just to China. The country already is a net food importer. Without soybeans from Brazil and the USA and wheat from Australia and Europe and the US, China cannot feed its livestock let alone its human population. The collapse of the TGD would perhaps be the single largest disaster that could affect the world’s food security because aside from the immediate disaster there would be enormous upward pressure on food prices, putting essential staples out of reach of hundreds of millions of people outside China."

If 400 million people drown, wouldn't that lessen demand for food in China? "The point here is that anyone concerned about food anywhere should want to think through what they might do if the TGD failed." STOCK UP AHEAD OF TIME?

[BTerclinger]

"But not just to China. The country already is a net food importer. Without soybeans from Brazil and the USA and wheat from Australia and Europe and the US, China cannot feed its livestock let alone its human population. The collapse of the TGD would perhaps be the single largest disaster that could affect the world’s food security because aside from the immediate disaster there would be enormous upward pressure on food prices, putting essential staples out of reach of hundreds of millions of people outside China."

If 400 million people drown, wouldn't that lessen demand for food in China? "The point here is that anyone concerned about food anywhere should want to think through what they might do if the TGD failed." STOCK UP AHEAD OF TIME?

[arthurus]

After numerous hints, Xi Jin Ping may be about to discover that the Mandate of Heaven has turned against the Mao Dynasty.

[Reno89519]

Here is Google satellite view. Some of the wave is from the picture angle. Hard to see what has changed. view

[GulfMan]

I read that if it breaks even parts of Iowa will flood.

[minnesota_bound]

destroy major cities such as Wuhan

Well that is a plus. No more virus’s.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Are they sure the image was georectified correctly. It is a common error for features like bridges and dams to look distorted or wavy. Extra processing can fix the waviness - it could be an artifact and not real.

[BeauBo]

Nikkei Asian Review reports:

“Torrential rains that typically hit in July and August started in the middle of June this year.”

This situation may still have weeks to run, if the monsoons last through August, and we are already dealing with such extremes.

Even if the three Gorges Dam holds up, thousands of smaller dams that were built in a rush under Mao in the 1950s and 1960s are experiencing their worst tests ever, and some have already failed.

[Falconspeed]

“The collapse would be catastrophic.” No kidding.

The bend in the dam is fixable. Relax, Mr. Hoft. The TGD will need constant fixes, because it was made in China.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Its hard to get the real facts on this, I search high and low, but from all put together it does seem as though there may be a tragic event very very soon, like within 48 hours.

The dam can release over twice whats coming in but that would destroy anything downstream. It is over its high safe level, they say its moved like 12mm, its not anchored to bedrock, its wedged, they say the more water weight anchors it better, so they say....

But the silt is building up and scouring the outlets. They are leaking.
There is landslides up stream that blocks a river, it rises and then comes flooding down and hitting the Gorges with more debris.

Meanwhile, the rains keep coming, oh and the military. ..
They evacuated out of the flood zone.

[Celtic Conservative]

If it’s built with the same care and dedication as their modern cities millions of Chinese are royally screwed.

CC

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Even a dam wanted to defect from Red China. It just didn’t move far enough. Expect it to be sent to a concentration camp or executed in the night and replaced by a Lincoln Log version.