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Keep your eyes on the Three Gorges Dam! China braces for summer floods as 71 rivers exceed warning levels
SS ^ | 5/26/21 | SS

Posted on 05/26/2021 6:13:18 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

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To: hoagy62

“it’ll be a disaster of cataclysmic proportions.”

For sure. The dam was built to prevent floods. Now floods might destroy the solution to floods. Amazing how the Chinese moved two million people when preparing to built the Gorges Dam.


41 posted on 05/26/2021 9:43:08 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Falconspeed

Of course, Americans with American technology guided the building the Chinese dam. A few Americans were suspicious at the opening, since all that concrete takes a life of its own. Amazing how the side stocks drop a huge ship 300 feet to the water below the dam.


42 posted on 05/26/2021 9:47:12 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’ve been hearing this warning for 3-4 months now. This is like waiting for the Durham Report.


43 posted on 05/26/2021 10:27:32 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: OrangeHoof
"I’ve been hearing this warning for 3-4 months now. This is like waiting for the Durham Report."

It's more like 2 years or even longer. Kinda like the thousands of sealed indictments Sessions had......

44 posted on 05/26/2021 10:38:58 PM PDT by JParris
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Recognized independence........,

perhaps even a voting seat in the UN.

Not that the later means much, unless it’s combining forces with USA for some vote.


45 posted on 05/26/2021 10:42:48 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Local saying: “The world will be in chaos if the Giant Buddha washes his feet. “ once-in-70-years

Sometimes closes his eyes and/or weeps also.

Prophetic and counting.


46 posted on 05/26/2021 11:01:44 PM PDT by Scram1
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To: oldasrocks

The flood would take out every city down to Shanghai, a major disaster.


47 posted on 05/27/2021 12:43:48 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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A Communist regime with a population problem...


48 posted on 05/27/2021 1:03:50 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Good


49 posted on 05/27/2021 3:16:12 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’d still prefer them taken out.


And you’d be a mass murderer, the greatest on record with 400,000,000 innocent civilians dead to your credit - most of whom hate the CCP


50 posted on 05/27/2021 5:54:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

That was interesting...and scary!

Always live ABOVE the dam, and always drink upstream from the herd!


51 posted on 05/27/2021 6:00:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Fai Mao
Shanghai (Largest), and Wuhan (9) would be in the flood path. Wuhan would be wiped off the face of the Earth

I fail to see a downside here ...

52 posted on 05/27/2021 6:02:19 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Food is a big problem for them now. Last rainy season wiped out much of the wheat and rice. Reserves are mostly wiped out do to corruption. It will be very bad even if the dam does not burst. I would say that the burst odds are at about 5% and rising. Plus they are papering over a major financial crisis. Banks are failing and worthless corporate bonds are going under. They are trying to manage the collapse.


53 posted on 05/27/2021 6:36:39 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Well, all the flotsam and debris that flows down river and across the Taiwan Strait which that finally ends up on their shore! (Beach clean up!)

They might also get a flotilla of CCP ships landing but not, I suspect, as part of a beach cleanup effort, but as a noisy distraction from the internal problems caused by a dam collapse!

Alternatively they might get to observe some regime change, but probably not a removal of CCP totalitarianism.


54 posted on 05/27/2021 7:33:15 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Always a good plan for siting your home!

However, see my comments on Augie’s pond! Gravity feed for your gardening watering system is a good thing! Sucking from the sediment layer in your home’s Water cistern is nasty


55 posted on 05/27/2021 7:39:03 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
In 2019, when the possible failure of the dam was put out there to change the subject from dead bodies in the streets of Wuhan, there were vids showing daily status updates on the imminent disaster. I just did a video search on "three gorges dam webcam" and discovered the only "new" search result was a Snopes page. I dropped "webcam" and found nothing newer than August 2020, which included a video questioning whether the supposedly live feeds are actually just looped. Either there's really nothing new, or the Chicommanders of Google are suppressing search results.

56 posted on 05/27/2021 7:57:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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added 2021 to the search term:

https://www.google.com/search?q=three+gorges+dam+2021&tbm=vid


57 posted on 05/27/2021 7:58:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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China prepares to launch new mega hydroelectric dam in July
Caroline Kwok
April 9, 2021
China’s second-largest hydroelectric dam started storing water on April 6, 2021, paving the way for it to begin generating electricity in July. The Baihetan Hydropower Station is located on the Jinsha River and straddles the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. The electricity-generating capacity of the facility will be second only to the world’s largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam in China’s central Hubei province.
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3128893/china-prepares-launch-new-mega-hydroelectric-dam-july


58 posted on 05/27/2021 8:09:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Because it will severely and possibly fatally wound the CCP."

No it won't. They will just publicly execute the chief engineer and go on. Remember, this is a communist regime. They are never held accountable. Look at the Communist Democrat Party in this country.

59 posted on 05/27/2021 8:59:07 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: PIF

Exactly on what do you base your statement that most chinese hate the ccp?


60 posted on 05/27/2021 9:17:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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