[numberonepal]

This is from 2 years ago. Imagine what it looks like now.

[Richard Kimball]

I'm in NO WAY a bridge expert, but one of the other things I'd read was that this is a high sedimentation river, and that the dam builds up more sedimentation on the upstream side every year. This means it takes less water to raise the water level each year.

Their best bet would be to pray the dam doesn't break this season, keep the flood gates open during the dry season until the water level is same on both sides, then blow up the dam.

This isn't some Chinese plot to flood Wuhan to destroy evidence. They could do that with a couple of fires. This is a man made catastrophe that they don't have a clue how to deal with.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

My prayers are up for those innocent Chynese in harms way

[Squidpup]

That aerial from 2018 is not a true representation of actual deformation of the dam - there is significant visual distortion of that particular satellite view. June 2020 is latest on Google Earth and does not show the distortion.

[meyer]

Re: 3G dam images - some of that distortion may be a lens aberration from the satellite photo.

Or may not, but seems like if it had been moved that far out of alignment, it’d be gone by now. JMHO.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

#1Pal

Hive mind!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3866726/posts?page=1459#1459

https://youtu.be/n6QyfrS7ARI?t=124

Yah, not distortion.

They fixed the poured concrete to the bedrock with rice gruel and spit. (Worked on the Great Wall!) < /exag>