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To: Abathar
It will take years to properly repair this dam, assuming there isn’t an aftershock before it’s done.

A decent aftershock and it will be done, along with too many more people.

48 posted on 05/14/2008 8:51:37 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

What they should, and probably do fear is the Domino Effect.

391 small dams are damaged.
Massive landslides have dammed up rivers, and may cause the mountains to collapse.

The Zipingpu dam has four inch cracks all over the top.
(four inches wide?long?deep?....they didn’t say)

More mudslides are anticipated with the coming heavy rains.

The Mudslides will cause a change in weight distribution, triggering more earthquakes.

The earthquakes will trigger more landslides, and more dam failures.

The landslides like the one near the Zipingpu Dam can create tsunami like waves which pound the dam.

If one large dam goes....


60 posted on 05/15/2008 7:53:40 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
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