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China floods: Over 140 dead as Yangtze River bursts banks
Deutsche Welle Online ^ | 7/15/2020 | (Not Listed)

Posted on 07/15/2020 9:43:17 AM PDT by LRoggy

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To: MrBambaLaMamba

If there is as much deformation as shown in those pics the dam needs to be drained. Now.


41 posted on 07/15/2020 10:33:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: G Larry

The youtube video shows only two flood gates open where previously there were 4 or 5 so the rising water must have abated there


42 posted on 07/15/2020 10:37:09 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Paladin2

Wuhan is way downstream of the dam. Probably flooded because they opened the dam floodgates all the way, to save the dam.


43 posted on 07/15/2020 10:38:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Paladin2
Is this flooding above or below The Dam?

Both but there are many smaller dams above Three Gorges. With monsoon rains continuing unabated across China, should one of the higher dams fail, a domino effect could result along the entire Yangtze River.


44 posted on 07/15/2020 10:38:38 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Paladin2

I wonder how long it will take our pathetic media to try to blame a dam collapse on Trump’s decision to move supply chains home . . . you KNOW it will be trial-ballooned at least!


45 posted on 07/15/2020 10:39:22 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: LRoggy
From the article:Operative word may.

Grin :)

46 posted on 07/15/2020 10:39:32 AM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: Berosus
And like Paladin2, I want to know which side of the dam the flooding is on.

Both sides and ALL flood gates on Three Gorges are open

47 posted on 07/15/2020 10:40:25 AM PDT by fso301
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To: MrBambaLaMamba
The dam showed deformations last year.

Concrete doesn't bend like that without fracturing. Therefore the doformations in the image are due to distortions caused by the imaging system.

48 posted on 07/15/2020 10:44:13 AM PDT by fso301
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To: PapaBear3625
Wuhan is way downstream of the dam. Probably flooded because they opened the dam floodgates all the way, to save the dam.

And/Or to render the Wuhan viral lab inaccessible to WHO investigators.

49 posted on 07/15/2020 10:45:38 AM PDT by fso301
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To: LRoggy

Isn’t a part of the big global warming hoax the meme that there’ll be widespread drought?


50 posted on 07/15/2020 10:48:04 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Vision

https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxnews.com/world/china-flooding-three-gorges-dam-weather-disaster-yangtze-river.amp?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQLKAGwASDIAQHYAQE%3D#aoh=15948350247969&amp_ct=1594835032962&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2Fchina-flooding-three-gorges-dam-weather-disaster-yangtze-river

More here at Fox.

I’ve been watching the flooding for several weeks now- the rains are unusually early and intense. Three Gorges failing would be unimaginable.


51 posted on 07/15/2020 10:49:27 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“losing the Mandate of Heaven”
______________________________________________________

Gone from Mandate to Wrath.
We may actually be seeing China go the way the USSR did when everything started going to hell in a handbasket there.

Shame the Hong Kong folks can’t coordinate with mainland folks to expedite the demise.


52 posted on 07/15/2020 10:50:44 AM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: Abathar

Send I. The UN and the WHO. They will solve the China Rains problem


53 posted on 07/15/2020 10:54:44 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: fso301

Thanks for the chart.

It’s a LONG way to the sea.


54 posted on 07/15/2020 10:58:24 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2banana

That was during the blessed Mao era.


55 posted on 07/15/2020 11:01:14 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: LRoggy

America is too busy cracking down on mask violators to notice anything else- this is series-


56 posted on 07/15/2020 11:03:25 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: LRoggy
I previously posted this on another FR Thread: https://watchers.news/2020/06/25/world-s-largest-dam-in-danger-of-collapse-amid-historic-floods-400-million-people-at-risk-china/

This vertiginous video shows flooding in a city on a cliff side!

https://twitter.com/JanJekielek/status/1275529769476554753

"This is apparently a video of the mountain city of #Chongqing, #China (have yet to verify this), now flooding because of torrential rains. "notable Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo (王維洛)" questions safety of #ThreeGorgesDam alongside (see earlier tweet)"

Mind you, the person with the camera is looking down at this waterfall on the main street.

(Glad to live in Kansas!)

57 posted on 07/15/2020 11:11:01 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: SeekAndFind

Who is “he” who is “done for”? Xi is president for life.


58 posted on 07/15/2020 11:12:26 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: JCL3
We may actually be seeing China go the way the USSR did when everything started going to hell in a handbasket there.

Well, it seems like its going to hell here. Nice to have company.

Didn't Jung have a term, "synchronicity?"

59 posted on 07/15/2020 11:13:08 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: LRoggy
(Lets redo this to make it easier to link!) I previously posted this on another FR Thread:

3 Gorges dam may collapse

This vertiginous video shows flooding in a city on a cliff side!

Flooding in Chongqing

"This is apparently a video of the mountain city of #Chongqing, #China (have yet to verify this), now flooding because of torrential rains. "notable Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo (王維洛)" questions safety of #ThreeGorgesDam alongside (see earlier tweet)"

Mind you, the person with the camera is looking down at this waterfall on the main street.

(Glad to live in Kansas!)

60 posted on 07/15/2020 11:15:25 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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