Posted on 07/18/2020 7:01:15 PM PDT by bitt
At least 14 people were killed Saturday in southern China because of seasonal rains and flooding.
Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River were opened as the water level behind the massive dam rose more than 50 feet above flood level, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
The dam was holding back about 45 percent of the water, Xinhua said, citing China Three Gorges Corp.
Upstream, 11 people had been killed in Chongqing as of Saturday morning, China National Emergency Broadcasting said in an online report, citing the municipal emergency agency. More than 20,000 people had been evacuated and 1,031 homes destroyed.
Three landslides in Dunhao town in a mountainous part of Chongqing left six dead, the city’s Emergency Management Bureau said. The bodies had been found by Friday evening after more than 200 people were dispatched for a search and rescue operation. Rainfall in the town of Dunhao totaled 15 inches, the bureau said.
Three more people died in neighboring Hubei province, the emergency management department said in a social media post.
State broadcaster CCTV showed people cleaning up still wet, muddy streets and shops in the city of Enshi after severe flooding Friday. Rescue workers used inflatable rafts to rescue more than 1,900 people trapped in their homes and other buildings.
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The Chinese press is even more dishonest than the US press. They wouldn't admit flooding at all if there weren't pictures leaking out.
They're, IMHO, underplaying the number of deaths.
Wow, thanks for sharing pics
That’s an insane amount of water
Well, they should. After all, I *personally* operated the Weather Control Machine to make this flooding happen. Of course, I cannot admit to it, due to very strict national security reasons, but between you and me, I did it all.
Reinforcements to the rescue!......
What the hell is it? About three times the size of the backwater of the Hoover Dam?
I know its huge.
That’d be like damming up the Ol Miss and then having the dam break...Oh wait...we have the Mississippi dammed up, it has been for years now...the upper part that is.
I ran across this YouTube video recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmWmSdNmMc
Video has a weird partial title that doesn’t do it justice, and the audio seems to be voice to text computer generated from software Chine to English translation. Wild footage in the video!
There is some weird stuff going on in China, mud slides, earthquakes, weird loud noises in the video, a little more than half way through it.
I thought the Three Gorges Dam was already full, letting out tons of water?
I remember reading a bit about that. What kind of instability in the region? Earthquake prone, not the right kind of stable earth with bedrock, or other? Not being in that field I don’t know anything but I can imagine.
They just wanted to have the biggest grandest dam in the world. Now it looks as though they’ll have the biggest catastrophe in the world. What kind of other events do you mean?
Poor piggies.
Wow, thanks for posting all these. China is encroaching and buying resources and governments all over the world, a lot in Africa. Ruining whatever they touch.
In the USA way, way back when the Mississippi River flooded EVERY single year and the home owners kept getting PAID by the U.S. government.
Until one year the government said NO MORE MONEY because the river always floods--so MOVE. No more US$$ = people moved.
Those Chinese in the wake of the YEARLY flooding should be moved. China is a big country. There HAS to be some place to move them to.
Does not look like the same sign to me. Looks to be a different location.
Yes earthquakes, and landslides are not unusual....plus they had to build a second dam because of all the silt etc. that was building up at the base of the 3 Gorges Dam......not to mention the very quality of the materials used to build the dam. What kind of other events do you mean? Just as we're seeing now....but if the 3 Gorges Dam goes it'll affect every town and city in it's path.
Reposting, don’t know why it turned into wall’o’text.
Thank you, I have read several places about the poor quality materials in the dam. I read a post today about downstream effects, I’ll find it. Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3865839/posts?page=780#780
Consider this, the TGD stands 175 m (574 ft) high and has a volume of 39.3 km3 (31,900,000 acre/ft). That is a LOT of potential energy. The spillways are currently dumping 116,000 m3/s. Even that amount is causing big problems downstream.
I remember reading, years ago, that if the Aswan High dam burst the wall of water would be 20 ft high when it reached Cairo. The AHD only stands 111 m (364 ft) high but Lake Nasser holds about three and a half times the water. I don’t know what the wave height would be when it reaches Shanghai but it would be significant. There is also the point that much of the Yangtze flows through mountains. This will accelerate the velocity of the water and concentrate it because it can’t spread out.
It won’t just be the water that will be coming downstream. That wall of will scour EVERYTHING from its banks and deliver it into its lower reaches and the East China sea.
It will cause MASSIVE problems in the East China Sea and beyond. That debris will be a huge hazard to navigation. This means that ships transiting the area will have to greatly reduce speed if they transit it at all. This will affect the port of Shanghai and points north. This is where most of China’s petroleum imports are unloaded.
A TGD break would take out most if not all of the bridges below the dam disrupting N/S transportation. Road/rail traffic loss will be significant but not the only loss. Bridges carry a lot more than traffic. They also carry electrical, communications, and pipeline traffic. While watching the videos of the air war just before Desert Storm kicked off did you ever wonder why we were bombing so many bridges? Now you know.
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