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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me either but there’s always collateral damage
and its nature doing it not other people, so no blame for us
the other real kicker is there are some pretty big dams above the three gorges dam and if one of them goes....
nope we’re not taking in anyone from china
nope, i think its just bad rains and the problems that occur whenyou put dams all over places that didn’t have them before
the mississippi and its tributaries have problems all the time and we have dams of all kinds all up and down them
Yeah i have a soft spot for the animals, none of this is their fault, and they die in scores and swaths.
millions were displaced for this dam.
same sign, look at rhe characters more closely
C’mon Mother Nature, drown them Commies!
I don’t give a rat’s hind leg for the Chinks.It’s their government, their country, their screwed up culture. Life’s a bitch. It’s worse when you embrace Communism.
But Communists are big into standardization of messages.
I was trying to see if items on the horizon matched.
On close examination, it is not certain. The angles the photographs are different enough to not be certain.
It may be the same sign.
Yes.....as said there’s more issues that will come.
China must not be too worried as they’ve only opened 3 of the 22 gates.
How many of the 23 bottom outlets are open?
All of them.
How much higher can the water get before maximum capacity is reached? Can the dam withstand that capacity being exceeded, and by how much? (assuming the best and the fears about Chinese quality control are unfounded)
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