Posted on 07/29/2020 8:04:13 PM PDT by BeauBo
People in cities along China's Yangtze River, already swamped with water, are now scrambling to shore up embankments as the world's largest dam faces fast mounting flood pressure...
The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze, Asia's longest river, which has become a raging torrent with storm water pouring into the reservoir of the dam at 60 million litres per second on Monday night.
On Tuesday morning, dam operator the China Three Gorges Group said water flow into the reservoir fluctuated between 50 million and 60 million litres per second.
And the peak flow has not eased, adding more than ten trillion litres to the mega-dam in just 10 days.
All arteries leading from the Yangtze River remain deluged by the third big flood this summer.
The China Three Gorges Group say they plan to hold as much water in the dam as possible to buy time for cities downstream to build up their defences.
According to local reports, the dam's operator has indicated there are 13 days left before the reservoir will fill to the brim.
(Excerpt) Read more at 9news.com.au ...
There are a half-billion people living downstream from that dam; if it fails, many of them will be rotting carcasses bobbing in the Pacific Ocean.
Wasn't the ugly new Oakland Bay Bridge built by a Chinese firm? Hmm.
Their incompetence would be on full display in the failure AND in their response.
Trying to cover up what was to become the deadliest pandemic since Spanish Influenza instead of taking decisive action to stop Covid in its tracks was not humiliating enough?
“Humiliating”? They found a response to Trump’s tariffs. The only thing humiliating about it was that they discovered it by accident because of some f@#$-ups in a bio lab, when they should have done it on purpose.
He’s right.
You can do the research. The area that will be flooded produces about 20% of the world’s grain supply in particular.
He didn’t mention that if the dam goes, CCP will have about 25% fewer people to feed themselves. That could mitigate prices.
We don’t need a desperate china right now. Financially this will utterly ruin them if it fails, and then the real panic will set in.
we do NOT want a desperate China with all the other sh*t going on. Financially this has already put them behind the 8 ball, I’m all for a weaker China but not catastrophically so, this coupled with Covid will devastate them.
I worry about that level 4 lab where the Wuhan virus was created. It is in the path. Who knows what else is brewing there that would escape and foisted on the world....
“...for cities downstream to build up their defenses...”
Newsflash: if that dam breaks there is nothing but the hand of God that can save those cities.
A lot of our frozen food is sourced from China.
It is inevitable that sooner or later something REALLY BIG built by this inherently incompetent system fails.
The bursting of the Three Gorges Dam will probably be the end of the CCP. Xi realizes that his hold is tenuous and that makes this a very dangerous time for the whole world (i.e., war).
Mediocrity and corruption. What a winning combination!;-)
Hate to burst your bubble but the very same thing will happen in America.
Let’s stop pretending our freedoms/rights protect us from judgement.
People here on FR cheering for a catastrophe need to give this situation a little thought. If this dam breaks the entire world will be negatively impacted. And food prices will skyrocket is absolutely correct.
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“i hope their dam system fails. and the commie one too.”
Down stream are the factories that produce the ingredients for our drugs. And 100 million people.
NOW is the time for the CIA to DYNAMITE that damn dam!
Don’t forget the locusts. And yes, it crossed my mind. Makes me wonder if God’s hand is in it, but it could just be the Chinese have been hashing it up for decades and now the checks are coming due all at the same time.
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