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 ...
Lol That is a classic scene.
Portland?
mt mom used to say at dinner, eat your food, there are 100 million starving chinamen. Some things repeat them selves.
“Doesn’t this dam generate power for most of central China?”
That would be another significant (and long lasting) effect of a complete rupture type of failure.
The likely alternative to replace all that electrical generation for many years, would be oil, gas and coal; which China generally has to import, at the cost of hard currency, rather than their own profligately printed Monopoly money.
Eat your vegetables, people are starving in China.
Americans might suddenly become more appreciative of Peter Navarro and Kodak.
(In fact, they might wish he had resurrected Polaroid for some instant pharma, too.)
Classic history. Great experience you had.
. I'd be interested to know how fast they're letting it out.
Built for a 1000-year and then 100-year flood, it turns out it may not have been up for a 100-month flood.
Big changes are coming for the US just from this COVID crisis. I read today that 60% of the restaurants that have closed, will never re-open and will file bankruptcy. So perhaps the jobs we’ll have in this country again will only be manufacturing jobs.
Imagine you’re a recent “undocumented” worker who just arrived in the US, and you find out that all the jobs disappeared when you arrived. Gonna be some pi$$ed off, and mad about it, hombres.
13 days until China washes away 400 million people and 15-30 percent of its industrial base. In 13 days Walmart and Amazon will have to find new suppliers, hopefully American companies.
Lot of nuclear power plants down stream.
“Think of all the starving children in China” is what my Mom used to say.
I still wouldn’t eat that asparagus...
From article at post 40: peak of 60,000 cubic meters/second (m3/s) in. 37,000 m3/s max outflow.
At least until it overtops.
I’d be interested in the three to five paragraph version of your comment if you care to elaborate.
However, I think I’ll go to sleep before you can write it because I’d rather read it in the morning than have nightmares.
FReegards.
Freegards as well :)
I can appreciate your scenario and see it as possible but unless I’m missing something, they would still have a food crisis.
Yes!
They wouldn’t even have to waste the nuke. Just have their reporters mention that saboteurs were seen near the dam before it blew. Enough propaganda and they’ll make people believe anything.
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