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No Break In China: Heavy Rain Hits Yangtze River Again, Inundating Cities and Leaving Many Homeless
Epoch Times ^ | 08/16/2020 | Nicole Hao

Posted on 08/17/2020 9:59:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: everyone

Trump working that HAARP weather machine like a boss.


41 posted on 08/17/2020 10:50:42 AM PDT by lerker
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To: DannyTN

Not with the whole world mad at them.

But on the other hand, they have certainly been beligerent to their neighbors in the last few months.


42 posted on 08/17/2020 10:50:55 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 9YearLurker; SeekAndFind; miserare

“What about the reported risk of the Three Gorges Dam failing?”

It survived the first three floods of this year’s big monsoon rains.

This sounds like a fourth flood now shaping up, so it may become another test. By historical norms, this would probably be the last flood of the peak of the monsoon season - or the first post-peak. We will have to see how it shapes up.

So many factors come into play, it takes real experts with real big data to project accurately. There has been a couple of weeks for areas to drain, and the dams to release their back up.

Sounds like the rain is now falling more upriver, behind the dam (Chongqing). Some of the earlier storms really flooded harder downstream from the dam (like Wuhan).


43 posted on 08/17/2020 10:53:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SecondAmendment

dunno

they can just exploit the virus like the us has done


44 posted on 08/17/2020 10:57:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

That video looks like it accounts for the increased water level, but not the force of the impact. I very much doubt that a wall of water that size would make a 90-degree turn to follow the bend of the river, without splashing over the bank in the process.

As bad as that video shows it, I think the reality would actually be worse.


45 posted on 08/17/2020 10:58:55 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: BeauBo

3 Gorges damn is fine, they can just releases more water to flood the lower town like Wuhan. China don’t care. BTW, I am loving this new climate change....all the canes are in the pacific and away from the GOM! lol


46 posted on 08/17/2020 10:59:13 AM PDT by baclava
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To: caww

yup

its not only if 3gd holds

its also potential cascade failures of older dams upstream


47 posted on 08/17/2020 10:59:50 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Ellendra

Probably much worse.

I am currently (pun intended) reading Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” and in it he describes how the Mississippi River is continuously re-directing itself, shortening itself, lengthening itself and making new islands appear and making old islands disappear.......................


48 posted on 08/17/2020 11:03:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have been watching Epoch Times on Youtube for several weeks now. The message about China flooding cannot be conveyed in print. the youtube videos convey a message that is simply beyond words and numbers. Compared to this monsoon season in China, Katrina was but a drizzle. The scope of the china flooding is incomprehensible.

Numbers are given assume that China has the ability and desire to collect and publish numbers describing cope of the flooding. The flooding has been in process for at least a month now. On the Yangtze, there have actually been four separate floods with no recovery in between. That is, flood waters have been in place in some locations for weeks. There are two weeks to go of the monsoon

A popular video is of the flood gates of the Three Gorges dam and then commentary on how it is going to fail. That threat has never materialized so the videos are of traffic in the flooded streets. Rescues from the rushing torrents are also popular. One extremely common video is of cars and even an occasional van truck floating down the river. Floating cars are extremely common. Cars with water up to the windows by the hundreds are also common.

Epoch Times video verges but perhaps never quite reaches anti China. I think it may be a pro Falon Gong outlet. Any way, their videos are quite interesting and certainly provide China info not available anywhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvZOU_lozM

I suggest watching some of the flooding video to grasp what is coming and how it might affect the world. It isn’t pretty


49 posted on 08/17/2020 11:04:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies.....all of them)
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To: baclava

“...all the canes are in the pacific and away from the GOM!”

September is usually the peak of our season, but so far, so good.


50 posted on 08/17/2020 11:15:11 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: bert

So basically, China is flushing its toilet.


51 posted on 08/17/2020 11:15:19 AM PDT by Dacula ( If you won the lottery, would you mail in your ticket or go in person? Remember that when you vote.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Your link has a chart in the bottom right, which shows the water level behind the dam (158 meters), and how much they are releasing downstream (increasing).


52 posted on 08/17/2020 11:19:34 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: DannyTN

Don’t roast dogs alive. Don’t kill endangered species so you can get a boner. Don’t harvest organs from prisoners. On and on and on.


53 posted on 08/17/2020 11:20:38 AM PDT by Scarpetta (I)
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To: lerker

I thought the weather machine was in Karl Roves basement at least according to memes from the Katrina years.


54 posted on 08/17/2020 11:23:17 AM PDT by xp38
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To: cuban leaf

The major loss to the CCP is not the people but the electricity generation.


55 posted on 08/17/2020 11:34:24 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: caww

That’s India, not China.


56 posted on 08/17/2020 11:37:11 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: God is sending Xi a message. Unfortunately Xi and his party do not believe in God.

God doesn't believe in them, either.

However, I do not allow myself to contemplate what God is thinking.

Example: Satan must be delighted and dancing with happiness that the Chinese killer Wuhan Virus has brought America to her knees, totally ruined our prosperity and personal freedom at least for now, caused increases in depression and suicidal thoughts along with spousal and child abuse, terribly hurt the prospects of the God fearing Americans' candidate Donald Trump and emboldened the BLM supporters (black and white) to riot and loot at will.

Churches were shut down by anti-God Dem governors and now fewer people have returned in most areas than before the virus. Catholics are planning more school closures and consolidation of parishes. Some people may have lost faith. Many seem to question if God is allowing all this by some plan or merely to enforce his love for free will being preserved.

Personally I believe God never allows harm without it being part of a greater good. Even if we can't understand it at the time.

57 posted on 08/17/2020 11:39:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Ellendra

The reason you hear nothing is that all you heard before about the Three Gorges Dam was hype to sell papers.

If it bleeds it leads

The dam is now and always has functioning as designed


58 posted on 08/17/2020 11:44:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies.....all of them)
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To: Ellendra
The CCP's Ministry of Water Resources has already issued another flood warning for the upper reaches of the Yangtze, and raised their warning level to yellow for Three Gorges Reservoir........Note the comment that inflow will max at 70,000 CBM/sec. Prev high was around 64,000...


59 posted on 08/17/2020 11:45:09 AM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: Red Badger
Last spring (2019) the Mississippi at the Quad Cities was above Major Flood Stage for 51 consecutive days and in Moderate FS for a bunch more.

Chit happens.

You play the cards you're dealt.

60 posted on 08/17/2020 11:58:09 AM PDT by skimbell
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