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Still No Break After Weeks: Chinese Officials Warn That Worst Yet to Come as Flooding Reaches New Record
Epoch Times ^
| 08/20/2020
| Eva Fu
Posted on 08/20/2020 8:48:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Months of sustained downpours have battered China with floods unseen in decades, displacing millions and testing the limits of the worlds largest hydroelectric dam.
Such rainfall is far from over, according to Chinese officials who, in a rare admission, said grim challenges are ahead.
July and August usually bring some of the heaviest rains in China, which swell the flood-prone Yangtze River. Yet, Zhou Xuewen, the vice minister of water resources tasked with containing floods, said the rain season will continue through September, with a very high likelihood of severe floodings, according to a recent State Council Information Office press conference.
The flooding since June has affected at least 63.5 million people and caused close to 179 billion yuan ($25.9 billion) in direct economic losses, according to authorities. Stormwaters have overwhelmed more than 600 Chinese rivers and destroyed harvests in 1.14 million hectares (more than 2.8 million acres) of arable land in the lower reaches of the Yangtze.
Typhoons and more rains are expected to befall northern China in the coming weeks.
The Three Gorges Dam saw its water rise to 16.81 meters (55.15 feet) above warning level on Aug. 20, the highest peak since the dam was commissioned in 2003. It’s predicted to climb by another 3.7 meters (12.1 feet) on Aug. 22. Eleven discharge gates were opened on Aug. 20 to ease pressure on the dam.
While Beijing has consistently asserted that the site, built along the upper reaches of Yangtze River, has shielded surrounding regions from flooding, experts have raised concerns that the structure has made matters worse.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; chinafloods; chinafloodsphotos; flooding; photos; threegorgesdam; yangtze; yangtzeriver
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Whether the Three Gorges can play a role in preventing flooding in the current situation, or if the Chinese government has deceived the Chinese public from the beginningthis has been made pretty clear for people throughout the years, Wang Weiluo, a Chinese hydrologist based in Germany, told The Epoch Times in a
recent interview.
The megacity Chongqing experienced its most widespread flooding in four decades on Aug. 18, forcing authorities to raise the flood alert to the maximum level. The citys officials shouted via loudspeakers for anyone on the streets to take urgent safety measures before the flood water rushed in.
In nearby Sichuan Province, as muddy waters rose over the toes of the 233-foot Leshan Giant Buddha statue, officials had to evacuate about 180 tourists from the 1,200-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site.
To: SeekAndFind
An aerial view of the flooded area in China's southwestern Chongqing on Aug. 19, 2020.
To: SeekAndFind
A security guard looking at his smartphone while water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, to relieve flood pressure in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, on July 19, 2020.
To: SeekAndFind
It’s not only the weight of the water slamming that dam, but what about the mud, trees, building debris, cars? How much can it stand?
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posted on
08/20/2020 8:53:20 PM PDT
by
duckbutt
(Those who pay no taxes have no check on their appetite for services.)
To: SeekAndFind
China, you don’t what’s happening do you?
To: duckbutt
If the dam holds it might gyive China a little respect in the world of civil engineering. So what is the Las Vegas line on that dam holding up until say Labor Day?
To: SeekAndFind
“According to the Xinhua state news agency, a traditional local saying holds that if the Buddha’s feet get wet, Chengdu - which has a population of 16 million people - will flood too.”
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posted on
08/20/2020 8:58:53 PM PDT
by
Scram1
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
08/20/2020 8:59:06 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I will not comply.)
To: conservativepoet
Did you fail English 101?
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posted on
08/20/2020 9:00:22 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: SeekAndFind; Army Air Corps; Bikkuri
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posted on
08/20/2020 9:07:03 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
To: Fungi
OK, I put “know” in there without even knowing it.
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posted on
08/20/2020 9:07:21 PM PDT
by
budj
(Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe China is mystery Babylon.
If the Chinese people are looking for solutions, I suggest putting the pictures of Christ back up in their churches and taking down those of Xi.
To: SeekAndFind
How many American expert Democrats helped in designing the safety features?
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posted on
08/20/2020 9:19:37 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
To: SeekAndFind
Why does it remind me of that last house owner that wouldn't give his land up (I believe in China).. The govt. removed everything around it , including about 50 feet of the land around the house.
Wish I could find the picture;
It was something like this;
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posted on
08/20/2020 9:22:59 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: SeekAndFind
As we said in the old country, “Flood, Baby, Flood”.
You give us Wuhan Bats and Coronavirus. God gives you the Yangtze and floods. Not a fair trade for those Americans and others who died from Red Chinese intent and/or carelessness, but payback’s a bitch.
To: SeekAndFind
What is funny is that they have to be forced to raise warning level to red. They have lost millions of acres of crops. The part of China experiencing flooding is blowing up levees to give the water some place to go. They say 175 people have died in the flooding but it has to be in the thousands but the CCP cant admit faults so they hide the true numbers. The other funny thing is that progressive Democrats will give us the same thing.
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posted on
08/20/2020 10:18:44 PM PDT
by
webheart
(Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
To: SeekAndFind
There’s a God in Heaven. Drown you Commie rats.
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posted on
08/20/2020 10:57:29 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: SeekAndFind
If it pops...some nuclear power stations will get flooded....hope they can pull the control rods out quick
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posted on
08/20/2020 11:06:27 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
To: spokeshave
Aaaaah, u put the control rods in to shut down a nike, just trying to help.
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posted on
08/20/2020 11:24:17 PM PDT
by
Herakles
(Diversity is applied Marxism!)
To: SeekAndFind
Taken on Aug. 19, 2020 shows a view of the flooded Hongyadong scenic area in Yuzhong District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.
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posted on
08/21/2020 12:03:18 AM PDT
by
caww
( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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