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

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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 beginning—this 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 city’s 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.

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An aerial view of the flooded area in China's southwestern Chongqing on Aug. 19, 2020.

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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.

[duckbutt]

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?

[conservativepoet]

China, you don’t what’s happening do you?

[Honest Nigerian]

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?

[Scram1]

“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.”

[sauropod]

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[Fungi]

Did you fail English 101?

[KC_Lion]

Yikes!

[budj]

OK, I put “know” in there without even knowing it.

[amorphous]

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.

[Mark]

How many American expert Democrats helped in designing the safety features?

[Bikkuri]

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;

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

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.

[webheart]

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 can’t admit faults so they hide the true numbers. The other funny thing is that progressive Democrats will give us the same thing.

[jmacusa]

There’s a God in Heaven. Drown you Commie rats.

[spokeshave]

If it pops...some nuclear power stations will get flooded....hope they can pull the control rods out quick

[Herakles]

Aaaaah, u put the control rods in to shut down a nike, just trying to help.

[caww]

Taken on Aug. 19, 2020 shows a view of the flooded Hongyadong scenic area in Yuzhong District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.