Posted on 07/27/2020 7:16:48 PM PDT by BeauBo
China warned that the worst of the deluges that have led millions to be evacuated may be yet to come, after a third wave of floods formed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on Sunday (July 26).
"The flood control and flood fighting situation is severe," China's water resources ministry said in a statement. "The new peak may appear later."
The authorities ordered the Three Gorges Reservoir to save its water-storing capacity in preparation for more flows, and forecast another three days of torrential rain in the southern region.
China's south has been battered by severe floods after water levels reached records. More than 2 million people have been evacuated this month along the Yangtze River, Asia's longest, with 142 dead or missing since the flooding began in June.
It has also caused over 116 billion yuan (S$23 billion) in damage, and impacted more than 2.4 million ha of crops in July.
The Three Gorges Reservoir is expecting water inflows to surge to about 60,000 cubic m per second by about Tuesday.
The reservoir level was at 159.46m as of Monday, down from 164.18m about a week ago. Its maximum level is 175m.
(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...
According to the Nikkei Asian Review, the floods in China have already resulted in the displacement 46 million people, and 17 billion in damages.
They cite Nomura, from a research note on Monday, projecting a 0.2 percentage point drop of third-quarter economic growth, and a higher inflation rate in July and August.
Lots of prime farmland is underwater, and those crops are lost.
Another dangerous week ahead.
Paybacks a bitch.
...although I have nothing personal towards the innocent captives of that communist pit from hell.
Appropos of nothing in particular I’m a little chagrined about a .2% drop in GDP versus what the US has done to itself over CV-19.
Ink more flood
Epoch Times reported:
“Despite U.S. agricultural exports to China falling one-third through May due to trade war retaliation, exports have surged above forecast due to the flooding of 433 rivers across China.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that pork, corn, wheat, cotton, rice, sorghum, and soybean exports to China from July 10 to 16 are trending above the Phase 1 annual rate of $32.9 billion negotiated in January by the Trump Administration.”
...”With China’s monsoon rainfall season running about 46 percent higher than normal, and 17 percent higher than the devastating floods of 1998, about 20 percent of the nation’s arable land is now submerged. This could lead to major crop loss this year, with rice, rapeseed and cotton being the most affected by the floods, according to market analyst firm Seeking Alpha.
Furthermore, the African swine fever pandemic that caused the culling of 180 million infected pigs last year returned as floods unearthed shallow graves and contaminated groundwater.”
If the worst happens I don’t see the dam bust hurting one commie SOB leader who deserves it.
Appropriate moniker considering your grammar. :)
I wonder if any high ranking CCP officials have purchased any put options on the Chinese Stock Exchanges
Karma
Operation Chastise, part 2?
Fruding in China...
“about 20 percent of the nation’s arable land is now submerged.”
What isnt mentioned is that the northern regions crops have burned up from drought. A large per cent of the wheat crop is gone up there.
I can not see any other thing coming but them starting a war to take their populations mind off this whole debacle. That or revolution-I hope it is that.
If they lose 300 million people? So what? They still got over a billion.
We should probably be ready for another supply shortage.
Why all of a sudden are we reading about the terrible thing happening to the poor Chinese people from a regime that seldom publishes its woes and normally only tries to project strength and the excellence of its government, its perfect infrastructure and it's ability to take care of its people? Again, I'm not guaranteeing this is propaganda, but if I'm a manipulative regime doing damage control for Covid, and I can't hide my lies about Covid, I can at least play myself off as some kind of sympathy-generating-victim of something else terrible and awful and woe-is-me-dont-hate-me-Im-in-pain.
Maybe. Maybe not.
When the Three Gorges dam blows cue up the Led Zeppelin.
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Farm damages yet to be seen. Lots of bad news to come.
Most evil regime in human history.
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