small dam being overtopped is a bit unnerving. This is San Clemente dam Carmel River California.
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 ...
karma had to wait for them to finish the dam.................
No it would make them very very dangerous.
And, buy food commodity brokers stocks as a hedge . As food prices rise, so will the stocks.
Food tip of the day:
Whole pork loins at Costco for $1.49/lb, about $12.00 each.
Yield:
12 each Pork Chops 1 inch thick.
2 each 1.5 pound Pork Roasts.
Vacuum sealed and deep frozen will keep for nearly a year.
We bought two.
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That July 17th shot sums up everything:
The Police Officer is wearing a MASK, oblivious to the raging horror coming his way, while he watches a Maru CAT VIDEO on his phone.
OMG!
I would always reply, “so send it to them then!”
The dam will not fail.
The hydrologists seem to have the situation under control and are regulating flows to impound upstream and then release as required to reduce the effects downstream
There are dikes upstream that have purposely been breached to allow areas to be flooded thus reducing the pressure on the dam.
They are now experiencing the third flood which is apparently greater than the first two and in expectation have opened 9 flood gates to reduce impoundment volume in anticipation of the coming flood.
However, the flood damage is beyond catastrophic already . China has build heavily populated areas directly in the flood plain. Although few people have actually died, millions, perhaps even tens of millions are displaced and homeless. The number of automobiles and trucks destroyed is uncountable. The flood plain is largely croplands and the already destroyed crops in the field cannot be harvested. This includes hogs observed to be swimming in the flood.
There is a journalistic tendency to hype the Three Gorges Dam while avoiding comment on the actual flood. The monsoon still has two weeks or so to go.
One wonders if China actually has the governmental ability to save the country
If they have any regard for the clear lessons of history, the Chinese will not start a war they can’t finish.
Catastrophic flood and famine is not a good position.
The problem really is China plugging the largest water basin in the world with this dam.....China has more large dams than any other country in the world, more than 87,000!....A week or so ago they blew up a large dam with explosives in order to release the build up of water.
I’ve been watching this for the last few weeks, and also when they were building the 3 Gorges Dam around 2012 and all the controversies about it. The chat gets interesting at night when US engineers etc. offer opinions on what’s happening there. Althoug it would be daylight there.
Here’s live feed and it’s overflow is currently operating at max.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhddcv7p2QM&feature=emb_logo
And a Live feed at Wuhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPcpE5pWqI
I understand it’s a matter of the Chinese priority on how they stagger the release of water and where. They will try to save as much of the big cities as possible, even though most are already badly flooded.....the farmland and rural areas will be “sacrificed for the collective good”. but they doo want to do whatever is necessary to save the dams from failing.
An US engineer said a couple nights ago that before the 3 gores dam fails you will see spillage over the side areas of the dam which is what to watch for.....the dam itself may hold fr awhile but the top overflow will create great instability in dam already under pressure and unstable.
Glenn Beck's recent article is very informative...and scary..."The floods in China are a global disaster - JULY 27, 2020"
https://www.glennbeck.com/blog/the-floods-in-china-are-a-global-disaster
small dam being overtopped is a bit unnerving. This is San Clemente dam Carmel River California.
Overtopping is very dangerous, because the overtopping water can erode bedrock adjacent to and/or underneath the dam, leading to tunneling, which of course leads to complete failure...
bkmk
“1. immediate (and large) loss of life
2. loss of a large chunk of farmland (food)
3. loss of a large chunk of power generation
what other consequences am I forgetting?”
There can be secondary issues with major disasters, like social unrest/looting, sanitation/disease in refugee camps, etc., like after Hurricane Katrina.
Remember the long process of recovering bodies from the World Trade Center after 9-11, with thousands missing? That would be so dwarfed, with millions missing.
Potentially, there could be a string of Fukushima-like nuclear power plant malfunctions, releasing radioactive contamination. I have not heard how their designs would hold up under such conditions. Hopefully, they have emergency shut down on a hair trigger.
Global supply chains are excessively concentrated along that river, for many products. The Yangtze is a major part of the industrial heartland of China. The Pearl River Delta in the South (Guangzhou, Shenzhen) is the center of the electronics industry, but a lot of chemicals and industrial parts are along the Yangtze, as well as a lot of prime farmland.
Pharmaceuticals and biomedical (test kits, PPE, etc.) have been mentioned as particularly concentrated there.
Just one example is the precursor chemicals used to produce the synthetic opioid fentanyl, that is the cause of so many overdose deaths in the USA - they come predominately from one huge company in Wuhan.
Nikkei Asian Review talked about the Japanese auto industry - almost all their car companies have production facilities along there.
If even one part is not available, engines can’t be assembled. For the want of a nail... the war was lost.
So supply chain disruptions would ripple widely through the Global economy.
In addition to the facilities, the skills and knowledge of the people in those industries - the human capital - could be lost. Those experts are concentrated where the production is concentrated, and they cannot easily be replaced, to reconstitute production elsewhere, just by throwing money at it. It takes years or schooling and experience.
In the current Global environment, many firms, and many National Governments of major industrialized Nations, would likely not return to re-establish lost facilities in China, after a total loss.
There would be financial strains on China as well - huge expenses, and a huge drop in tax revenues. Massive debt defaults. They are primed for a half dozen different financial crises already, without a Biblical flood to deal with.
I agree. But it still wouldn’t solve the food problem. They could still turn on the government.
Bye bye Wuhan. Hopefully nothing bad will escape that lab or if it does, hopefully there’s enough water to dilute it to harmlessness.
There are reportedly satellite photos showing the TGD is out of alignment which would show severe undercutting and cracks in the structure. I am not an engineer and I cant verify the photos.
The chinese love their shark fin soup and have been slaughtering harks for years just for the fin. The sharks might get payback soon.
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