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Floods caused dikes to break in Sichuan, Tam Gorges dam increased the speed of water discharge Many localities in China have been affected by the flood that the country's government calls "one hundred years" on January 15. State media reported heavy rains for several days broke the dyke and flooded in Sichuan province, leading to new flood warnings in the upper Yangtze River basin, which also poured into the Three Gorges dam reservoir.
Officials in Sichuan yesterday raised the emergency warning to level 1, the highest level on the four-level warning ladder, after the Qing Y River and its tributaries overflowed.
China Daily quoted a local official in Tu Trung district as saying: “More than half of the province's area has been flooded. "The road to the district has been flooded and the district itself has become an isolated island". Sichuan residents were severely affected, unable to account for all the casualties. Since June, China has struggled with a series of terrible floods concentrated in the south. The water level at Tam Hiep Dam, the largest hydroelectric project in the world, is 164.2 meters high. The maximum water level that the reservoir can receive is 175 meters.
Authorities are implementing flood control measures at dams along the country's longest waterway, the Truong Giang River. At Tam Hiep dam, the flood discharge on January 14 was raised to 54,000 m3 / s, from 45,200 m3 / s, with flood discharge to the lake from the upstream branches expected to continue. increase.
Floods continue to raise concerns about dam safety. "Due to the massive inflow of water, upstream dams are under increasing pressure, while floods are inundating localities in their catchments," says Heritage Foundation, lead researcher and consultant. know. I know. . Books of America, said in a January 13 report.
About 55 million people in 27 of China's 31 provinces have been affected by the flood that lasted in the second half of January, with at least 224 people dead or missing in this flood as of January 14. , The Department of Emergency Management said. Direct economic loss due to floods is estimated (31 billion USD), 24% higher than the 5-year average.
These losses, expected to increase in the coming days, only complicate China's recovery from the corona virus pandemic.
"China's economic data for December provides additional signs that the recovery remains unbalanced and depends on special policy support."
A little bit is better than nada, but sometimes you want the whole enchilada....
I hope the whole dam collapses.
A few more floods and thing will not hold. It was made on the cheap and will eventually show it.
Pretty sure this is news from last summer, it’s not even rainy season in china right now and there’s no news of flooding or three gorges being inundated from other sources.
“Was”.
The Chinese had a close call but it turned out OK.
Though there were some losses.
There are literally hundreds of 3 gorges dam videos. They are written in text which is read by a Macintalk voice. The text highlights some words in blue, although it isn’t very choosy where it highlights. sometimes it highlights word that aren’t the ones you would naturally highlight if you lived in the west. A lot of them are repetitive and it has gotten very difficult to tell which videos are current and which ones are recycling flood images from this past summer. In July and August, they had horrendous flooding. I think a lot of the stuff on youtube is just recycled content trying to get you to click. It is massive clickbait.
Having said that, it is apparent that during the past summer monsoon season, a lot of farmland was flooded, and a lot of rice was destroyed. They had a pig pandemic which made them kill a lot of their pigs, causing pork prices to rise. The upshot is that the cost of food here in good old USA is going to skyrocket as the Chicoms come over here and buy up our food supply.
While you should never take financial advice from an internet troll, I will say that I sold all my stock mutual funds and put the money in a commodity fund. It’s been doing pretty well so far.
We need LANDSAT or other satellite photos of the Before and After scenes of the 3 Gorges Dam flooding. That will tell us a lot about what happened and could happen.
Accept no photos from Diane Feinstein, Eric Swalwel or Adam Schiff.
Bidet will send them $5 trillion in emergency aid. It’s the patriotic thing to do, right?
Then, as it approaches simply send a command to release a “meteor” (wink , wink) and boom!, no more Three Gorges Dam, or whatever other enemy infrastructure we decide to target. Follow up by sending condolences to the enemy country for their terrible luck, and you’re home free.
And if we’re really in a bad mood, release all of the reentry vehicles at once. Presto!, meteor storm.
The dam collapse is only a matter of time, it will happen at some point. it is already bulging
The casualties from even dam attacks in the past has been limited. The Ruhr valley dam busting raids killed under 2,000 people, and this was in Germany, which has a 50% higher population density than China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
The theoretical Three Gorges Dam raid that keeps getting mentioned is probably exaggerated in its expected effects. Dams generally tend to get built far away from settled areas. The idea being that if the dam cracks, casualties will be limited.
The Three Gorges Dam is big, but not some massive monstrosity beyond anything ever built, in terms of the volume of water penned in (39.3 cu km), which is comparable to the Hoover Dam (35.2 cu km):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
Canada’s Daniel Johnson Dam contains 4x the water volume of the the Three Gorges Dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel-Johnson_dam
Bottom line is that in the worst case, and the dam is completely destroyed, such that every drop of water behind it flushes to the surrounding area, it would inundate, to a depth of ~12 ft (~4m), 39.3/(.004)= 9825 sq km. That’s a 55 km (~34 mile) radius from the dam. Not exactly the kind of flood that got Noah’s home brew yacht project going. No fun for the people within that radius who have to seek shelter either on the roof of single story homes or above the second story of one of the many high rises that China has taken to building, but not exactly the tsunami that took out Japan’s nuclear power plant.
Capacity of dam = 39.3 cu km
Height of flood water = 4 m
Circular area covered by 4 m of flood water
= 39.3 cu km / (4 m * 1 km / 1000 m)
= 39.3 cu km / 0.004 km
= 9825 sq km.
Radius of area covered by 4 m (~12 ft) of flood water
= square root (9825 sq km / (pi = 3.14) )
= square root (3128 sq km)
= 56 km
~ 34 miles
But the reality is likely that after a bomb attack, the super thick base (131 ft, according to Wikipedia) would not be completely washed away, and only the top portion of the dam would release the water behind it. Note even the concrete debris would serve as an imperfect dam, since it would likely settle after traveling a short distance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
And that is the likely reason the dambuster attack was such a fizzle in terms of human carnage. It succeeded in cutting hydroelectric power to German industry for a period of time, but as part of the meatgrinder aspect of war, it was a footnote.
Note also that a deliberate release by dam operators is a different issue. Then, every drop of water would release to the surrounding area. This was done during WWII by the Nationalists during the Sino-Japanese War as part of a scorched earth strategy, and ~500K Chinese civilians are said to have died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood
Should communist China attack Taiwan then I would think the big dam might become target.
Chinese damn expertise coming to a river near you!