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Yangtze River Experiencing Serious Flooding as Water Exceeds Warning Levels at 5 Major Chinese Monitoring Stations
Epoch Times ^
| 05/27/2021
| Winnie Han
Posted on 05/27/2021 8:23:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Floodwaters exceeded warning levels on May 22 across five major monitoring stations of the Yangtze River that runs from China’s west to east due to heavy rainfall in the past few days, according to state media Xinhua News Agency.
The monitoring stations are mainly located in the middle and lower Xiang River section near Dongting Lake, Hunan Province, and in the Xin River section near Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province.
According to hydrological monitoring data released by the Changjiang Water Commission of China’s Ministry of Water Resources, as of 2 p.m. on May 22, the water levels at the monitoring stations of Qilishan (Hunan Province), Hankou (Hubei Province), Hukou (Jiangxi Province), and Datong (Anhui Province) were 30.42 meters, 23.69 meters, 16.88 meters, and 11.50 meters respectively, among which Qilishan station recorded its second highest levels of the past 30 years.
Official forecasts are warning that the Wu River—an important tributary of the Upper Yangtze in Guizhou Province—along with the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze are set to receive more heavy rainfall until May 28, with water levels predicted to rise between 1 to 1.8 meters.
With the arrival of the flood season, submerged areas of Poyang Lake have exceeded 3,000 square kilometers for the first time this year, reaching 3,450 square kilometers on May 22 a month earlier than last year, which also broke records.
Last year’s flood season saw the Yangtze River basin experience its third-largest flood since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came into power in 1949. Poyang lake exceeded 3,000 square kilometers for the first time on June 26, 2020. Water levels in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze’s main course also exceeded warning levels, leading to the largest flows into the Three Gorges Reservoir since its completion in 2006.
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TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; flood; flooding; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; oodaloop; prepper; preppers; threegorgesdam; water; yangtze; yangtzeriver
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To: SeekAndFind
Will the dam hold this year?
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:24:04 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
To: SeekAndFind
Didn’t they just have flooding a few months ago?
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:25:31 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
To: Jonty30
No. And Uncle Sucker will take in a million military-age refugees, while shipping food to China.
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:28:47 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: SeekAndFind
I betcha Trump caused this!
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:30:56 PM PDT
by
O6ret
To: SeekAndFind
Well, I suspect China sees an upside, the impending collapse of the Three Gorges dam will likely wash away much of Wuhan, which will help China cover up their weaponization of Covid and the leak.
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:45:17 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:50:40 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Why is it that so many of Britain's top goalies feel moved to write about the Yangtze? Monty Python's Flying Circus - We Love the Yangtse, from Monty Python's Previous Record.Monty Python - We Love the Yangtze | May 30, 2011 | treemanleeman
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:51:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Jonty30
Is it bad of me to hope the damn thing fails?
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posted on
05/27/2021 8:59:25 PM PDT
by
gas_dr
(Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
To: gas_dr
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:07:43 PM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
To: snuffy smiff
I have watched some news programs and videos — the one that is in the thread from youtube simulating 3 gorges failure is unbelievable. What are the chances that it would suffer failure?
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:10:42 PM PDT
by
gas_dr
(Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
To: Don W
I saw thought. A 3rd of China’s population would be wiped out. It would be the biggest flood and natural disaster in recorded human history.
To: gas_dr
Yeah, I just watched it. Sorry, but I have very little empathy for communists...
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:19:10 PM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
.........A 3rd of China’s population would be wiped out.........They have had at least couple years warning. One would think prudence to have induced the wise to relocate.
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:35:51 PM PDT
by
JParris
To: gas_dr
"Is it bad of me to hope the damn thing fails?"Along with thousands of decomposing carbon based units would be millions of tons of plastic flowing into the ocean.
To: Jonty30
much like the nfl, nba, mlb and nascar
i hope it fails
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:44:21 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Jonty30
The dam itself is probably over-engineered, lots of foreign engineering went into the design and construction:
https://journal.probeinternational.org/three-gorges-probe/who-is-behind-chinas-three-gorges-dam/
The wild card is if a large landslide, caused by one of the frequent earthquakes in the area, caused a tsunami-like effect in the water behind the dam.
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posted on
05/27/2021 9:54:51 PM PDT
by
Left2Right
(There is water at the bottom of the ocean)
To: gas_dr
Is it bad of me to hope the damn thing fails? Well, yes, unless it can be arranged for most of the peoplbreke downstream to escape harm but the gov't to be washed away.
As for your other post, most serious engineers think there is very little chance of a major break causing a huge, sudden surge of water downstream. What is likely are controlled releases sufficient to cause significant downstream flooding. Included in that is, in sort of a worst case scenario if the dam is truly threatened, the possibility of blowing the locks partially or entirely to relieve the threat to the dam. This would create some very bad downstream flooding, but not the sort of "wipe out 1/4 of China" devastation that doomsdayers like to bandy about.
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posted on
05/27/2021 10:06:58 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
To: SeekAndFind; Roman_War_Criminal; SaveFerris; Tilted Irish Kilt; null and void
Another year of flooding means another year of no harvest.
It will not end well.
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posted on
05/27/2021 10:29:13 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Paul R.
Thank you so much. That makes sense. Appreciate your insight
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posted on
05/28/2021 12:23:24 AM PDT
by
gas_dr
(Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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