Expert warns China's Three Gorges Dam in danger of collapse; Residents in lower reaches of Yangtze River should brace for evacuation: Chinese hydrologist

Taiwan News ^ | 06/23/2020 | By Ching-Tse Cheng

[ElkGroveDan]

Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo

Who will unfortunately die of COVID 19 next week.

[KC_Lion]

Ping~!

[VTenigma]

You know what they say, “you’ll get that”.

[martin_fierro]

[Rummyfan]

As torrential rains in China continue to wreak havoc on more than 24 provinces, notable Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo (王維洛) has questioned the safety of the massive Three Gorges Dam, warning that it could collapse at any moment.

Of course, Chinese hydrologists have been know to be ... WONG.

[dangus]

If the government scientists from Hubei Province say it’s safe, I’m sure its perfectly safe. After all, Wuhan is one of China’s most important cities and they’d never let anything bad happen to it.

[Gay State Conservative]

IIRC that dam is so huge and holds back so much water that if it gives way China’s population drops by 5%.

[PeterPrinciple]

wow, no mention of global warming?

[TBall]

Hopefully China built it right. I just wish they had done the same with that cheap pipe wrench I bought years ago. oh well lesson learned.

[SunkenCiv]

That'll water your chesnuts.

[dp0622]

They need to start banging out some Arks and like yesterday

[dangus]

Chinese take-out doesn’t just come in white boxes.

[DAC21]

A real shame what a few Hellfire Missiles might do!

[DIRTYSECRET]

If it collapses how will they stir up trouble with the neighbors? I’ve said it here before: What’s a million Chinese?

[SunkenCiv]

Monty Python Yangtse Kiang Song

[George from New England]

Few years back got a fancy chinese clamp-on voltmeter. The rotary switch has always been flakey
It takes like five cycles of the switch to get a usuable reading.

[CincyRichieRich]

Oh no. I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands if not millions of people were killed and buried when they built it in the first place because they refused to move. And all those artifacts were also buried and Lost. A million here, a million there,it really doesn’t matter at the collective is still all that matters.

[Rurudyne]

I remember that.

[hanamizu]

“I just wish they had done the same with that cheap pipe wrench I bought years ago. oh well lesson learned.”

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Or that cheap bridge section on the Oakland Bay Bridge...