Posted on 07/27/2020 12:03:48 PM PDT by Heartlander
WUT? A dam caused a flood? WTH? Oh, duh. Glow bull climate change or ‘climalarkey’. Climageddon? RECORDED history.
Thanks. This was very informative.
This is the biggest story not being covered by our media. If the dam goes, and maybe even if it doesn’t, this year’s flooding in China is a huge story with lots of implications for China’s future.
If only there were a way to blame Trump, that would make the media cover it.
“What should Americans do?”
Stop buying packaged salad.
I feel sorry for hard working honest Chinese but i think if the three gorges damn collapses the world wil be better off in the long run. The CCP is evil and the more they fail the odds of them being removed by Chinese citizens increases.
I also feel a connection to the “netizens” that risk their lives to post on the net the truth of what is happening in China.
I feel bad for the Chinese people but, this sounds like great news for the American farmer.
China=Don’t care.
Our Army Corp of Engineers and BOR frequently consult the Chinese on all of their major dams. Thankfully, their focus of concern are primarily only earthquakes as per soil liquefaction undermining structural integrity. I pray nothing seismic related affects that dam.
The Three Gorges stuff is spin to flesh out the article.
The author frets about the three gorges hype and leaves out the important part of the flooding. Further, believe it or don’t, there is also severe drought to the north of the flooded areas in Central China.
There are lots of videos of the flooding all mention the three gorges dam but there are other dams in worse shape and it seems lots of what they call dams and we think of as levees. Those levees prevent flooding of bottoms where there were crops growing. Those levees were purposely broken to relieve the river flood pressure down stream. There are many videos of the levees being parted by large excavators.
Further, there are cities and towns and villages all along the Tangtze river and tributaries that have been seriously flooded or just washed away in the torrent. There are endless videos of submerged cars and trucks in the middle of a river that stretches as far as you can see to the side. There are cars literally floating down the river. There are fantastic land slides. there are bridges shown as they collapse. There are multistory buildings toppling into the flood. There are doomed hogs swimming in the water above their flooded pens.
In New Orleans, there were hundreds of thousands in peril. In China, there are tens of millions in similar peril.
There is some talk of the excess flow resulting from op0ening flood gates on various dams opening the government to lawsuits for damages. It seems that the government is not liable until the flood gates are opened. Guess they have ambulance chasers in China too.
Bottom line. The extent of the flooding is incalculable and will seriously affect the whole chinese economy. China will desperately need food and American farmers and vendors will supply some of it. Do you own commodity company stocks?
Seems more like an “opportunity” than a “disaster.”
China=Don’t care
Then there’s that old ‘Mandate of Heaven’ thing where rulers get cast down if the nation suffers a string of ‘bad luck’. Between the virus, the flooding, the diseases that have crippled their poultry and hog production, 2020 could be considered a ‘bad luck’ year for the Chinese government. We can hope.
And you may ask, what happened to my beautiful dam?
What will China do regarding their relationship with other countries if the 3 gorges dam fails?
Are we looking at WWIII, are we looking at a financial boon to american farmers, or what?
Beck crying Armageddon again. This is not a global problem. It is a ChiComm problem. Substandard engineering and materials = eventual disaster.
Secretary of State Pompeo has said that China is in need of a regime change.
A dam collapse could hasten that day with little or no American bloodshed.
It’d be a dam shame for the CCP. /s
This is the biggest story not being covered by our media. If the dam goes, and maybe even if it doesn’t, this year’s flooding in China is a huge story with lots of implications for China’s future.
https://goo.gl/maps/8Z9Z28d6npSv4erKA
Here is a link to the Wuchang Shipyard, located in Wuhan China. Makes subs, warships, yachts and lots of off shore oilfield equipment. The Yuan and Song class submarines are built here.
The Yangtze River is larger than the Mississippi River (at least in terms of flow), so you can imagine what a massive flood can do to civilization along its’ riverbanks.
I suspect that Shanghai is safe, if only that the PRC can flood hundreds of miles of farmland to save PRC investments within the city.
Much like any flood disaster anywhere, the reality won't be know for a long time after it subsides.
After all, what if the floods so damage infrastructure that next years’ crops can't be planted, or properly harvested?
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