If that dam goes, it’s gonna affect the whole world, bigly.
RE: If that dam goes, it’s gonna affect the whole world, bigly.
Despite many FReepers wishing it were so, I believe the Dam has been engineered to withstand this kind of flooding.
But they have high hopes....................
Even if it doesn’t go, it has probably been stressed
beyond limits, another flood, another time may see it go.
That dam is not going to go and is in no danger. It has 42 flood gates and the most used so far are 9. The level of the lake impounded nas been lowered by design, by breaching levees up stream to allow the river to flow into the natural flood plain that extends for untold square miles.
The chinese hydrologists have the flood under control with several dams and breached levees. The proof of this pudding is Shanghai which is on the river but has not been flooded by flow control upstream.
For the record, Severe flooding on out mississippi river is also controlled by breaching levees in the same manner.
Not hoping for a disaster when the war drums are beating, but few realize during the Korean War, China massed and launched over 380,000 troops across the NK border to push back our troops.....our retreat was all the way to the current DMZ . What stopped the Chicoms from pushing the US into the sea? A huge pandemic, a FLU which incapacitated and killed over 60 percent of the Godless hoards. The devastation was so great the Chicoms accused the US for unleashing biological weapons ( check out the Chicoms propaganda posters of those days)....point is, the good Lord works in mysterious ways,.....God’s plan will not be changed by man, rest easy, fear not.
Dam is solid! You Yankee go home! You no not no talking about!
Here comes the flop
It would be a tragedy for the Chinese people, but it would not affect the whole world in the long run.
They’re already underwater even with the dam. Oh lookee here...Tropical Storm Higos is supposed to hit China tomorrow!