Who has dam bursting for September?
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Beijing: With COVID-19 virus cases still emerging from the country, China is bracing for another major challenge as extreme floods have hit Three Gorges dam in Hubei province.
The dam recently recorded the largest inflow of water in its history.Following the incident, officials even assured people the water level would not be breached.
Inflows to the world’s largest hydro-electric dam reached 75m litres of water a second, according to state media. By Thursday morning, 11 outlets of the dam had been opened to discharge 49.2m litres of water a second, the largest release since its construction, reports The Guardian.
Parts of China witnessed heavy flooding for the past two months.
75 million liters of water PER SECOND.
Officials have repeatedly assured that the dam can withstand the flow of water.
Remember China is an asshole....
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I wouldn't be downstream of the dam right now. Chinese quality control can be lacking sometimes.
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I wouldn't be downstream of the dam right now. Chinese quality control can be lacking sometimes.
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I don’t remember exactly but something like 25% of Chinese production takes place in that valley that could be flooded.
So that’s like 300MM people suddenly looking for another food supply.
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I don’t remember exactly but something like 25% of Chinese production takes place in that valley that could be flooded.
So that’s like 300MM people suddenly looking for another food supply.
@jon-nyc said in Who has dam bursting for September?:
I don’t remember exactly but something like 25% of Chinese production takes place in that valley that could be flooded.
So that’s like 300MM people suddenly looking for another food supply.
Whoa.
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I've been following this since the monsoons started, since it effects Wuhan and my suppliers. It would be catostrophic if this, the largest such dam in the world, were to give way. Critical threshhold is 185 meters, where the water would come over the top. That can't happen, they can discharge enough water, but of course that flooda all the cities that are on the Yangtse river. It really is amazing how this flood of floods is barely mentioned by the MSM. Oh yeah, I forgot, they're busy.
Taiwan is probably the only source where reasonable information can manage to get out. Otherwise, it's the CCP spin on everything.
Link to video
This is a live camera, although there have been times when someone has caught the CCP running a loop.
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China is suffering from massive flooding even with the dam holding. It's been going on for months now. The CCP, in an effort to calm the people, did news stories showing all the grain they had stockpiled to keep them from panicking over the massive crop destruction. What they found when they got into their grain reserves was that most of it had been ruined.
It doesnt matter how hard the CCP tries to avoid buying grain from the US over the next couple of months. They don't have much choice. It's either buy American grain, or face mass starvation in china. Not something the CCP wants to have to deal with at this point where the communist party is beginning to crack. It's going to be a seller's market.
