Very Heavy Flooding in China

[Dotini]

Massive flooding is currently taking place in China. Loss of human life so far seems minimal, but there is concern for crop loss and further damages. The source of the record rains and flooding seems to be exceptional monsoons. The world's largest dam at Three Gorges is said to be in distress.



Miscellaneous links for background info:

https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/three-gorges-dam-under-fast-mounting-flood-pressure/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/asia/china-floods-rain.html

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Nat...new-floods-as-Three-Gorges-Dam-under-pressure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_China_floods

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrap...ity-of-massive-three-gorges-dam/#62b6733a4d50

https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...on-impacted/story-OSsPDfRJhpGLZQfQjGmYJN.html

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3094790/china-floods/index.html

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3974752

https://swarajyamag.com/science/chi...deformation-of-controversial-three-gorges-dam

https://www.scmp.com/video/china/30...-river-piles-pressure-chinas-three-gorges-dam

 

[Sjaak]

Here is a site with an animation video what will happen when the dam breaks.

https://www.geenstijl.nl/5154596/doe-maar-paar-zandzakken-stapelen/#more

 

[Dotini]

Here is a site with an animation video what will happen when the dam breaks.

https://www.geenstijl.nl/5154596/doe-maar-paar-zandzakken-stapelen/#more

The video is said by Epoch Times to be produced by the CCP, possibly as an unofficial warning.

IMO, the Epoch Times is an unalterable foe of the CCP. The below video has the best brief critique I have seen of the dam and its many problems.
This is more or less the 2nd quarter of the video. Take a look.



Inflow, outflow, floodgates, sacrifice of cities to protect dam.

 

[Dotini]

Dangers from floods continue to mount in China.


Yet another typhoon

 

[UKMikey]

I'd like to see how the anti-climate change brigade explain this one. Perhaps they'll writeit off as shoddy Chinese civil engineering.

According to the analysts quoted in this article the flood will knock around 0.17% off China's GDP.

https://fortune.com/2020/08/08/china-2020-floods-economy-gdp/

 

[Touring Mars]

I'd like to see how the anti-climate change brigade explain this one. Perhaps they'll writeit off as shoddy Chinese civil engineering.

According to the analysts quoted in this article the flood will knock around 0.17% off China's GDP.

https://fortune.com/2020/08/08/china-2020-floods-economy-gdp/

This caption may be in line for an 'Understatement of the Year' award

Residents on July 15, 2020, ride a boat past a damaged house near Poyang Lake

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

There's going to be a lot of people crestfallen that the 3-gorges dam didn't fail.