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China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« on: July 14, 2020, 04:49:40 am »
China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated

CK TAN, Nikkei   |   July 13, 2020 21:27 JST

SHANGHAI -- Despite reassurances by the government, residents along China's rivers are increasingly worried that the mitigation capabilities of the Three Gorges Dam might fail after heavy rains lashed parts of the country.

Some 141 people are already missing or dead, and nearly 38 million people have been evacuated since alerts were triggered in June about the flooding of 433 rivers nationwide, the country's flood control authorities said on Monday.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Natural-disasters/China-on-highest-flood-alert-as-38m-people-evacuated


Can you imagine evacuating 38 million people?  We couldn't even get New Orleans residents to evacuate during Katrina.  If this dam fails, it will be a gargantuan blow to the Chi-Coms, but a totally predictable result of their communist system.
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Re: China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2020, 05:10:57 am »
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Re: China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2020, 06:29:38 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 14, 2020, 04:49:40 am


Can you imagine evacuating 38 million people?  We couldn't even get New Orleans residents to evacuate during Katrina.  If this dam fails, it will be a gargantuan blow to the Chi-Coms, but a totally predictable result of their communist system.
Yabbut, in China, looters would be shot, unlike NOLA.
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Re: China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2020, 08:23:32 pm »
China has just contained the coronavirus. Now it's battling some of the worst floods in decades



https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/asia/china-flood-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
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Re: China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2020, 08:29:03 pm »
I think we send a one man repsonse Team.....

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Re: China on highest flood alert as 38m people evacuated
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2020, 02:56:31 am »
China flooding: 14 killed at Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River as water peaks

Frank Miles   |   Fox News   |   3 hrs ago

Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River were opened as the water level behind the massive dam rose more than 50 feet above flood level, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.  .  .  .

.  .  .  Downriver, firefighters and others finished filling in a 620-foot break in a dike on Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, Xinhua said.

The dike gave way nine days ago, flooding 15 villages and agricultural fields in Jiangxi province, the news agency said. More than 14,000 people were evacuated.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-flooding-14-killed-three-gorges-dam-yangtze-river

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