China Floodwatch 2020-21 - Wuhan, Hubei/Henan Province is sinking and I dunno how to swim.

Is the Three Gorges Dam kill?

  • Yes

    Votes: 310 78.7%
  • No

    Votes: 84 21.3%

  • Total voters
    394
  • Poll closed .
I'm torn in very much wanting an abusive belligerent government to fall, and very much not wanting thousands of people dying in floods. Of course, a government that size collapsing will probably bring about a river of blood with or without any floods, so I suppose I'm just naively optimistic in hoping China stops being a giant douche without a body count.
 
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I'm torn in very much wanting an abusive belligerent government to fall, and very much not wanting thousands of people dying in floods. Of course, a government that size collapsing will probably bring about a river of blood with or without any floods, so I suppose I'm just naively optimistic in hoping China stops being a giant douche without a body count.

I feel the same way, you're not the only one. We've been lucky then the Berlin Wall collapse didn't bring a river of blood.
 
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I'm torn in very much wanting an abusive belligerent government to fall, and very much not wanting thousands of people dying in floods. Of course, a government that size collapsing will probably bring about a river of blood with or without any floods, so I suppose I'm just naively optimistic in hoping China stops being a giant douche without a body count.
The 3 Gorges Dam going would be a disaster for China and the world order as it currently stands. Now you could argue we'd all be better off eventually but the rest of 2020 at the very least will be an utter nightmare that'll make everything up to this point look like roaring good times.
 
The 3 Gorges Dam going would be a disaster for China and the world order as it currently stands. Now you could argue we'd all be better off eventually but the rest of 2020 at the very least will be an utter nightmare that'll make everything up to this point look like roaring good times.

I guarantee BLM and covid bs would disappear from the media though. Both those "crises" are media funded, encouraged, and incentivized as is.
 
I'm torn in very much wanting an abusive belligerent government to fall, and very much not wanting thousands of people dying in floods. Of course, a government that size collapsing will probably bring about a river of blood with or without any floods, so I suppose I'm just naively optimistic in hoping China stops being a giant douche without a body count.
I think it's an inevitability at this point. TGD went up 10 meters over a 48 hour period last weekend and has only gone down 2 meters over a similar time frame. That's not even considering the rain that's supposed to be coming later this week with three feet of rainfall all over the Yangtze basin. Maybe it doesn't go this year, but there are so many construction problems and geographical concerns that a major event is inevitable. What I want out of this situation is irrelevant.
 
China 2020: the virus is contained, cases per day aren't going up much at all.
Also China 2020: the flood is contained, water levels per day aren't going up much at all.

So it's fucked, right?

Yep.

Dam only lowered 2m since saturday when it stopped raining. It was adding 4m a day before that.

Add to that the seepage and deformation. Its toast. Rain getting heavy again in the area
 
So it's fucked, right?
I just think everything around it is fucked . I think right now they're trying to balance the integrity of the dam with the distruction down river. If the dam looks like it might go then they will open all the gates and write off everything down river to save ther dam. If we see they have all the gates open and the level is still rising then it's fucked.

lot of loyalty for a tired hun
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I just think everything around it is fucked . I think right now they're trying to balance the integrity of the dam with the distruction down river. If the dam looks like it might go then they will open all the gates and write off everything down river to save ther dam. If we see they have all the gates open and the level is still rising then it's fucked.


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All the gates are open already.
 
Ya I saw that. With all gates open the island becomes uncovered because the resivor level drops. The down stream cities are fucked. The dam isn't lost, it just lost its ability to save the cities. Like your link says.

The dam would be fucked if we saw all the gates open and the island still covered by water. That would mean the gates can't flow enough to keep the resivor level down.
 
Ya I saw that. With all gates open the island becomes uncovered because the resivor level drops. The down stream cities are fucked. The dam isn't lost, it just lost its ability to save the cities. Like your link says.

The dam would be fucked if we saw all the gates open and the island still covered by water. That would mean the gates can't flow enough to keep the resivor level down.

That was the situation up until friday.

They have had 3 days of no rain. Now start paying attention you will see the waters rise again will all gates open.

They blew some dams upstream and flooded rural areas..this was desperation. Theres not much more than can do now except maybe blow the ship lock.

The situation is unraveling slowly.
 
China admits deformation but claims its no big deal:story:

I guess thats normal in China. Get ready for doom as more rain approaches

And then they walked it back later saying nothing was wrong with the dam and there was no deformation AT ALL. I'm thinking the dam is more fucked than they're willing to let on.

I've even been seeing theories that the flood is eating away at the land surrounding the dam. Take a look at this.
upstream vs downstream water quality.png

Why is the water coming out of the sluice gates filthier than the water upstream? Is it sediment going through the sluice and possibly building up in there?
 
And then they walked it back later saying nothing was wrong with the dam and there was no deformation AT ALL. I'm thinking the dam is more fucked than they're willing to let on.

I've even been seeing theories that the flood is eating away at the land surrounding the dam. Take a look at this.View attachment 1463615
Why is the water coming out of the sluice gates filthier than the water upstream? Is it sediment going through the sluice and possibly building up in there?


Looks like one of the flood gates is not working either

And then they walked it back later saying nothing was wrong with the dam and there was no deformation AT ALL. I'm thinking the dam is more fucked than they're willing to let on.

I've even been seeing theories that the flood is eating away at the land surrounding the dam. Take a look at this.View attachment 1463615
Why is the water coming out of the sluice gates filthier than the water upstream? Is it sediment going through the sluice and possibly building up in there?

Hmmm...

There may be sediment building up on the dam below the water creating a slope and blocking some of the water. The water coming out is really pulsing.

Also this..

 
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