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

[Vince McMahon]

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ru.wikipedia.org

" В этом тексте Иоанн Богослов приводит древнегреческое название полыни апсинтион (абсинтион, в другом прочтении акинтион), что означает «непригодное для питья». Сегодня считается, что под словом «апсинтос» подразумевалась полынь белотравная[4], или же полынь горькая, тогда как полынь обыкновенная — и только она — в те времена по-гречески называлась артемизией (αρτεμισία), в честь богини Артемиды. "

I posted too quickly, before adding the last part about common mugworth. It's a minor difference based on translation from the original Greek.

Touche. You are correct it seems.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Touche. You are correct it seems.

No worries. Not to powerlevel but it was pretty much my backyard too.

 

[I can't imagine]

edit: Heck and I didn't even mention COVID. Throw that onto the pile as well. Yikes!

Not just COVID. There's a whole lot of homeless people right now, either in shelters or left to the elements, and the risk of water-borne disease is significantly raised. Past flooding in China has led to outbreaks of the bubonic plague, which they had cases of already earlier in the year (albeit in Inner Mongolia, quite far from the Yangtze). So, there's potential for starvation, disease, exposure. The human toll of this won't be fully known for months, and, well, it's China, so we'll probably never fully know it ourselves.

 

[BeboRefugee]

Do we have a map of the destroyed dams yet? Might be useful highlighting the areas left to drown by CCP for the Greater Good...

Also, maybe this sounds silly, but can China even afford to repair TGD? When there's this much water you're gonna need to put it somewhere else to fix the dam. If China thinks the distortion is noteworthy then you'd think it warrants some repairs, right? But between the economic recession, floods downstream, and various alternatives international finance could pump liquidity into right now (they know Europe will pay back their corona-loans) has China the means to fix problems even if they admit such problems exist?

 

[Cycleye]

Do we have a map of the destroyed dams yet? Might be useful highlighting the areas left to drown by CCP for the Greater Good...

Also, maybe this sounds silly, but can China even afford to repair TGD? When there's this much water you're gonna need to put it somewhere else to fix the dam. If China thinks the distortion is noteworthy then you'd think it warrants some repairs, right? But between the economic recession, floods downstream, and various alternatives international finance could pump liquidity into right now (they know Europe will pay back their corona-loans) has China the means to fix problems even if they admit such problems exist?

Even if they get back zillions of bucks in corona loans and international aid, the land and infrastructure is really fucked, already, in the affected areas. I mean really fucking fucked. Even if the rain magically stopped; the floods are going to take a long time to go and some water may be there for ever more. I would say that area of china is presently a right off and for a very long time.
If the rains carry on it is just going to push recovery even further down the line and if the 3GD blows it must be curtains for the CCP. These floods combined with covid, plague and god knows what other diseases and environmental issues the floods are going to lead to,might be the fucking end of that god awful regime. The fucking end.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Take this particular thing with a grain of salt. It's one of those things people here know but I can't give you any evidence.

I do know that they've been using their money here quite a lot and they have a significant presence. I don't know the extent of it or the specifics.

Don't let the Chinese take your food. Chinese currency contains even fewer essential vitamins and minerals than American currency.

Oh also I forgot about this in the big list of problems in China right now. This was posted in the thread earlier and has also been causing problems in India and Iran:

Locusts.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Have not seen these posted in a while: http://www.cjh.com.cn/swyb_sssq.html (Chinese source)

Here is a water flow chart for various locations. It's a bit rough as I copied/pasted in the translations, but you get the idea. It is dated the 25th of July and data was collected at 11AM. I am not sure why the incoming flow for Three Gorges is absent sometimes. But the CCP's efforts to lower the reservoir at the Three Gorges Dam seem to be working.
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Here are the last three charts that I saw posted in this topic for comparison. They are all from the 19th of July and reported at 9AM, 11AM, and 2PM respectively.
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Sorry for the double post. But it's an effort post!

The flow charts have updated (25th of July at 2PM):

Unlike before, we also have measurements for water flowing in and flowing out at Three Gorges Dam. There has been an increase in the reservoir's water level but it is only .04 meters. It also appears that the outflow has dropped by 100 cubic meters per second.

I can't extrapolate much from this because I haven't been keeping measurements all week and only just restarted today. Maybe there's a way to see chart history on that website but I can't read a damn thing on there. The translations I have are because I just happened to save a picture from earlier in the thread that had translated the names. So any help would be great. Also I can't promise to be able to reliably give these updates, my internet is not reliable.

Also has anyone heard from @AltisticRight? I'd love to get some news from China and Chinanet concerning this event. Sadly they have not been online since the 10th of July.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Do we have a map of the destroyed dams yet? Might be useful highlighting the areas left to drown by CCP for the Greater Good...

Also, maybe this sounds silly, but can China even afford to repair TGD? When there's this much water you're gonna need to put it somewhere else to fix the dam. If China thinks the distortion is noteworthy then you'd think it warrants some repairs, right? But between the economic recession, floods downstream, and various alternatives international finance could pump liquidity into right now (they know Europe will pay back their corona-loans) has China the means to fix problems even if they admit such problems exist?

The thing with China, is that they have an almost alien cultural cost/risk/benefit analysis system, when it comes to things like massive earthworks.

If they throw enough bodies at the problem, eventually the problem gets fixed (or the bodies fill the holes, and the memories of the problem go with them).

 

[The 3rd Hooligan]

Wasn't Mao the guy that initially came up with the idea for the dam in the first place? The same guy that thought there would be nothing wrong with killing all the sparrows?

Chornobyl is "wormwood" in Ukrainian, btw.

Im pretty sure thats not the case but it was rather named after mugwort

 

[Jaimas]

Don't let the Chinese take your food. Chinese currency contains even fewer essential vitamins and minerals than American currency.

Oh also I forgot about this in the big list of problems in China right now. This was posted in the thread earlier and has also been causing problems in India and Iran:
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Locusts.

Are we absolutely sure that God doesn't want China destroyed at this point?

 

[The 3rd Hooligan]

Im pretty sure thats not the case but it was rather named after mugwort

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Nwm thats the same thing. Im dumb

(I cant edit it sadly)

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Water levels in the reservoir are still rising albeit slowly at the moment. But that also factors in several dams being blown up and every floodgate open.

The weather forecast for Sandouping (where the Dam is located) is uh... well, take a look for yourself:

Given the nature of the rainy season in China, I would expect similar weather for the surrounding regions that feed into the reservoir. Obviously there can and will be some changes to the forecast (we all know how predicting the weather goes) but that's not a very optimistic outlook. And I'm not sure what else the CCP can pull out of their bag of tricks to mitigate accumulation in the reservoir and inundation up and downstream.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Seems then President Winnie the pooh is trying some distraction for people to not think about 3GD.
https://twitter.com/dlnetherlands/status/1287093929826017280

http://archive.vn/mexsc

Edit: These underground air defense facilities, are they close to flooding areas? If they are, I can't imagine more additional consequences.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Seems then President Winnie the pooh is trying some distraction for people to not think about 3GD.
https://twitter.com/dlnetherlands/status/1287093929826017280

http://archive.vn/mexsc

If the dam breaks it was clearly an act of war by the Americans. There is absolutely no other conceivable alternative. After all, while China is number one, America can control the weather, conjure earthquakes, and rain hellfire down from outer space. DUH.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

If the dam breaks it was clearly an act of war by the Americans. There is absolutely no other conceivable alternative. After all, while China is number one, America can control the weather, conjure earthquakes, and rain hellfire down from outer space. DUH.

That or as one of these posters mentionned then India might aiming nukes at China?

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

That or as one of these posters mentionned then India might aiming nukes at China?

With the way the Chinese have been making friends lately I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians have a few pointed their way as well.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Do we have a map of the destroyed dams yet? Might be useful highlighting the areas left to drown by CCP for the Greater Good...

Also, maybe this sounds silly, but can China even afford to repair TGD? When there's this much water you're gonna need to put it somewhere else to fix the dam. If China thinks the distortion is noteworthy then you'd think it warrants some repairs, right? But between the economic recession, floods downstream, and various alternatives international finance could pump liquidity into right now (they know Europe will pay back their corona-loans) has China the means to fix problems even if they admit such problems exist?

Repairing the dam requires acknowledging that the dam is broken in the first place.
If the dam now manages to hold firm, they will declare that victory of their superior socialist planning and foresight, some asshole will cut back on maintenance funds and channel the money into his own pockets and the dam slowly builds up minor damages until it breaks for real.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Repairing the dam requires acknowledging that the dam is broken in the first place.
If the dam now manages to hold firm, they will declare that victory of their superior socialist planning and foresight, some asshole will cut back on maintenance funds and channel the money into his own pockets and the dam slowly builds up minor damages until it breaks for real.

I'm not even sure how to go about repairing a dam of that size with a reservoir so large.

 

[Otterly]

How many active nuclear plants are on the Yangtze? I know they’re building or planning to build inland but aren’t most on the coast? Are there any currently active plants along the river?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I'm not even sure how to go about repairing a dam of that size with a reservoir so large.

I guess any work in that area would require draining most, if not all, of the water, that alone would take an absurd amount of time and can only happen as long as it doesn't threaten to cause floods downstream.
And most importantly, it would be a very visible sign that the dam is a failure.