CN Three Gorges Dam on alert as heavy rain and floods kill 6 in China - What could potentially be one of the worst ecological disaster in human history

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The Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest, is on high alert as floods triggered by torrential rains wreak havoc in the southwestern part of the country.

Record rainfall in Chongqing has caused flooding in a dozen districts and counties since Thursday, raising the water levels in 29 rivers, state news agency Xinhua reported.


Six people have died in the region which has received over 250mm of rain, according to the Chongqing Hydrological Monitoring Station.


An aerial drone showed a township submerged in muddy waters.

Dianjiang county in Chongqing received 269.2mm of rain on Thursday, the highest in a single day ever.

The rains have affected over 40,000 people, forced the evacuation of several areas and damaged 1,800 hectares of crops, CCTV reported.



The rains and subsequent flooding have also disrupted operations at the Chongqing railway station, leading to the suspension of 26 train journeys on Thursday.


The Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Thursday raised the flood emergency response to level 3 in the four-tier response system in which level 1 is the most severe.

“As flood preparedness and response enter a critical period, we should strengthen warnings and monitoring and timely evacuate people in areas at risk of geological disasters,” Chongqing’s mayor, Hu Henghua, said on Thursday. “It’s better to be extra careful to prevent any potential losses.”



Authorities are also facing challenges along the Yangtze river basin as the water level in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir has risen to 161.1 metres, the highest ever in July, according to China’s Ministry of Water Resources.

Heavy rainfall is anticipated in the upper reaches of the river over the next 10 days, with a new round of floods expected to flow into the reservoir around 16 July, Changjiang Water Resource Commission said.

A flood with a peak flow of 45,000 cubic metres per second is forecasted to enter the reservoir on Friday, and two other significant water surges are expected in mid-July.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Whenever something in China say 6 people died I usually multiply it by 100

 

[Mark Robinson BussyLiquor]

HAARP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

WATCH THE WATER.

LET'S GO BRANDON TO Q ++ !

 

[Otterly]

The problem is in the fact it's the last dam, in a series of dams, built on the river. Upstream are some really shady dams, built in areas known for massive landslides. A catastrophic failure of a dam upstream, would cause all of that impounded water to rush downstream, bringing a massive amount of force, and debris to slam against anything downstream.

Ouch. It’s silted up as well. Imagine the content of the silt - run off from china’s love affair with every toxic chemical known to man. I wonder what the last few years of flooding has deposited in fields that are still used for agriculture

 

[AnotherPleb]

Ouch. It’s silted up as well. Imagine the content of the silt - run off from china’s love affair with every toxic chemical known to man. I wonder what the last few years of flooding has deposited in fields that are still used for agriculture

Don't worry, I'm sure the chinese have been maintaining that dam.

 

[Shiki Ouji]

people on this thread are saying "this was a nothingburger in 2020" but it's the same as the inevitable wildfire that takes out a whole city in the American West - it might happen this year, it might happen in 5 years, it's going to happen within your lifetime.

Paradise, as unfortunate as it was, was a tiny blip on the map. No major city is going to be destroyed by a wildfire, so the parallel doesn't work here

I meant more corruption, sabotage but good point.

Can Chinese Communism get anymore corrupted?

 

[milk]

Don't worry, I'm sure the chinese have been maintaining that dam.

They have been, by randomly releasing the water and flooding their citizens.

 

[4090 Chad]

I think tying human leadership to the idea of literal divinity is such a stupid idea that Europe realized it didn't make sense literally thousands of years ago.

And look where most of Europe is now. Gay and browning themselves at such a rate that rape and violence levels are starting to resemble nigger filled US cities.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

And look where most of Europe is now. Gay and browning themselves at such a rate that rape and violence levels are starting to resemble nigger filled US cities.

Treating people like Merkel as though they are a direct connection to God probably wouldn't help that. Even the best monarchs left that sort of thing to the papacy.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Baiji river Dolphin will be avenged.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Didn't this almost happen in 2020 or so? And it ended up being a giant nothingburger

EDIT: I don't doubt that it will happen at some point, but if this is a repeat of 2020, they had four years to do something about it

I seriously opened this thread thinking it was an old thread from 2020-2021 that someone necro'd because there's been an update or something.

 

[Otterly]

I think tying human leadership to the idea of literal divinity is such a stupid idea that Europe realized it didn't make sense literally thousands of years ago.

The concept of Divine Right is what we have. ‘Dieu et mon droit’ is still the motto

 

[frozen_runner]

I think tying human leadership to the idea of literal divinity is such a stupid idea that Europe realized it didn't make sense literally thousands of years ago.

But you can see why it was useful at one point in human history. In a totally chaotic world, the divinely- dictated, undeniable correctness of your choice of leader at least created some stability upon which you could start building civilization.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

ALLAH! SHATTER THE THEEE GORGES DAM, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

I think tying human leadership to the idea of literal divinity is such a stupid idea that Europe realized it didn't make sense literally thousands of years ago.

European Monarchs never had absolute rule. For the most part of their history they were heavily reliant on their land owners for all forms of support from economics to military.
You're thinking about Emperors of Antiquity, Egypt and Japan.

 

[thx1138]

I'll be waiting for it to break.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good!

All Led Zeppelin aside, I remember the blurry /pol/ photos with .jpg artifacts "absolutely" "proving" that the dam was going to "break any minute".

But to flip it back the other way: China is very much like the USSR (but with Walmart and iPhones) in the '60s. The Soviets had massive nuclear disasters at Chelyabinsk that made Chernobyl look like a fart in a windstorm. I don't think it'll be this year, or in the next 5 years, but something's going to snap there. When it does, China will have two choices: start WW3 to try and cover their asses or just fucking quit and beg the world to save them.
Or dissolve into regional factions fighting for control over five hundred million screaming Chinamen.

 

[mold]

Paradise, as unfortunate as it was, was a tiny blip on the map. No major city is going to be destroyed by a wildfire, so the parallel doesn't work here

Santa Rosa has burned partially twice

Fort McMurray burned all the way up and was never fully rebuilt

The Eagle Creek fire was very close to taking out Portland in 2017 and the Holiday Farm Fire was very close to taking out Eugene in 2020

parts of LA (LA is not really one city obviously) and Berkeley/Oakland are at extreme risk

people do not realize how bad the situation is because there is no coherent media push about it (also because the one western city that went entirely poof was also entirely populated by pro-social white people so communications and evacuations were orderly; the only deaths were in traffic)

it's not just the west of north america either, it's everywhere that has bullshit "eco" anti-fire control policies. Western Europe, Greece, and Australia are just as fucked.

 

[pot of sneed]

I wonder what the last few years of flooding has deposited in fields that are still used for agriculture

I'm sure there are lots of tasty mutant animals, the ones they didn't all gobble up the first time round.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Or dissolve into regional factions fighting for control over five hundred million screaming Chinamen.

I have full on brainworms, because I got flashbanged by Red Dawn when reading this.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

European Monarchs never had absolute rule. For the most part of their history they were heavily reliant on their land owners for all forms of support from economics to military.
You're thinking about Emperors of Antiquity, Egypt and Japan.

That's why it is thousends, in plural. The earliest pre-roman civilizations and cultures of Europe most likely also had god-kings, altought it would be more akin to god-chieftains due to their small scale.

But you can see why it was useful at one point in human history. In a totally chaotic world, the divinely- dictated, undeniable correctness of your choice of leader at least created some stability upon which you could start building civilization.

Most of those leaders/dynasties were quickly replaced, and in a rather violent fashion when compared to their european counterparts. Egypt got almost 30 dynasties even before getting conquered by the persians, that's an average of one dynasty every 130 years

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

You're thinking about Emperors of Antiquity, Egypt and Japan.

And even the Roman Emperor never had absolute power. He could be checked by the Senate in matters related to Italy itself and had to deal with all of the politics of the various provincial governors, legates, and bureaucrats.