AsiaTimes: People in cities along China’s Yangtze River, which have already been inundated with water, are now scrambling to shore up embankments and dykes before the Three Gorges Dam releases more water and towns are swamped again by the third big flood this summer.
The Yangtze has again become a raging torrent. On Monday evening, stormwater started to pour into the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze’s middle reaches at more than 60,000 cubic meters per second.
The amount of water is the same as the peak flow rate 10 days ago, which added more than 10 billion cubic meters of water to the mega-dam’s artificial lake.
After the National Meteorological Center in Beijing flagged fresh deluge warnings last weekend, the China Three Gorges Group, the dam’s operator, again put itself on a “wartime” footing.
The company lifted the dam’s floodgates and spillways on Saturday and Sunday to discharge water to partially empty the 39.3 billion-cubic-meter reservoir so it could be used to block the expected flood starting from Monday, with tributaries and lakes off-stream still overflowing. more
Hmmm, a country known for cutting corners and lying now sez, nothing wrong here.
I wouldn’t wish that dam bursting on our worst enemy…oh wait, they are our worst enemy.
Just like everything I’ve ever bought from Harbor Freight, the dam is only slightly deformed. Just get another one when it fails.
Oh … that’s a shame …
izlamo delenda est …
Whoever wrote the article couldn’t spell dykes/dikes right. Call me picky about grammar but damn it, spell it right, dykes and dikes are two completely different things.
That’s a nice dam ya got thar ya commie bastards. Be too bad if sumfin’ were to happen to it.
geoff the aardvark
JULY 30, 2020 AT 8:33 AM
“Whoever wrote the article couldn’t spell dykes/dikes right. Call me picky about grammar but damn it, spell it right, dykes and dikes are two completely different things.”
…so when the little Dutch boy in the story stuck his finger in the dyke, it was REALLY a story about preteen sexual abuse by militant lesbians?
…great, now I’m gonna have to reread “The Emperor’s New Clothes” for subtext, too, and Hans Christian Andersen also wrote a book called “The Red Shoes” that this puts in a COMPLETELY different light…
…Trump to be blamed immediately after the dam fails because, racism, or something…
Geoff, since they used metric system in the article, I suspect an english poof.
Do they spell ‘dyke’ the same way they spell ‘tyres’?
It would be ashamed if some hackers closed a few more of these gates and finished the damned dam off as a thank you for all the cyber and intellectual theft in the past.
A real shame.
@ Answerman Cooper July 30, 2020 at 8:21 am,
I purchased a heavy and very noisy angle grinder some 20 years ago, used it frequently and had to throw it in the trash about 4 months ago…… not too bad for $19. THIS DAM SUCK!
CCP plan to wash the covid away?
@Answerman – if it wasn’t for Harbour Freight, the Uighyurs would not have gainful employment and education opportunities
Wasn’t it Chairman Mao who said “we have a lot of people, we can afford to lose a few.”
@Cooper
The problem with Harbor Freight is you can return something as much as you like, but you’re still getting the same piece of crap back that leaks, falls apart or doesn’t work.
Old Monty Python:
Oh, Yangtze, Yangtze!
Beautiful river
River, full of fish
😃
CC, or like how the English spell jail/gaol. No wonder the English language is so confusing, we can blame it on the Brits and the way they spell things differently than Americans do.
@ Toenex JULY 30, 2020 AT 10:05 AM
I buy stuff like rope that is for some temporary job, zip ties, quick links and chain hooks from Harbor Freakshow. It is only about ten blocks from my home.
I have MAC, Snapon, New Britton, Klein, old Sears Craftsman, Plumb, Cornwall, Blue Point etc mechanics tools and Milwaukee cordless power tools. They make perfect sense if, and only if, you treat your tools with respect.
I was helping a guy finish remodel who lost or destroyed every tool he ever got his hands on. I told him exactly why I would not bring any of my personal tools over. He was OK with the miter saw with plastic gears breaking down within a couple months. There was zero chance he would know where it was by that time.
Nothing bad enough could happen to the chicomms.
@ JD
I use some of their stuff, for leaving on the job site.
It’s just most of the things that have moving parts are always suspect for good reason
Dam breaks, tens of millions downstream will die; tens of trillions of dollars in damage; causing a collapse of the word financial system
And CNN will be on it round the clock …
Wait a minute!!! Another noose was discovered; Al Sharpton is calling a press conference
Apparently, there’s a chink in the dam.