Since early summer, devastating floods have wreaked havoc in southern China due to torrential rains caused by the rainy season, with most of the flooding observed around the Yangtze basin and its tributaries.
Local officials are calling the latest flooding a “once in a century” event, with a typhoon making landfall Wednesday.
China’s largest river, the Yangtze, continues to rise to dangerous levels after another round of rainfall. More than 100,000 people on Tuesday, in the Sichuan province, were evacuated from their homes, reported Reuters.
China Central Television published video footage of a road collapse in southwest China, swallowing 21 vehicles on Wednesday.
The southwest and central regions of the Yangtze river basin have been hit with unusually high levels of rainfall in the last couple of months due to flood season.
The Ministry of Water Resources warned Monday that 38 tributaries along the upper part of the Yangtze were at critical levels.
Some 63 million people have been affected by the floods, with economic damage totaling $26 billion.
A red alert was issued late Tuesday by the water commission, who said some monitoring stations along the river were expected to rise above flood protection levels. The ministry also warned about the Three Gorges Dam, indicating water inflow levels continued to increase, with water inflows registering 74,000 cubic meters per second on Wednesday, the highest ever.
The dam underwent a series of water discharges on Tuesday to “reduce flood control pressures,” the water ministry said.
As we’ve noted, there are serious concerns about the structural integrity of the dam following elevated water levels:
- Is China’s Massive Three Gorges Dam On The Edge Of Failure?
- “Rumors Of Structural Faults” – China’s Three Gorges Dam Could Be Nearing collapse
The floods in the Yangtze River also struck the Leshan Giant Buddha statue in southwestern Sichuan province. Floodwaters crested over the toes of the Buddha, the first time since 1949.
Last week, China’s slower-than-expected rise in industrial production and a decline in retail sales suggested the Chinese Communist Party can now blame devastating summer floods on why the economic recovery is faltering.
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if 3 gorges fails it would set china back at least 20 years,maybe longer–
it might also cause a worldwide environmental disaster b/c there are about 60 nuke plants below 3 gorges–
So are we for it or against it?
fukushima on steroids–
So are we for it or against it?
definitely 4 it,we don’t need our west coast
Let’s get Joe Biden’s advice on this one.
It would also raise American grocery prices substantially.My guess is by 1/3d
Of course, our Government would make sure that China gets food while our food prices go into the stratosphere.
Bottom line is this…..if that storm goes north slowly the rain accumulation will take out the dam for sure……Hop Sing then just kiss his ass good bye…..
Xi will have another crisis on his hands……
Confucius never say sow the wind reap the whirlwind.
Who were these 3 Georges anyway? Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton?
When it fails, I predict 3 gorgeous damns: damn, Damn, DAMN will be uttered in Mandarin.
All kidding aside, when will these pretenders to God’s throne stop playing weather games with the only planet we have?
The Democrats will blame it all on Whites, esp Trump.
Why hasn’t the CIA demolition team been summoned?
If it goes it will take out Wuhan, then Shanghai. Some say there are no coincidences and no accidents, that everything happens in the cause of order, justice, and karma. That’s a tall order for the 400 million people directly in the path of a flood, something like one other that cleaned up the world. Lotta factories in the path, too, that supply the world with stuff, some of it useful. Then there are the more than several nuclear plants which destroyed would have dire consequences to waters way beyond Shanghai. If the gods wanted Seattle to pay up, you’d think they could have found an easier way.