Major dam failure in China

[OVERKILL]

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/pol...-after-typhoon-rains-breach-guangxi-reservoir

Two sections of the dam, yielding a 50m split, collapsed, creating massive flooding downstream. There's no comment on potential loss of life, if there is any, yet.

Dams are of course not designed to be over-topped. When this happens, the stress created can, as illustrated here, lead to failure. As infrastructure ages, this becomes a greater concern, and none of these dams, in China, and elsewhere, are getting any younger.

Whenever something like this happens, it's not uncommon for Three Gorges to get brought up, and what a failure of that structure would look like in terms of devastation. I'm hopeful that we never have to find out.

A youtube video of the chaos:

 

[KGMtech]

Poor design? poor maintenance? or substandard materials? China does not have a reputation of being especially protective of its citizens.

 

[DCDG]

they'll figure it out. they got the resources to build underwater war islands I mean the country used more cement in the last 20 years than America has used in 150 years.

 

[CleanSump]

Poor design? poor maintenance? or substandard materials? China does not have a reputation of being especially protective of its citizens.

All of the above. With Thailand's earthquake last year, the only major building damage was really old wood structures in small villages and Chinese contractor built buildings in cities where post earthquake inspections showed the Chineses contractors cheated on materials and design.
Modern buildings by Thai national and other foreign contractors just swayed.
I'll add that some contractors went to jail and others are banned from doing business in Thailand now. They don't fool around like here.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Dam!

 

[ripcord]

I hate the fact that I automatically start to assume that things like this are an AI created hoax.

 

[cptbarkey]

Plainly Difficult on YT has quite a bit of Dam failure coverage over the past 100 years, rather interesting.

 

[Lawnman23]

Plainly Difficult on YT has quite a bit of Dam failure coverage over the past 100 years, rather interesting.

I stumbled onto him years ago, love all his nuclear science and reactor stuff.

 

[Pablo]

I hate the fact that I automatically start to assume that things like this are an AI created hoax.

I did exactly that.

My Chinese pals in HK always said something when there was a dam failure, mine accident, etc

"In China, people are expendable."

 

[OVERKILL]

I hate the fact that I automatically start to assume that things like this are an AI created hoax.

Doesn't help that I think the cover "photo" is in fact AI, but the video itself looks legitimate.

 

[ripcord]

Doesn't help that I think the cover "photo" is in fact AI, but the video itself looks legitimate.

That's what made me assume that it was

 

[OVERKILL]

That's what made me assume that it was

Unfortunate, an often safe assumption these days with the incessant slop.

 

[ripcord]

Unfortunate, an often safe assumption these days with the incessant slop.

Well at least a semi sophisticated person can still spot AI generated images most of the time. Who knows how that will have changed in another year.

 

[CleanSump]

I did a websearch on dam break in China before I even ran the vid. I'm leery of anything on YT or the other popular sites.

 

[Oliveoil2]

Climate change.

 

[ripcord]

Climate change.

Those words are kinda banned on BITOG

 

[dogememe]

All I can say is dam, that's a bummer.

 

[danstraylee]

Climate change.

Those words are kinda banned on BITOG

Why is that? Global warming too?

 

[oil pan 4]

Climate change.

So did climate change cause something like 700 government built apartment buildings to collapse in Venezuela too?

 

[Oliveoil2]

Those words are kinda banned on BITOG

Thanks ripcord, I appreciate your contributions to BITOG….but that’s silly and it deny’s the elephant in the room.