- severe damage to the masonry
- a crane failure that opens/closes the sluice gates
- several turbines (power generator) have failed (possibly three!?)
- extreme siltation (dirt) at the bottom of the dam, which additionally clogs and damages the turbines
The muck comes from the flooding and is currently settling on the dam.
So the dam is supposedly standing, but has been overflowing for weeks, which is why the water level is no longer rising. I don't know how many hundreds of villages there are flooded, but if a metropolis with 32 million people 600 km away from the dam is also flooded, then it is possibly very serious.
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DARK TO LIGHT
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Those computer-generated narratives can be hilarious. Three Georges Dam, as in George Bush or George Washington. But mispronunciations aside, while I wish nothing but total destruction on the CCP, I do feel profoundly bad for the Chinese people who simply want to live their lives but who will have their lives turned upside down from these poorly constructed dams. Many will die and we will never hear about it.
This is what happens when a population has no means to defend itself from a corrupt and incompetent government. They become serfs, expendable plug-and-play units that their overlords don't really care about. Lesson learned.
With the total blackout of info from there and only stock photos coming out, it's hard to even know what to think. Is the dam breaking, is it not breaking, what gives!?
I definitely feel bad for the innocent in the way if the thing does fail. I doubt they would be given any real notice, if so.
I've read somewhere -- don't ask me where, I read so much stuff nowadays -- that upward of 114 million people could be affected if / when the Three Gorges Dam collapses. Also, cities like Wuhan (yup, THAT Wuhan) could be under water.
I've heard something similar... numbers that are basically beyond comprehension. Almost seems unreal because we've been hearing it was collapsing for 2 or 3 years now, but that's probably how these things work. Could go whenever, I guess. I just hope they give them some warning, if it does.