Remember when redditors were stroking their dicks over the possibility of the three gorges dam in China breaking and killing thousands?
Gee I wonder if your average Chinese netizen is gloating over this happening to burgers?
Gee I wonder if your average Chinese netizen is gloating over this happening to burgers?
I hope so they deserve to gloat
This kinda stuff is going to happen more and more often, isn't it?
It's all but guaranteed. We spent ages making things with tolerances that could, for instance, sustain a once in a century storm. Which makes sense and was a good idea at the time.
What we did not do is make things that could be hit by such events consecutively year after year.
In addition a lot of the maintenance (or god forbid upgrading) has been deferred for decades.
As climate change gets worse, yeah, I fear this is probably only the beginning.
Multiple dam failures looking likely in NC. Doesn't take as much rain to cause flooding with the mountains over there. I've heard people saying there are entire houses floating down the Swannanoa River
