For you weather geeks: China

[Bed Wetter]

...some weather porn. The Three Gorges Dam (TDG) on the Yangtze River in the Hubei province of China is the largest hydroelectric dam on earth... and it might fail.

http://3gd.mooo.com/

The dam is currently at record input (74,000 cubic meters) and record output (49,400 cubic meters). The current basin depth is around 164 meters. Record depth is about 165 and the dam is said to be capable of holding to 175 meters. However, a lot of people think that’s bullshit because communism is built on lies (see Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, White Sea Baltic Canal).

If TGD fails, it will kill millions within months. The Yangtze River system hosts transportation of manufactured goods to the coastal regions, multiple nuclear power plants, multiple military installations, and roughly 1/3 of China’s domestic food supply. Millions have already been displaced and left homeless amid record downstream flooding and China has recently made record purchases of US corn as their emergency food supplies have been destroyed and exhausted.

In short, if TGD fails, it will be nuclear-level cataclysm that takes an entire generation to recover. This will further rock international markets as we rely on China for basically every manufactured product.

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Oh yeah, and I lost Weather Bucket in a windstorm. T’was a good bucket.

 

[rapala_09]

It would be unfortunate for the loss of human lives if the dam breaks. Other than that, Meh. Im still upset about the whole bat situation...…

 

[Skeeter]

RIP to the weather bucket. Your legendary contributions to NDA with never be forgotten.

 

[Mort]

Damn, you let the weather bucket ran away from home??!!!! You must have been pretty hard on it, for it to run away from you like that...shame shame on you!!!

 

[Duckslayer100]

This is unreal -- mostly because at no point in the last several months have I seen a single news story about this.

Just the fact that China is gobbling up our corn reserves because their food supplies were destroyed should at least make the local news as it impacts our farmers.

 

[JayKay]

this dam is less than one decade old. They displaced millions of people, and hundreds of villages, to build this sucker, and it was to power their country for a century.

Goes to show, the "experts" often aren't right. Especially communist experts.

I can't imagine the devastation if this dam fails. Holy Moly.

For scale, this dam is designed for a max output of 100,000 cubic meters per second. A cubic meter is over 35 cubic ft.

Garrison Dam max discharge rate is 827,000 cfs. This dam is over 4 times the size of Garrison.

It'd be bad if it failed.

 

[ndlongshot]

I hear dam removal is all the rage these days.....especially if you are a dino fish from the jurassic.

 

[1bigfokker]

It's gonna flush a lot of junk(s) into the ocean.

 

[Allen]

75,000 cubic meters per second is equivalent to over 2.6 million cubic ft per second. To put that into a little perspective, the Missouri River in Bismarck is at 26,400 cfs today, flood stage at Bismarck equals right around 72,000 cfs, and the flood of 2011 saw a max of right around 155,000 cfs.

 

[ndlongshot]

Thats 16x more water than 2011. Crazy.

Find the high ground!

 

[db-2]

Half of Iowa corn was destroy along with china buying and what has corn prices done? So much for its impact. db

 

[Traxion]

That is an incredible amount of water in an incredibly flood prone area. Sounds like the water coming now will be significantly more than I believe in 1998, a bad flood year. The weather is just incredible around the globe this year!

 

[Bed Wetter]

Half of Iowa corn was destroy along with china buying and what has corn prices done? So much for its impact. db

Just goes to show you how much we’re overproducing crops. Even cooking it for ethanol we produce way more food than the world can consume. That’s pretty unreal to think about. “Famine? What is famine?”

The issue in China is that if the dam breaks, many will starve because the river infrastructure is used to transport things inland as well. The tidal wave will wipe out the infrastructure to get the food and supplies inland.

 

[Kurtr]

Karma for burning dogs alive. Fuck them

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And I am still on my wentz prediction. His hunting show is a good watch.

 

[snow]

for you smart guyz,how does this chinese damn compare to the hoover damn?

 

[Captain Ahab]

I just want it to quit raining in Southern ND so the Red drops for fall pig fest.

 

[Allen]

for you smart guyz,how does this chinese damn compare to the hoover damn?

There are many ways to compare dams. How tall, how much fill was required, how much water does it hold back, etc.

You can compare the world's biggest dams here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_dams

 

[5575]

Incredible numbers, uffda!

 

[JayKay]

Wow! Thanks Allen!

I had no idea that Ft Peck was so tall. Garrison Dam is about 210 ft tall, Ft Peck is 250ft. Three Gorges is almost 600 ft!

Uff, yup, some big dams out there. Hoover isn't even on that list.

 

[camoman]

I just want it to quit raining in Southern ND so the Red drops for fall pig fest.

We'll take it in the central part of the state, thank you