It’s Probably Nothing

At the Three Gorges Dam, a multifunctional facility on the Yangtze River that includes flood prevention, upstream flooding is expected to cause a swell of water reaching 55,000 cubic meters per second at 8 p.m. local time on Friday, higher than the warning level of 50,000 cubic meters, according to the Changjiang Water Resources Commission.

More from China watcher, Michael Yon.

26 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Make haste, O Water Dragon. A feast beyond compare is laid out before you.

    The Han tribe’s fingers are dripping with the blood of those who fear the God of Israel, Who made them and made you. The hour is late to make them repay their debt manifold, in their own torn flesh and spilt blood.

    You are a kind beast. They will be lucky whom you kill by swallowing in one gulp, compared to those who died in agony in a faraway nursing home from a man-made plague, gasping for air.

    Dine well, and thank the God the Han defy and persecute for His bounty.

  2. I follow Asian events now, more closely than I do those in the west … I rely on Kate and Co to keep me square about home.
    The story we are watching unfold now in the west is 1917, all over again: contagion, war, anarchy, revolution …. our universities have grown our anarchists, we haven’t imported them, aka Lenin, Finland Station.
    The failure of the Three Gorges Dam will be a catastrophe that no Christian should ever wish to see …. but …. if it goes it washes the egos and dreams of the nation’s MALE communist elite out to sea with the rubbish.
    It is time for Chinese women to take over … **
    ** I don’t think for a minute they will be easier to deal with, haha

  3. Russian 50’s gravity design dam..
    I wonder if they’re futures in Wuhan surfboards

  4. Perhaps the proselytizing of the globull warming crowd has a benefit after all. In all of the equations and forecasts espoused by the Green crowd I’ve never seen a study that takes into account the billions of gallons of water that we have been artificially injecting into the atmosphere through irrigation. If someone would under take a study of what America uses for irrigation and then quadruples that number, then perhaps we could get an idea of what China uses for irrigation and then extrapolate that number using the simplest of Newton’s principals, “What goes up, must come down!” Which is a perfect segue into this,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09g3gZ7XAs

    Enjoy.

  5. It will be interesting to see, as for so many catastrophes around the globe, who musters donations, monetary and physical for the CCP in the event of a failure of the Three Gorges Dam. Fund Me Page, anyone?

  6. The story used the same “141 dead or missing” Chinese Communist Party approved statistic that we have heard faithfully reported by all the news media reporting from Communist China for the past two weeks. It is absolutely miraculous that no one else has died or gone missing in these last two weeks of rains and flooding. Not one additional person!

    Absolutely miraculous!

  7. Just tell me the two Bio Labs in Wuhan are on very high ground away from the river.

  8. my heart goes out to all of the people in China just as it did to the Japanese victims of the Tsumami’s…flooding is so completely catastrophic and devastating. the evil of the CCP government knows no bounds

  9. Global / CTV carried a brief story on 18 July with the 141 dead figure. I cant find any news story from CBC.

  10. Much as I detest the Chicom, my heart breaks for these poor people. I lived through the great Manitoba flood of 1997 but this makes that event look like a puddle over a drain.

    “XiJinping’s lust for power has cost him the “Mandate of Heaven”, the goddess of the yellow river has unleashed her furry onto the heartland of the Hans.”

    Does seem somewhat prophetic.

    Zechariah 1:15
    “But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster.”

    1. Sorry JB, I can’t help myself. What is the “furry” thing on the Goddess of the Yellow river? Carnal visions notwithstanding, but I think you mean Fury! Amazing how typing too fast can create strange and sometimes amusing differences. 🙂

  11. ” You need to pay attention to this. If this fails, you WILL be affected.”
    Rubbish. Some Canadian agri and education operations will be looking for taxpayer handouts, what’s new. Another hysteric who thinks China is “indispensable”. So you pay more for shirts and wait until Apple moves its drowned factories to India. I’m shattered.

  12. I never ridicule or mock victims of natural disasters. My mother’s sisters were victims of the Winnipeg flood in 1950. Justin Burch mentions the flood of 1997. There’s a place in Winnipeg on James Avenue where they measure the peak levels of the Red River. In 1997, the peak was 24.5 feet. In 1950, the Red rose to 30.3 feet. What saved a lot of people were WWII surplus amphibious vehicles that took them to safety.

    In the 1960’s, they built the Winnipeg Floodway. My uncle was a foreman on what was then, in terms of cubic yards of earth moved, ”the second largest earth moving project in the world after the Panama Canal.” Thanks to Conservative Premier Duff Roblin, and the the efficiency that government. You had to be there to witness the music of 100s of Eulcid scrapers that were powered by Detroit Diesel engines, slicing through the black Manitoba clay, and belching smoke through their straight gut exhausts.
    https://youtu.be/Z1aEH3YEedg

  13. So this guy insists if the dam fails I WILL be affected.

    NO, I WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.

    Not being able to buy cheap garbage from Home Depot or Walmart is hardly an inconvenience.

    1. Not even that. You’ll just buy cheap garbage made elsewhere. Chinese garbage is neither cheaper nor better. Chicoms are just better at bribes and influencing foreign governments, that is all.

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