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On the one hand, I don't want anyone to die or get hurt or even have their lives disrupted. On the other, I want to see 12 cubic miles of water shoot off a mountain and bring forth a photogenic wave of destruction. Maybe the dam can fail, then Superman can fly around the earth backward to fix it and we get to enjoy both...
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:kind of lazy and irresponsible for media to report this as a dam failure when it is spillway I think the spillway going and releasing the top thirty feet of the reservoir counts as a dam failure in general conversation.
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Feb 13, 2017 04:21
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Platystemon posted:If the spillway fails, thousands of homes are flooded. Depending on how the spillway collapses, homes aren't going to be flooded. They're going to be flattened.
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Just to give a sense of scale: In 1889, the South Fork Dam failed releasing 50 million tons of water and utterly destroying the city of Johnstown, PA. If this spillway goes, it's releasing about 50 billion tons of water. It might only be the top thirty feet but the reservoir is huge. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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Feb 13, 2017 04:35
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EugeneJ posted:Places named Jonestown don't have a good history with liquid, do they Flavor-aide made me typo.
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Feb 13, 2017 04:41
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Psycho Society posted:imo the best plan right now is to fix the main spillway while water ingress is low with an rear end-ton of concrete. Turn that poo poo up to 11 to protect the top 30 feet of the emergency letoff from crumbling and smashing the town. I don't know if they've got enough time for that. They essentially have two days to do this, in pretty bad ground conditions. I don't even know if the concrete they'd need would set in that time frame, let alone be solid enough to hold together (IANA civil engineer). There's a real issue of these spillways being undermined and that hasn't gone away even though the water isn't going over them in massive quantities anymore. They've gone from "It could go at any minute!" last night to "It could go really soon!" today. It'll probably be months before the spillways are actually safe again, though if they don't get hit by more rain after the next set of storms coming through then I'd expect them to be able to keep the level low enough until it's fixed that a failure won't be an immediate problem.
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Feb 13, 2017 16:59
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Toadvine posted:Curse this puny lifespan. I seriously hope I die with unfinished business so I can continue witnessing Earth as a 21st Century Ghost Perhaps the singularity will arrive and your glorious cyberspace form can laugh at the suffering of meatspace. Until the dam that supplies power for your system collapses, of course.
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twit666 posted:When can we start looting? Last night according to the news. Sorry, they've already gotten all the Long John Silvers. You snooze, you lose.
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