The news is under reporting the size and magnitude of the floods in China. PJmedia covered it al little but that was when it was only starting.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2021/07/20/shocking-video-shows-china-flooding-n1463229
Its a meter deep over an area the size of France but there are places where its 2 meters deep. In Zhengzhou subways flooded trapping thousands under ground in shoulder deep water. The subways were only built in 2013. In a few subway cars people are standing on the seat and its shoulder deep. In some places the subway flooded to the roof with people trapped underground.
https://youtu.be/XtVxu1QYSDY
Millions of buildings and cars have been destroyed. 53,807 acres of farmland underwater around one city alone. Millions of square feet of factory floor will be wrecked beyond repair.
One of the places affected is Wuhan and the Virology labs are only 2-3 meters above the river. 2-4 yards.
Some are saying the three gorges dam has failed. I doubt that but its sluice gates are probably all wide open. All the live feed web cameras at the dam are off. Two other dams are confirmed to have failed.
Casually numbers are suppressed but already we are seeing dozens per city in several dozen cities. Those are preliminary numbers. In most big floods the first days numbers are 1% of the final total.
The political and security effect may be drastic. China’s province’s were already bankrupt. Everything has been built on central bank debt and pension borrowings. That debt is now a write off. A large percentage of their military capacity will be tied up dealing with rescue, recovery, rebuilding and dealing with millions of displaced people. I suspect it has also lost aircraft, military vehicles and when to floods hit the port cities both military and civilian port assets will be damaged. China is very dependent on rail transport and river freight. A major flood damages both. Debry in the rivers block barges. Rail is damaged more directly.
This will either cripple China’s power for a decade or drive it to attack its foes as a distraction. It will test the communist parties grip on power. It may be China’s Chernobyl shattering the people’s trust in the state and its fear of the states threats. With all the infrastructure damage, power, water, communications, etc the surveillance state may fail.
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“Sky Has Fallen” – Chinese Farmers Reel After Floodwaters Devastate Pig Herds
1 part pork 5 parts soy is already a thing I suspect the inventor will get very rich. Some very bad numbers are coming in but nothing yet on the schools. The will have lost a few schools.
Typhoon In-Fa Hits China’s East Coast, Forcing Container Ports To Close
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On Saturday, Yangshan Port in Shanghai moved containerships and secured containers on land ahead of the storm. Yangshan Port is a deep-water port and one of the most active in China. The disruption throws another wrench in global supply chains that are already under stress.
Melinda Liu, Beijing bureau chief for Newsweek, said, “the problem with this typhoon is not only that it is wreaking economic havoc in some key parts in China but also that it comes at a very delicate time.”
“It, first of all, comes just a few days after massive flooding in central China, which has disrupted lives of a million people and killed dozens. Not just killed people but also created images that went viral on social media, some very graphic pictures of people who apparently drowned in a subway system,” she said.
“But there is also a political significance, and the point of that is probably going to play out in the coming months.”
“There is a possibility that … if the handling of the preparedness is not up to par, then the government might be blamed.”
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/07/23/xi-jinping-makes-surprise-trip-tibet-ignores-flooding-central-china/
Hope the innocent people are OK, while wishing the cleanup to bankrupt the PRC.
The Christian parable about building on a rock not on the sand is taken seriously by Christians worldwide so in many cases, if allowed, they build high. The Sri Lankan churches survived because of that in the Indian Ocean Tsunami. However some of the communist gulags and labour camps are probably on low ground. God is merciful but not too much he sends the rain on the just and the unjust alike. If he did not we, being magically immune, would become callus and would not strive to save all.
Some analysist do not think the Chinese communist party will survive this and will be gone in a matter of months.
Between this and their population age problem, one can only hope.
But they are working on their third torpedo target, er., I mean their third aircraft carrier.
Just matter of patience.
“When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.”
No singing….
China Evacuates Tens Of Thousands As Historic Rainstorms Spread North
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Storm alerts on Thursday were declared in four cities just north of Henan – Xinxiang, Anyang, Hebi, and Jiaozuo.
More than 73,000 people were being evacuated from the city of Anyang, on Henan’s border with Hebei province. The city has received 24 inches of rain since Monday.
Xinxiang, a small city north of Zhengzhou, recorded 32 inches of rainfall between Tuesday and Thursday, breaking local meteorological records. This caused medium-sized reservoirs to overflow, affecting nearby towns.
As of Wednesday night, 470,000 people and over 55,000 hectares have been affected by torrential historic rains. The government has deployed 76,000 search and rescuers.
Three dams also collapsed, two in China’s northwestern region of Inner Mongolia and one near Zhengzhou.
Like much of China, Henan province is filled with complex rivers, dams, and reservoirs, many constructed decades ago to manage floodwaters. Officials in the province are increasing safety checks at dams.
Another batch of rainstorms could be headed to Henan early next week as Typhoon In-Fa hones in on China’s southeastern coastline this weekend.
Floods coming down river into a Typhoon storm surge coming up river is the worst case scenario possible.
Devastating floods in China. Elsewhere——-drought.
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They just blew up a major dam/ weir on one of the rivers because it was blocking enough water to drown the city either side. This process of diverting the flood down stream means the damage down river will hit harder and faster. Hopefully they are not restricting communication so much that cities down stream do not know the magnitude of the danger. Historically towns and cities were built on slight rises, some of them artificial, so floods have less effect but in the city building boom of the past decade that have expanded out and up. Flimsy looking multistory buildings on questionable foundations. People will head up stairs to flee the flood but if the flood water undermines the foundations those buildings will fall. They have also built tunnels and in many cases the entry points appear to have no flood control barriers. Large flows though drains and subways can erode away walls widening to undermine building foundations and creating large sink holes.
https://youtu.be/zt27XvZSdNE
Most fiction I have read lists issues with the Three Gorges Dam as a cause of the CCP’s collapse. That is fiction, but it does make you wonder how many humiliating catastrophes their arrogance can inflict on their population before the “Mandate of Heaven” is broadly considered revoked. Perhaps our enemy shall bleed to death before we do.
Heartbreaking vids!!!!
Dozens Killed After China’s Henan Hit With Worst Rainstorms In 1,000 Years
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We noted Tuesday night, yet, another dam, this time in Zhengzhou, collapsed, the third in 48 hours, after rising water levels spilled over the dam’s crest and weakened the structure, resulting in a structural failure.
The dam is the third to fail in recent days: over the weekend, two dams in Hulun Buir City in North China’s Inner Mongolia collapsed due to severe rain.
From Saturday to Tuesday, 26.5 inches of rain fell on Zhengzhou, surpassing the annual average of around 24 inches. Just on Tuesday, 8.2 inches fell in a single hour.
https://youtu.be/Np-7jLWBY3U