A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in a few hours from Hurricane Helene.

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?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.