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minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilinkEnglish18•2 years agoMy first thought was why would you put a town at the bottom of a dam like that? And then I remembered that I grew up in a small town under a dam. That dam was on a fault line.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoYikes! I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).
minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoPeople always said that the dam could support double the most severe earthquake that the fault could produce, but who knows how true that is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoExactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isn’t instilling confidence.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoMemorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
minus-square@[email protected]BlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI know lives are at stake, but this entire thing reads like something from a mockumentary. I really hope the city management and the citizens act before it is too late. Is moving out the only option? P.S. I wonder what the real estate rates are at that place.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoYikes. I did not notice that. It did not help that the piped link directly opened the video in full screen. Thanks for bringing my attention to the fact. :-)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoAt least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years ago'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.
My first thought was why would you put a town at the bottom of a dam like that? And then I remembered that I grew up in a small town under a dam. That dam was on a fault line.
Yikes!
I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).
People always said that the dam could support double the most severe earthquake that the fault could produce, but who knows how true that is.
Exactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isn’t instilling confidence.
Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I know lives are at stake, but this entire thing reads like something from a mockumentary.
I really hope the city management and the citizens act before it is too late. Is moving out the only option?
P.S. I wonder what the real estate rates are at that place.
It’s the Onion, a joke news site.
Yikes. I did not notice that. It did not help that the piped link directly opened the video in full screen.
Thanks for bringing my attention to the fact. :-)
Mentone?
Nope, not that one.
At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.
'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.