• Dandroid
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      181 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            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.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                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. :-)

        • Dandroid
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          51 year ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Exactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isn’t instilling confidence.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.