• 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.