At least they had a plan I guess
At least they had a plan I guess
If its not a football article from Vince Rugari, I donāt believe a single thing that is posted on that site. It really needs to start being talked about with the same derision as News Limited.
We didnāt exactly divert floods onto towns and kill people, purely to save office buildingsā¦
Iām pretty sure 90% of the international stuff is sourced from other news sites. They definitely have a partnership with the BBC website
They literally did not do this either. They created a heap of temporary detention basins to temporarily store stormwater and relieve pressure downstream. The way its being reported is unbelievably disingenuous, unsurprisingly.
They released floodwaters into areas that were already inundated and saturated causing the deaths of many, as well as potentially affecting future food supply purely to protect Beijing.
How does one divert floodwaters?
Iām guessing it takes more than just a bunch of sandbags? Iām no civil engineer, but wouldnāt you need to essentially create a new river channel, and wouldnāt that take forever?
They dont divert floodwaters. They use detention basins as temporary storage ātanksā to hold large quantities of stormwater water to reduce the load downstream. Ive designed stormwater detention basins on basically every large commercial and industrial development ive worked on throughout Sydney.
If you look up Zhouzhou on google maps, Its literally on a massive fucking river system upstream from Beijing. This is apparently where the some of the detention basins were located, these were activated because this is what they were literally designed to do. Apparently some official made some dumb and insensitive comment about these areas acting as a āmoatā which rightly pissed off a bunch of people that have just lost everything and the media is framing it as if they magically diverted floodwaters to intentionally wipe out these communities.
So laymens terms the city is already in a ābasinā area, or they basically dig these basins (which Iām guessing are like reservoirs) and the people in the surrounding areas are cannon fodder for flooding?
Wouldnāt they already know theyāre in a detention basin (If Iām understanding this correctly?) I mean Iām guessing itās not the first time the areas had significant rain. And I know the CCP wouldnāt exactly advertise that the citizens are in one, but surely thereād be obvious signs.
So, if this link works ā¦
This is a storm water basin near Sydneham station. When there is a shit ton of rain, this captures the rain. Up to itās capacity. And allows the drainage system to cope with it. Itās an empty space, designed to absorb rain beyond the regular capacity of the storm water drainage system.
Iāve seen this going past on the train. Never knew what it was really.
So basically these were built in these areas in China, and then those basins have flooded, now causing the destruction?
Something like that.
So apparently a large amount of people had no clue they were living in a flood protection zone and it was very much set up with very little warning and hit the poor rural people in China who generally are seen as unimportant. The area in question has been built up by Beijing as a future agri/industrial hub to continuously feed Beijing.
An ex-Chinese engineer suggested that they could have directed the water to an area in the south, however itās filled with golf courses that are used by the Communist party elite. They also opened up those dams into an area that had experienced some massive rain and was already saturated and flooding, whereas Beijing was under pressure, but still managing to sort of cope.
Simply the flood was too large for the retention basins to hold all the water, so the excess flooded.
They would work in many normal floods however, we are entering a new climate era.
Welcome to the future.
So basically itās what happens in Richmond and around there every time we have more than a days worth of rain in Sydney.
Flood mitigation is the last area in which I would want to have a role.
No matter what you do you will be blamed by the media and politicians for getting it wrong no matter how good your work is, when nature overpowers your defences.
Like the recent floods in Qld when the engineers in charge of the dam, which was to provide drinking water as well as flood mitigation, were blamed by media and pollies possessing wonderful hindsight, but zero understanding, looking for someone to blame.
What happens in Richmond is dumb cunts permitted urban development on a flood plain.
So a right wing media organisation is blaming flooding on the Chinese Communist Party and not climate changeā¦hmmmm.
ABC posted a similar articleā¦
Same. I assumed it was some sort of reservoir obviously, but my guess was for some industrial purpose (e.g. one of the surrounding factories that needed vast quantities of water as part of their manufacturing process).
TIL itās a storm water catchment.