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minus-squareDandroid@dandroid.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year 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-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoYikes! I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).
minus-squareCheez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoMemorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-squareexplodicle@local106.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s the Onion, a joke news site.
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minus-squareDandroid@dandroid.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-squareHolzkohlen@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAt least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.
minus-squareHaphazardFinesse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 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.
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.
Mentone?
Nope, not that one.
Yikes!
I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).
Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
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.
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.
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.
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.