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Here are some quick updates concerning #3GD & #ChinaFlood situation based on all the news I came across in the past 2 days .....
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-- Chongqing city (upstream #3GD) just made it illegal for anyone to post any flooding related material online.
Here are some quick updates concerning #3GD & #ChinaFlood situation based on all the news I came across in the past 2 days .....
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-- Chongqing city (upstream #3GD) just made it illegal for anyone to post any flooding related material online.
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-- CCP warned, heavy rain will last till at least mid July; according to statistics, the worst flood will be seen in July, not June.
-- according to weather forecast, heavy rain may take a pause temporally this weekend, before resuming.
-- CCP warned, heavy rain will last till at least mid July; according to statistics, the worst flood will be seen in July, not June.
-- according to weather forecast, heavy rain may take a pause temporally this weekend, before resuming.
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-- water level at Wuhan has exceeded danger level, and begin to seep into city edge.
-- almost 1000 reservoirs (excluding the big #3GD one) in Hubei & Anhui Provinces are overflowing, so all mini dams floodgates have been fully opened to release...
-- water level at Wuhan has exceeded danger level, and begin to seep into city edge.
-- almost 1000 reservoirs (excluding the big #3GD one) in Hubei & Anhui Provinces are overflowing, so all mini dams floodgates have been fully opened to release...
4/ ...water. As all those water are finding their way into Yangzhe through many branch rivers, close to 200 of those branch rivers are overly flooded.
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-- #3GD tells public they haven& #39;t opened wide bypass gates yet, trying to calm downstream public (It seems to me, I speculate, #3GD wants to try their luck, hope to "wait it out", trying not to cause downstream flooding).
-- #3GD tells public they haven& #39;t opened wide bypass gates yet, trying to calm downstream public (It seems to me, I speculate, #3GD wants to try their luck, hope to "wait it out", trying not to cause downstream flooding).
6/ BUT, #3GD does report, they fired up ALL of their power generator turbines, which is earlier than past years (to me, this means, #3GD tries to sneakily let as much water out as possible without opening up wide the bypass gate).
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-- a personal report: my dad made a contact with his relatives in Wuhan yesterday, trying to see how were they doing, and if they prepared rescue packs just for in case. Their response was SHOCKING: They had absolutely NO idea that crazy flooding has been going on all ...
-- a personal report: my dad made a contact with his relatives in Wuhan yesterday, trying to see how were they doing, and if they prepared rescue packs just for in case. Their response was SHOCKING: They had absolutely NO idea that crazy flooding has been going on all ...
8/ ...around them (except Wuhan); local news didn& #39;t mention 1 bit; they couldn& #39;t see flooding related news in QQ (China& #39;s social media). My dad& #39;s phone call to them was the 1st time they find out.
-- last but not least, please check out...
-- last but not least, please check out...
9/ ...this 3-min video; please listen carefully to the part what Dr. Wang Weiluo (王維洛) said; it& #39;s a condensed version of what he explained in a 45-min Chinese interview 4 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPES5q_bNTw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
