"Right on time!"
No, this photo is not a WELS metaphor, though that would work too.
China seemed so powerful and wealthy until their subsidies from the US began slowing down and the rain began speeding up.
Everyone seems to be catching onto the criminal regime that runs the People's Republic of China.
One reader appreciated the coverage of the Three Gorges Dam on the verge of collapsing. Since the fifth flood event passing through, nothing has appeared in the press - except one report.
Here is the link I thought I lost.
Call it my imagination, but I think silence about the world's biggest engineering debacle is more unsettling than daily coverage. "The crisis is over" would best be proved by live video, current photographs, and daily news, even if they are only PR smoochy stories about the great dam.
A few people think the dam has a fatal flaw, a place deep in the structure causing cavitation from water and debris passing through. As you may recall from my earlier posts, the dam was poorly designed and badly built with inferior concrete, inferior rebar, and one little detail. They were in a rush to get started, so they did not go down to bedrock and pin the entire structure to a solid base. No problem? Please consult your Physics 101 textbook about water pressure 600 feet deep.
- They pollute their own construction concrete with clay and manure. Buildings routinely crumble, and they are called tofu structures.
- They could not make that enormous dam accomplish everything at once, so the structure turned into a white elephant - trying to provide transportation, flood control, water, etc.
- Just like WELS, critics of the blunders were jailed, so the greedy could live high on the proceeds.
Mud turbulence on the surface of the dam lake suggests that something is very wrong in the depths. Worse, bubbles rising up seem to indicate that the water is acting like a soda, releasing trapped air. That could mean damage letting water through. High pressure water, sand, mud, and debris roaring through would enlarge that opening.
There are some signs they are trying to strengthen the dam.
