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2004-09-09 China-Japan-Koreas

Once a Century' Floods Kill 172 in China

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-09 12:34:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Very safe" => start packing.
"Safe" => start running
"Safe for now" => start speeding
"No immediate danger" => hijack the next available plane

Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-09 4:09:52 AM|| 2004-09-09 4:09:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Designed to handle twice the peak water flows" => Find an Ark quick.

Posted by Charles 2004-09-09 7:02:36 AM|| 2004-09-09 7:02:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it just me, or do these "hundred-year floods" seem to come every twenty-five to thirty years? There was a big flood in the mid-Seventies in that section of China that blew out every dam in the region. It was the recent history cited by critics of the Three Gorges as to why megadams are of dubious wisdom in that area.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-09-09 8:42:44 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-09-09 8:42:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Millions of Chinese Give the Three Gorges Dam the Finger!

A crack Dutch dike team is heading to China to train the multitudes on the "index finger" technique of dam reinforcement.

Posted by RN 2004-09-09 8:48:51 AM|| 2004-09-09 8:48:51 AM|| Front Page Top

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