They built a dam for no other reason than to block the river so they could build a city in the river bed.
That's 1000iq city planning
Weeellll tek-nik-uh-lee they might have built a town along the banks of a small river, dammed the valley blocking the river, and then filled in the old riverbed. But either way yeah those guys are dumb for staying there.
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.
'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.
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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.
Yikes. I did not notice that. It did not help that the piped link directly opened the video in full screen.
Thanks for bringing my attention to the fact. :-)
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.
Exactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isnβt instilling confidence.
At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.