Excerpt:
"“The machines for [cementing the porous gypsum layer the dam rests upon] have been looted [by ISIS]. There is no cement supply. [The remaining workers] can do nothing. It is going from bad to worse, and it is urgent. All we can do is hold our hearts.”
At the same time as the bedrock is getting weaker and more porous, the water pressure on the dam is building as spring meltwater flows into the reservoir behind it. Giant gates that would normally be used to ease the pressure by allowing water to run through are stuck.
...“If the dam fails, the water will arrive in Mosul in four hours. It will arrive in Baghdad in 45 hours. Some people say there could be half a million people killed, some say a million. I imagine it will be more in the absence of a good evacuation plan.”"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engineers-warn-it-could-fail-at-any-time-killing-1m-people
14 comments:
Perhaps a catastrophe will prompt the creation of refugee safe zone funded by Gulf States.
Allah is angry.
Chick, how much is Trump paying you to say that :)
Deborah: The Trump money I get is far better than the Koch money I used to get. :)
Just kidding!
I told 'em to build it with Legos!
Either way, you're golden; the Kochs aren't going to fight against Trump. Hmmmm.
Who gets the blame for this? Bush? Obama? ISIS? Crappy Muslim engineers?
And will all the water make the Green Zone in Baghdad even greener?
Well, another Barry-Hillary foreign policy success.
Green with algae!
You know when it goes they'll come begging to the US for money and repairs.
And they'll get it. Ironically out of Christian guilt.
Hope their underground nuke project gets inundated.
If and when the dam bursts, and there is water everywhere, it would be a good time for those people to be baptized.
Clock boy must've taken up dam building. SURFS UP!
Wow, up to a million dead muslims. Sign me up.
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