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.
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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.
At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.
'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.
Mentone?
Nope, not that one.
Yikes!
I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).
Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
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.
It’s the Onion, a joke news site.
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. :-)
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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.