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To protect Beijing, several less densely populated surrounding areas were deliberately flooded during the historic early August rainstorm.
State media reported on Friday that rescue crews are still searching for 16 people missing in the storm that has brought on the most severe rainfall since records began 140 years ago.
Official news agency Xinhua reported the province’s reconstruction is expected to take two years to complete. Initial estimates showed its direct economic losses amounted to $13.2bn (95.8 billion yuan), state media China News Service said.
Preliminary estimates announced showed 3.9 million residents, or about 5 percent of the province’s population, were affected by the floods and more than 40,000 houses collapsed, it said.
A further 155,500 houses and facilities that provided electricity and communications were seriously damaged. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops were ruined in the province.
originally posted by: putnam6
Respectfully if they can pinpoint and cause that amount of destruction, to do what? mke. few extra bucks on the futures markets? or is it something more sinister?
Make no sense, unless its some kind of hidden agenda BS,
originally posted by: The GUT
I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that our Cold War includes weather warfare with both sides playing climate chess.
So people are forced to move out of urban/country areas into the same densly populated nightmare cities. Easier to control : 15 minutes cities
originally posted by: putnam6
I find it hard to believe less than 50 people were killed.
As for weather wars, what's the purpose of an entity or nation zapping China and causing floods, when they have had massive floods throughout their history? Before the Three Gorges Dam was completed there were theories it would increase flooding.
Respectfully if they can pinpoint and cause that amount of destruction, to do what? mke. few extra bucks on the futures markets? or is it something more sinister?
Make no sense, unless its some kind of hidden agenda BS,
originally posted by: 1947boomer
originally posted by: The GUT
I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that our Cold War includes weather warfare with both sides playing climate chess.
So you don't think that increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over the last 100 years or so has anything to do with it?
originally posted by: The GUT
I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that our Cold War includes weather warfare with both sides playing climate chess.
The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was, for several decades, the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, until surpassed by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988,[1] the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of 1-minute sustained winds, until surpassed by Hurricane Allen in 1980, and the strongest at landfall by 1-minute sustained winds, until it was tied by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. The fourth tropical cyclone, third tropical storm, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, it is one of four Category 5 hurricanes on record to strike the contiguous United States, along with Hurricane Camille (1969), Hurricane Andrew (1992), and Hurricane Michael (2018).
originally posted by: The GUT
originally posted by: putnam6
Respectfully if they can pinpoint and cause that amount of destruction, to do what? mke. few extra bucks on the futures markets? or is it something more sinister?
Make no sense, unless its some kind of hidden agenda BS,
Not saying it's the case here but I'm not saying it's not either.
However, if you're the M.I.C. there's every reason to develop, test, and use it. Especially considering the science is there and therefore achievable.
Teller & others considered it the ultimate weapon and a top priority after the Manhattan Project and it's pretty conclusive that weather manipulation became the new Manhattan Project.
Can you really not see the vast potentialities of weather as a weapon?
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1963?
Five rivers flow into the Hai river basin, the largest natural drainage system in northern China. The basin includes Beijing, Hebei province and the big port city of Tianjin.
In August 1963, the area was drenched by historic rainstorms, with 22 million people affected by flooding that killed 5,030 people and forced millions from their homes. More than 53.6 million acres of farmland, or 76% of the sown area, was inundated.
In response, Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China, ordered that millions work to bring the Hai river basin under "permanent control", raising thousands of kilometres of embankments and building new reservoirs and reinforcing old ones.
CURSE OF URBANISATION
Since then, China's urban population has soared, from just 16% of the population to 64% in 2022. The Hai basin is now home to 25 large and medium-sized cities.
Rapid urbanisation has meant the spread of impermeable concrete surfaces and reduced natural wetlands and marshes that had in the past absorbed rain.
Urban migration has brought a construction boom in low-lying areas, including in flood storage areas and near lakes and rivers.
China's Soviet-era urban drainage systems of shallow buried pipes leaves cities vulnerable to waterlogging during heavy rain, in contrast with cavernous underground storm "corridors" in cities such as Tokyo.
Since 2015, some 30 Chinese cities including Beijing and Tianjin have tested various flood mitigation systems, including permeable asphalt and pavements to slow water run-off but severe floods have raised doubts about their effectiveness