SLD
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http://www.whchronicle.com/?p=2399
OK, so I read the above article and it is about two dams, the famous one in Mosul recently captured by ISIS and apparently recaptured by loyal soldiers the last day or so, and the other in Mozambique. According to this article both are set to fail, the first by sabotage from ISIS, and the second due to poor maintenance over the years.
But the next part stuns me. According to this article, the failure of the Mosul Dam would cause 500,000 casualties in Iraq, and the failure of the Mozambique Dam, would cause 2.5 million deaths. Those seem grossly high for a dam failure. Granted either one is not a pretty scenario, but how in the world do you come up with this kind of casualty figure. I'm skeptical that would really happen. I know that there,s been some pretty bad dam failures in the past. In Johnstown in the US there was one that killed about 2000 people. But 500,000 or even 2.5 Million? I'm skeptical.
Thoughts?
OK, so I read the above article and it is about two dams, the famous one in Mosul recently captured by ISIS and apparently recaptured by loyal soldiers the last day or so, and the other in Mozambique. According to this article both are set to fail, the first by sabotage from ISIS, and the second due to poor maintenance over the years.
But the next part stuns me. According to this article, the failure of the Mosul Dam would cause 500,000 casualties in Iraq, and the failure of the Mozambique Dam, would cause 2.5 million deaths. Those seem grossly high for a dam failure. Granted either one is not a pretty scenario, but how in the world do you come up with this kind of casualty figure. I'm skeptical that would really happen. I know that there,s been some pretty bad dam failures in the past. In Johnstown in the US there was one that killed about 2000 people. But 500,000 or even 2.5 Million? I'm skeptical.
Thoughts?