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[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yikes!

I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isn’t instilling confidence.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.

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