Thank you for including the reason at post title, I've seen this news somewhere and refuses to click on links, at first I was like "its bone dry there how tf a sudden flood came out from somewhere" and then i see your post.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

After clicking some links, I confirmed that there was also a storm called Daniel and that the two dams didn't just burst by themselves, they burst because of the flood from that storm

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 0 points 1 year ago

Did the researches issue official 'told ya' already or is it still pending?

[–] Zippy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

China had a dam collapse in 1975 that resulted in an additional 67 other dams to fail. The Chinese government recently acknowledged the death toll at half a million people but knowing the government their and the poor statistics of the people living alone that watershed area, I suspect the number is well north of a million people.

Honestly I would far rather live next to a nuclear plant then downstream of a damn. In every nuclear accident, you could safely walk, not run, but walk away from danger. Chernobyl included. When a damn fails, there can be little warning and the destruction is complete.