The biggest dam in the Indian state of Sikkim, generating 1,200 MW of power (roughly the same as the Hoover dam) was washed away in 10 minutes after flash flood (www.hindustantimes.com)

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Immediately, our team went to the dam to open the gates. Before they could open, the flash flood hit them, and they ran away to save their lives

I'm surprised they had to send a team to open the gates, I'd have thought this could be done remotely.

[-] flug@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

And, why did they not have some kind of early warning system set up to give them more notice of the breaching of the Lhokan Lake moraine? The moraine was known to be in imminent danger of breaching.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X21001914

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