Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp...
by lazide on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:00AM
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but Canada has helicopters, a functional military, and Allies no?
Certainly folks could be evacuated or supplied with essentials if it came to that. They did so as far away as Afghanistan.
It would require some adjustment and dealing with adversity, but your comment makes it sound like everyone would starve to death and be found having eaten each other or something if the roads were out for a week.
Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp...
by jessaustin on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:39PM
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In that event, would the town itself not have been threatened with flooding?
It was scary for a week because they were down to a single remaining point of failure (Abbotsford pumping station). If that station failed (which was quite possible, due to rising floodwaters), the Fraser river would have flooded the valley, and Highway 1 would have been... Gone. Not 'flooded for a week', but 'flooded permanently'.
On the other side of the city, mudslides destroyed bridges on the Coquihalla highway - which will take at least 2 months to be made passable - and things won't be back to normal for another year.
Had the pumping station failed, and the highway flooded, it's entirely unclear what anyone could have done in that situation to keep Chilliwack supplied over the next two months.