this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This meme template is gold. I haven't seen it before.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] HaphazardFinesse 9 points 1 year ago

'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yikes!

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] vaultdweller013 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, not that one.