Date: 2020-08-07 05:24 pm (UTC)
beamjockey: Blinking 12 timer & dynamite designed by Michael Krumpus (Blinking12)
From: [personal profile] beamjockey
1. Is there an obvious place to build a dam of not-unreasonable dimensions?

2. Does there exist an RPG about dam-building?

Date: 2020-08-07 06:01 pm (UTC)
rezendi: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rezendi
Unfortunately dams in areas prone to massive earthquakes are problematic.

Date: 2020-08-07 07:04 pm (UTC)
beamjockey: Blinking 12 timer & dynamite designed by Michael Krumpus (Blinking12)
From: [personal profile] beamjockey
As you can already tell, I know dam-all about this subject.

Date: 2020-08-07 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] theresawright
As is built land, but that doesn't stop people from trying. I could see people trying a combination of dams and raised earthworks to save valuable communities or farmland from rising waters. How well it would work depends on your faith in the US Army Corps of Engineers, but catastrophic failure could make for an interesting disaster novel.

Date: 2020-08-08 04:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chrysostom
Salton Sea but much bigger.

Date: 2020-08-08 11:03 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Buried somewhere in my book collection is a novel called The Wave, in which a landslip into a Canadian dam's reservoir raises a 600ft wave that destroys the dam and heads downstream. Oh, and of course there's a nuclear power plant in its path, just in case the wave wasn't going to do enough damage on its own.

Paul Clarke

Date: 2020-08-08 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] felila
Unless they are natural dams! Built by beavers. Small dams all the way down the streams flowing into the big rivers. Trap silt, fill up, beavers move, build dam ...

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