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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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[–] flug@midwest.social 5 points 2 years 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