How these dams made Libya's flood so deadly #shorts

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[Mezelenja]

Always the people that suffer from the powerful’s negligence.

[BigBoss]

It’s catastrophic, a truly terrible man made disaster.
Mid night, a wave 20 meters high, full of rocks and debris from broken buildings, crashing a city, dumping everything in its path into the sea.
You can’t defend against such disaster, far worse than earthquakes.
People ask me ( a structural engineer) how could this happen, and how to protect against such disasters, all I could say is fix the dams or run.
People reunited to the city from all across the Libya, and our neighboring countries ( Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, rescue teams from kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Italy, Spain and Turkey) it’s a sense of unity for people, for humanity.

[kittytime-]

Gaddafi should have never been deposed.

[plaguedoctork]

It's literally called "The dam of death"💀

[thepatriot]

My heart goes to all morrocons, Libyans, and turks and syrians and Palestinians
This year's have been a tough one for ME but may allah guide us ❤

[thetwotimesone]

"...ignored during the civil war" started by who?!😢

[geekdiggy]

how many disasters so far this year (nevermind throughout the past few decades) are the result experts telling those in charge to do something and then it not getting done?

[Alejandra-cvrj]

You forgot to add that the dam was weakened by the earthquake two days before the storm hit

[thedetermined]

🫡
Hearts out to Libya.
(Yes, I know this does nothing, saying it does nothing doesn't do anything either.)

[omg.mesohungry]

This wouldn’t have happened had Gaddafi not been overthrown by them.

[Jaromeo]

Why can't politicians listen to experts?? It's not hard🤦‍♂️😡🤦‍♂️

[lemonboiyoutube]

the inoocents didn't deserve this. This could've been easily prevented, if not for civil wars rooted in imperialism.

[KjV]

I've heard nothing about this on the news. FWIW my heart goes out to the people of Libya.

[SnoW-pkzo]

We have one really big one in colombia

[terralynnpash]

Wow that’s really sad! It was so beautiful.

[BebbaDubbs]

I was just learning about how dangerous these are in the middle east because of the ages too

[Mr.x]

Time gadaffi everthing ok...same time saddam hussin...but colonial always stole arab happines

[premierexterior]

"One fourth"? Never heard that before.

[lovenloyalty]

Do they have an oil supply or their own banking system?

[-i]

this is such an awful tragedy, but I can’t get my mind off the fact that the storm name was Daniel. The storm in the middle of the Mediterranean was called Daniel. Why?!