{"id":6169,"date":"2010-09-21T19:25:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2012-04-04T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T22:07:43","slug":"6-man-made-natural-disasters-just-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/6-man-made-natural-disasters-just-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Man-Made Natural Disasters Just Waiting to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/186131.jpg\" alt=\"6 Man-Made Natural Disasters Just Waiting to Happen\" title=\"6 Man-Made Natural Disasters Just Waiting to Happen\" width=\"610\" height=\"127\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/186131.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/186131-300x62.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><br \/>\nHistory is not short of stories of man-made natural disasters, as we have detailed previously. But while it&#8217;s easy to laugh at the mistakes of the past, it&#8217;s downright scary to realize how many similar disasters are just waiting to happen, right now.<\/p>\n<p>Between lack of foresight, poor workmanship or just bad luck, the world is full of these ticking time bombs.<\/p>\n<h2>#6.The Campos Novos and Mosul Dams<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/18612.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"203\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/18612.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/18612-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><br \/>\nOne look at that thing, and you can probably guess what the problem is.<\/p>\n<p>A modern dam has two main jobs &#8211; providing electricity and keeping people from drowning. The builders of the Campos Novos dam in Brazil stopped reading after the word &#8220;electricity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18396_6-man-made-natural-disasters-just-waiting-to-happen.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Read the res of the article at Cracked.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is not short of stories of man-made natural disasters, as we have detailed previously. But while it&#8217;s easy to laugh at the mistakes of the past, it&#8217;s downright scary to realize how many similar disasters are just waiting to happen, right now. Between lack of foresight, poor workmanship or just bad luck, the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-fringe"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}