Vajont’s message for the Three Gorges
As the sun went down on the evening of October 9, 1963, Longarone was a sleepy, traditional market town located in the Dolomite region of northern Italy. The next morning, the first rays of the sun illuminated a different sight – the town had been almost completely washed away, leaving a barren wasteland of boulders. The remains of just a few of the town`s buildings poked through, and buried in the sediment or washed tens of kilometres down the river were the bodies of 2,500 of the town`s inhabitants. The town had suffered the impact of Europe`s worst dam disaster; the flood had come from a new dam located in a valley above it.
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