And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The original dam was built in the 1930's - the one under construction just downstream is a replacement, as the original needed refurbishment (they decided on a new dam instead).
Cold, the color is cold.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the term nipply over cold.
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Thank you Mr. Griswold.
DeleteThe Spitallamm dam on Lake Grimsel
ReplyDeleteblurb says proudly made with Swiss Cement. Bet the five gorges dam wish they could say that.
TIL dams can talk
DeleteIn the North, we call that color November.
ReplyDeleteI call that color: ICE
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ReplyDeletelooks like it to me too, valuable stuff to the down stream environment.
DeleteBoulder Dam style dam, looks very sturdy, from the pic it looks it has great head height.
ReplyDeleteLotta water stacked up behind that dam, for it to be unfinished.
ReplyDeleteThe original dam was built in the 1930's - the one under construction just downstream is a replacement, as the original needed refurbishment (they decided on a new dam instead).
DeleteThe story: https://www.theb1m.com/video/spitallamm-dam
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