> that's thousands of years of stored water and energy released
You make this sound like it matters whether the water accumulated over 10,000 years or 30 days. It doesn't.
You make this sound like it matters whether the water accumulated over 10,000 years or 30 days. It doesn't.
Said with tongue firmly planted in cheek:
"The Himalayas are the highest, youngest, and most unstable mountain system on Earth. Let's terraform these bastards to extract energy and incentivise people to live there. They can build these giant, terribly unsafe, concrete buildings right on the bank of a river fed by a an unstable glacier. Let's also have one way in and one way out! The mountains are too steep for meaningful egress upward, so rock crawl your way out there for the bi-seasonal melt floods!!!!"
Such a simplistic reduction also does serious disservice to the structural geologists, soil analyst techs, and others in the geological profession whose work focuses on preventing exactly this sort of situation. It's more complex than "Volume and speed."
and nothing of what you listed is "how long this particular water volume stayed in its particular location before starting to move" (because energy is energy)
don't lose context of what is complained about, dude.