Billions of gallons of water could have been released, power to Baghdad would have been cut off, towns and villages over hundreds of square miles flooded and the country would have been paralysed.
But Mr Qaddafi's forces have surrounded the towns and cut off the road links to Tripoli.Any attempt by the rebels to move their own forces along the coast road to Tripoli from Benghazi, which is 1,000km (621 miles) long, will be vulnerable to air attack.
Cutting off the town, the blizzard may stand for the isolation from any universal truth or value; one that history seemingly requires by history while it conducts its contorted affairs.
Some 52 towns and villages are still cut off.
The southern town of Deraa, where the protests began, remains under siege, with telephone communications and transport cut off.
1967 - The six-day war Israeli forces hit back - and cut off Gaza town "Fighting broke out today on all Israel's borders with its Arab neighbours.
They have captured a treasure-trove of weapons and about 20 prisoners, who will be "re-educated" and turned into MLC fighters.The rebels can now move on to the junction of the Ubangi and Congo rivers to cut off the town of Mbandaka and, more important, its airport, a base for bombers that have been giving the MLC problems.
Flood waters cut off the town of Halifax and inundated local businesses.
For almost two years, people have been asking, "Where the heck is Lambertville?" In August, Lambertville awoke when they learned that the pipeline not only threatened to cut through the reservoir's water pipe, but also that PennEast would be blasting within feet of the reservoir itself, threatening to cut off the town's water supply.
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