almost continuous for last 10-12 years.
my apologies for the confusion. i meant the levee behind my neighborhood (in lower terrebonne). it has failed multiple times in past and it’s...
i’m not talking about the river levee.
fuck! our levee gonna cut this one close.
welp, cell says “no service” wind gusts picking up. so when electric runs out, i’ll lose contact with outside world until somewhere on back...
not sure about morgan city, but down in lower terrebonne, 10-20 stretched across 3 days is doable without major flooding. parts of houma would...
football field (goal post to goal post) about 19 foot deep. would be roughly 1 million cubic feet. that much water moving past a specific point...
and it’s gone again. gonna be a looooooong night at this rate.
1 swimming pool is what Niagara averages. every second. when river is raging at its meanest, it’s 17 swimming pools per second flowing over a...
aaaaand just lost power. nevermind, came back while typing
don’t know acre feet, but put it like this. an olympic size swimming pool is about 87,000 cubic feet. on average, one of those dumps over...
2011 (last time Morganza opened) there was no measurable drop in river height. river lowered the way it always does. as amount of water coming...
Niagara Falls averages around 85,000 cubic feet per second. they typically open morganza at 1.5 million
yep. now the only question is who gets the big rains that are still offshore. NOLA cannot handle those amounts of rain.
in this particular situation it would not have helped. it was built to relieve pressure pushing on the levee, which at the moment is not a...
river would still be high as fuck even if morganza was opened. it would fuck people without actually helping the situation. 21 words.
ok mr wizard, please enlighten us all on where you think the water would have magically gone. the river, lake pontchartrain, and the gulf are...
wtf are you even talking about? status quo? personal bias? do you know how science works? the bonnet carre has been open for month and hasn’t...
isaac was weird one too. like we got some intense shit just before the eye got to us. then it collapsed to the point where we never got the back...
yeah, because levee failure is an absolute worst case possible. avoiding that is top priority. period. also, the spillways are NOT designed to...
