Oh, I thought you said...never mind.
lake at 16.43..highest in 10 years.. The corps likes to keep the lake level between 12.5 feet and 15.5 feet. Higher lake levels increase concerns about dike failure.
Outflow options are limited compared to possible inflow
good background article https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/lake-okeechobee-nears-highest-water-level-10-years
At a lake level of 21 feet—a 1-in-100-year flood event—a dike failure would be likely at one or more locations. In the event of a dike failure, waters from Lake Okeechobee would pass through the breach—uncontrollably—and flood adjacent land. Flooding would be severe and warning time would be limited. And with 40,000 people living in the communities protected by the Herbert Hoover Dike, the potential for human suffering and loss of life is significant. Our engineering studies indicate the southern and eastern portions of the dike system are more likely to fail than the northern and western portions of the dike. In general, we would expect a warning time of 24 to 48 hours prior to a dike failure that releases water from the lake; however, under some conditions the warning time might be longer, and under others, a dike failure could occur with no warning.” Belle Glade (population 18,000) on the southeast shore of the lake, is 16’ above sea level, so if Lake Okeechobee is at 21’ above mean sea level and the dike fails, 4 - 5 feet of water could inundate the town.
amazing since further upstream in Tennessee/kentudky for 120 miles the Mississippi is dry.
Good afternoon.
Let me guess. You live in one of these towns: Pahoke, Belle Glade, Okeechobee or Clewiston?
5.56mm
The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused levees to break and killed over 4000 people. You can try to control nature, but it’s a fool’s errand. Humans survive by adapting, not by changing nature.
Anyone guessing that plugging all those old flood control canals wasn’t such a great idea?
That’d make a great commercial. Yeah, we’re monitoring but we aren’t actually doing anything about the problem.
Oh, I thought you said...never mind.
Feds just finished a couple hundred million update on the berm around the big lake.
And still the stoopids in the Army Corps and South Florida Water Management insist on flushing the toilet that is the big lake into the Saint Lucie River estuary, thus killing my river.
All to enable big sugar,big citrus, and big cattle.
How about returning the river of grass like GOD created instead of the disaster the Corps have created....
Damned autoplay. Hate that.