Churning storm sparks concern over dike leaks (startled crabs & fish stress over families & homes)

The Fort Myers News Press via SOUNDOFF ^ | 09-05-03 | PAMELA SMITH HAYFORD

[AAABEST]

What they don't say in this article is that we are 100% saturated right now. All of the canals (which were originally designed and dug to protect human life and property) are over their high water mark. What they're supposed to be doing and what they used to do was start letting the water flow early so that saturation and capacity can be reduced in case of a hurricane or the like..

Those were the good old days though. Now the sick b***ard druid types control everything everywhere, startled crabs and stressed fish take priority over human lives and livelihoods. If we get a big storm we are screwed.

[babyface00]

I thought this was a thread about Hillary...

[AAABEST]

ACOE nightmare ping.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[ctlpdad]

milf may be off the tracks, but here we have leaky dikes.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm really disappointed that nobody pinged me to the MILF posts that offended somebody, and I had to step away. Know what they were?

[HairOfTheDog]

This appears to be a pretty straightforward article about the effects of the heavy rains and high water... I am not seeing what the problem is with your bold paragraph.

Is there some argument about how the water should be released when it rains like Hell? - What am I missing?

[AAABEST]

Okay I'll bite. WTF is a MILF?

[ctlpdad]

if you know it's supposed to be capitalized, i have a sneaking suspicion you know the answer to your own question.

[AAABEST]

I honestly have no idea, I saw CP capitalize it.

[Constitution Day]

Everyone knows the best solution for a leaky dike is to put your finger in it. ;)

[Constitution Day]

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

;)

[AAABEST]

I read through half that thread and I'm even more confused than when I first asked.

N/M, I guess one had to be there.

[evad]

WTF is a MILF

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Hehe..well,that's one answer..
on the extremely off chance you seriously don't know, do a google and see what "pops up".

Enjoy ;-)

[Cobra64]

I thought this was a thread about Hillary...

Fooled me too. I was thinking Janet Reno though.

[AAABEST]

Oh okay. I've known a few of them in the past.

[cogitator]

Is there some argument about how the water should be released when it rains like Hell?

The problem is that the flow is channelized, and when the system was entirely natural (before the Army Corps of Engineers redesigned South Florida) it wasn't. When there was more water in the unchannelized system, the water level over the whole Everglades would go up a couple of inches. But now, with channelized flow, a fairly normal rainy summer in Florida (and I think this is the first rainy summer for about 4? years) causes a "backup" in Okeechobee and high water levels in all of the canals.

[Cobra64]

Okay I'll bite. WTF is a MILF?

I've heard the expression has been construed as, "Mothers I'd Like to F...."

[HairOfTheDog]

Right.... I think I get that at some point people decided they wanted to move in and not be flooded, so dikes were built that keep most people dry most of the time...

I can see that 'what to do' about the water would have all kinds of room for debate.... I just can't figure out at the moment who is supposed to do what... Not that there is anything wrong with that. I am at the other corner of the country.