[RayChuang88]

Actually, the levees in the Sacramento area along the Sacramento and American Rivers were extensively shored up between 1998 and 2004 after that VERY scary situation in January 1997 when the American River came within a few feet of overflowing its banks due to a massive Pineapple Express storm. I should know--I saw all the construction work going on near my current house with a lot of earth moving equipment to shore up the levees on both sides of the American River.

[KC Burke]

I don’t doubt there was some shoring up at that time but I saw them after that in 2008. During the time I was there I drove along the levee areas and ate a restaurants along the river. While they may be better than they were they aren’t built to withstand much river abuse in my opinion as someone who spent a lifetime in construction. They remind me of what we called agricultural levees outside of urban areas in Missouri but in this case they were five miles above suburban areas in Sacramento.

Not wishing anyone any disasters, that’s for sure but I think I want people to have possibilities in their thinking. Plan ahead.