Posted on 06/23/2011 10:20:38 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
On June 23, 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drastically increased the amount of water released from the Gavins Point Dam into the Missouri.
On June 23, 2011, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency announced that flood waters along the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, south of Offutt Air Force Base, surpassed previous flood records set in 1993 when they reached 36.03 feet. Nebraska City, Nebraska also surpassed 1993 levels with a record 27.79 feet.
Intimidating, perhaps, but not surprising to the Army Corps of Engineers who announced Tuesday, June 21, 2011, that they would increase the amount of water released into the Missouri River from Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, South Dakota from 155,000 cfs, or cubic feet per second, which was the amount they originally planned to maintain for the rest of the summer, to 160,000 cfs on June 23, 2011, anticipating an average increase of four inches in flood water levels.
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Family back home said we might not be able to get there for the Fourth. No good way to get across the Missouri.
Fort Calhoun is 40 or so miles from my parents house. Not a good thing.
It didn’t break. Someone won’t be driving a skid loader in the near future.
I understand the main I 80 route through Omaha is still ok. And I thought 680 over and across through Blair was still ok?
My guess is you want to be up wind. In fact, some may not be able to get up wind because they cannot cross the Missouri traveling east to west. Access roads are a mess.
We have new reports now about what happened at Fort Calhoun. See below links. The breaking of the levee surrounding the plant knocked out the diesel generators or what ever on site power they were using. They had to switch to batteries while they switched to off site power. They are now running on off site power. Darn good thing they ran that line ? Plan is to repair the levee dam. And note - Fort Calhoun is not running. Just holding a lot of dirty rods.
Floodwaters Breach Nebraska Nuke Berm
Rain should be leaving later today until next weekend. Should give them sometime to assess the damage.
Oh, and the GE/NRC spokesman said these are not the droids you are looking for.
Later.
Highway 30 through Blair is shut down, and I 29 north to Onawa is closed.
My parents live north of Omaha, and my mother in law north of Sioux City. We can get to either one, but it will take some doing.
They can head west if needed. That is up wind for the most part.
I heard from friends near by that the diesel generators are knocked out. Why they build those in the basement I will never know. The new line is good, but with all the storms that is a thin life line.
They should have good weather for a few days. Some reports claim water is seeping into buildings. Nothing confirmed on that yet.
The net is swimming right now with reports of a “10 Mile Mandatory Evacuation Area” being implemented right now.
Anyone able to confirm this or dispel this as a rumor?
FYI - The Army Corps of Engineers has stated that there will be consequences for people spreading false rumors. Just posting the above link for informational purposes and because you asked about it.
“Anyone able to confirm this or dispel this as a rumor?”
Funny!
My daughter would let me know if that was true!! It’s not.
If people want to know if something crazy like this was happening, either of these 2 sources would be all over it:
Are you implying that wind blown radiation is likely.....
At any rate, some of the videos of Fort Calhoun are very depressing. They must have a couple dozen sump pumps moving water out from sandbagged buildings and structures. And this flood is supposed to last through August.
It very much appeared you were saying radiation was probable / likely. And we all should be looking to be up-wind.
Thanks for clearing that up........
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