Posted on 07/24/2010 2:22:31 PM PDT by Justaham
A dam on an eastern Iowa lake suffered a "catastrophic" failure Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee, officials said.
The Lake Delhi dam, about 45 miles north of Cedar Rapids, failed as a result of "massive rain -- a very unusually high amount this season," according to Jim Flansburg, communications director for Gov. Chet Culver.
Culver told CNN that nearly 10 inches of rain had recently fallen in a 12-hour period in the area and was "too much water for the dam to hold."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Prayers being said. How horrible.
Thanks for posting that link. The footage they have up of the stuff being broken up by the damn, and the side of it giving way is amazing and terrifying at the same time...
Golly Moses.
Prayers for those folks.
Where’s FNC drama Queen Shep Smith whining about how the federal government isn’t doing more and how 0bama (peace be upon him) doesn’t care about rural white people? Oh yeah, Shep don’t care either...
“Never let facts get in the way of a good rant. Cheetahcat probably doesn’t even know how to use an inflation calculator to see how much $1K in the 1920s would be worth today. ($1000 in 1928 would be about $12,746.49 today.)”
Typical Liberal retort!
Not everyone who is literate is liberal.
“Not everyone who is literate is liberal.”
LOL Really,You need to upgrade your information sources.
If you really want to post that all conservatives are illiterate, you probably ought to be on another site.
Many of the comments at the source article are just damn sick.
My God.... How screwed this country is...
“If you really want to post that all conservatives are illiterate, you probably ought to be on another site.”
Talking to yourself is not a good sign, get that looked at,But could be that one brain cell of yours is fighting for dominance.
“It is privately owned and is over 30 years old”
So what do you do for a living.
Oh, I own a dam.
What?
Well, sure.
If I didn't own a dam, how could I possibly give a dam?
actually, I read something a little bit ago that indicates it is 80 years old.
“First Tempe Town Lake, and now this!”
Are you hinting at a conspiracy?
This may be a little off topic, but did you notice the weather spotter’s name was Amanda Duck? Talk about destiny.
Not more than a few hundred people, probably all white, were in any kind of even remote danger.
This is a 450 lake in a rural area. Hardly the drama indicated by headlines without background info.
What you can't see in the pictures is that the water was coming out from UNDERNEATH the DAM. The BASE of the DAM has been compromised.
Previous thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2558348/posts
The Lake Delhi dam was built in the 1920s by a group of local developers. (Lakeside living has a certain panache.)
What I found amazing were the details on how many *privately owned dams* there are in the United States.
Mila said:
Found this-
“Dam Ownership in the United States
Most U.S. dams are privately owned (56.4%) followed by local governments (20.1%), undetermined interests (11.6%), state governments (4.8%), the federal government (4.7%), and public utilities (2.4%).
Source: National Inventory of Dams, February 2005
Dam owners are responsible for the safety and the liability of the dam and for financing its upkeep, upgrade, and repair.
Although most infrastructure facilities, such as roads, bridges, and sewer systems, are owned by public entities, the majority of dams in the United States are privately owned. In general, very large dams are owned and regulated by the Federal Government.
Given the diffuse nature of dam ownership versus regulation in the United States, it is apparent that dam safety and security are often not solely a federal, state, or local issue.
The safety and security of a dam can affect persons and property across local, state, and even national borders. An incident in one area can affect commerce, navigation, and power generation and distribution, or it can cause severe damage in another area. As a result, there is a reasonable federal role to coordinate federal, state, and local efforts to provide dam safety and security to citizens.
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/damfailure/ownership.shtm";
According to a popolar bumper sticker, we all do.
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