If history repeats itself, the Corps of Engineers is already draining a good portion of the lake in anticipation of Dorian’s landfall. I still have a house in West Palm and have been arguing for years that they should just fix the damn levees and retain the largest source for drinking water in South Florida, rather than flushing it into the ocean every time a storm threatens.
Corps of Engineers is smarter than our water authority who refused to drain ours when they knew a week to 10 days out that the waters were coming. 40+ feet and they took no responsibility for the lives, homes and property that was lost last October.
There were two ways to get into town. Two of those across bridges. They let the wall of water take out one bridge. People had to drive an extra hour to get a gallon of milk or get their kids to school or to work. If they had a work to go to after so many businesses were closed.
I KNEW they could drain the water because they did it 40 some years ago. If they could do it then, they certainly could do it today. It’s 90 feet deep here and they drained it so low that us kids could hop across the boulders to the other side. Great fun!
But nooooo. They sit behind their computers a couple hours away and pick lint from their belly buttons and fine people who can’t get already booked up crews to come in and haul off debris.