Posted on 06/24/2024 3:35:32 PM PDT by Libloather
She lives in Mankato, and has family throughout the area. She thinks they will be ok, but we are urging her to have evacuation plans prepared.
If the area to the right of the damn is earth and not bedrock it will fail. I hope it is bedrock.
In two lakes near me and they are big lakes, Stillhouse and Belton, the emergency spillway is several hundred yards wide and cut into the bedrock. In the last 35 years both have been utilized twice. The flow into the lake exceeded the capacity of the damns to release water and the lakes rose. Everything was okay as the emergency spillways worked as designed. On most occasions the Corp of engineers get it right. They did not in New Orleans and the Katrina Hurricane.
Actually I just looked up her address, and yes, I think she’s in danger. Say some prayers. I’ve known her since I was 10. My best childhood friend.
Little boy buttagig can go put his finger in it.
Ok, she’s north of the dam, so I hope that’s helpful. She says it it stressful though. Her parents live near her and they are in their early 90’s.
I hope your friend and her family come through OK. I always take an interest in any mention of Mankato, since my father was from there. It’s not impossible that your friend and I are distantly related, as I still have some cousins and such in that part of the world.
I am very disappointed in you! You forgot that we all know our pronouns now.
“Little boy buttagig can go put his finger in it.”
The last time he tried putting his finger in a dike he got the crap beat out of him.
Looks like it already has failed.
Both of her parents are from there, and her husband’s family is from somewhere up there, too. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. She has a LARGE family.
We went to grade school in Florida together. I spent nearly every day at her house after school in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. We would walk home from school to her house, and either my mom would pick me up there or at the library, which was just another few blocks from her house, and in between our homes. Her family would go to Elysian every summer to have their time back with their family, at the old one-room schoolhouse turned home that her father attended to as a kid.
We have been friends since then, and still see each other at least once a year, though we are still fairly far apart. Two other grade schools friends make us a group of 4. I don’t know anyone our age who has 3 friends from childhood that they’re still in touch with, and make it a point to see each other annually, if not more frequently, when the four of us live so far apart. Special bond. We are family to each other.
That’s really nice. One of my brothers still has a friend from grade school, but I lost track of everyone from then a long time ago.
And ended up wearing fake boobs. It’s some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome.
Most of us do lose touch, for sure. We just happened to stay in touch through college, marriages, kids, etc. For a long while, it was yearly Christmas letters. But then we always wanted to see each other again in person, so maybe 15 years ago, the four of us made it a point to meet up, at the old schoolhouse that I’d always heard about, but had never been to. That was a great reunion. Ever since then, we’ve realized that we have something special. Our husbands are all good guys and get along, and let us giggle without bothering us. We are perpetually 12-13 years old when we see each other, but with wisdom now. ;)
I’ve got family and friends in the decimated areas of Iowa and SD. It’s absolutely horrible.
Pray for these people.
Was that the one where all the architect/designers/engineers were women?
IIRC that river runs north so she could be in danger.
Yes it was. Women of various races too. A veritable cornucopia of DEI.
Didn’t Obama’s trillions for “shovel ready jobs” get rolled in to the baseline AND Chomo Joe was responsible for those same trillions?
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