Glad ya'll are ok. I remember having a tornado pass just a mile to the north when I lived in Vinings.
This is a breach that began Monday morning, but something made it worse in the last 3 hours (pump failures?) Looks like all of NOLA will eventually flood now to the current level of the lake.
flow will make a breach enlarge, as will water saturation.
rule one of earth dikes: once you have a breach, you are screwn for as long as the dammed water is at or above the breach's level.
Thanks. It was kind of hairy for a while, wondering if these tornados were going to make it here or not. We live just north of Blairsville GA and are just on a line of separation between two phone companies. Our phone service comes out of Blue Ridge GA (Fannin county) which evidently got some damage from the storm that just slid to our west.
I listened to some of that briefing by the mayor. It's not good if all that is true. We prayed for lives to be spared, not necessarily locations so at least we have a lot of that.
I watched some video one Atlanta station showed of some poor man who lost his wife because of losing grip with her in rising waters. It was heartwrenching.