Posted on 08/30/2012 8:58:15 AM PDT by TSgt
50,000 people have 90 mins evacuate area near Tangipahoa River; dam about to break near Percy Quinn State Park. #nbc33isaac
BTDT. A few years ago, we had a 23 foot flood and was never told to evacuate by the idiot officials who were all, "what, there's a flood coming?" when WE called THEM several times to warn people. I had a eye out for a spot on one of our trees to when I thought was the get the heck outta dodge time. I was also in the middle of canning pickles and wasn't about to leave before those were done. Between the canning batches, I called the neighbors, threw the keepsakes, clothes and food in the vehicles along with the pets and kids. There was no question we were leaving because we had one very sick kid and the only way out is across a low water crossing. As I was calmly putting the last of the jars onto the cooling rack, the water hit the spot on the tree and we were out the door to spend the night up in the hills. The next morning we came back home to find someone's kitchen cabinets on our deck but everything else was ok including the pickles. That wasn't the first flood and won't be the last here so we're always aware of the weather. The thing we weren't prepared for was how moronic officals from several departments proved to be.
I was just looking at a map. The Tangipahoa River goes under I-55 about five miles down from this dam.
Does anyone know how high the interstate bridge is over the river?
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It is low. You don’t get into high, solid bridges until you get into the swampland south of Hammond
Me neither. It just looks like a big pond at 700 acres.
We don't need the Corpse of Engineers to sandbag squat. The old Corp of Engineers' job was to prevent the need for citizens to sandbag anything in the middle of the night!
The new, "better" Corps, these days, is busy declaring "wetands" out of thin air and denying people the use of their property.
Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?
That's a long way for the water to flow and should distribute itself quite a lot before reaching the more populated areas.
Well, he's advising people to get out but he's still slip sliding on the stupid comment hill. If you leave the fate of your family to a coin toss you deserve what you get.
Speaking of stupid officials: a friend in Louisiana tells me that when she called to ask for evacuation status and directions, she was told, “Download our app.” She was outraged. She has a smart phone, but she told the official in brisk language that many poor elderly people, or just plain elderly people, do NOT, and they had better develop some more traditional ways of telling the non-technologically oriented and those people who can’t afford a data plan. Also, cell towers may well be out of operation during a major emergency, so where are all your fine apps then, Mr Emergency Official? God help us.
I’m glad your pickles survived :)
A year ago Irene passed through our town. It was every man for himself. The town was so unprepared for the locals. They had no plan or reserves. Yet, FEMA thought that NYC was going to be hit and figured the folks would be heading upstate when they were told to evacuate. FEMA sent food upstate for those NYC peeps. Turns out, us locals used the food.
but isn’t that just mostly white people in that area?
are there roads in the area that will allow that kind of evacuation?
That dam/lake was classified by the Corps of Engineers as having insufficient capability to discharge water w/o overflowing of the earthen dam in the event of a heavy rains according to this article in 1978:
3/4ths of them are probably journalists.
Bush’s fault.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2012/08/miss_officials_to_breach_isaac.html
Miss. officials to breach Isaac-damaged dam on Tangipahoa River
Thursday, August 30, 2012, 12:36 PM
By Jeff Adelson, The Times-Picayune
BATON ROUGE — Mississippi officials are planning a controlled breach of a dam on the Tangipahoa River in Pike County inundated by Isaac to prevent massive flooding from Kentwood to Robert, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday. The dam is in imminent danger of failing, which could send 17 feet of water to Kentwood within 90 minutes, Jindal said.
So, they knew it would fail 34 years ago.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah; the ‘repairs’ they hoped to effect this fall and winter are probably recommendations from the 1978 report ... I would not be surprised if that was the case ..
I’m surprised NBC acknowledged this - it’s not New Orleans....
Bush (or the Romney Republicans) didn’t suffiently fund New Orleans wall whiched consequently cause N.O. to flood.
Likewise, Bush (or the Romney Republicans) didn’t sufficiently fund this dam.
Doesn’t matter if its true. Thats the benefit of being a lying propagandist leftist media hack.
Just make @#$% up to fit your twisted agenda.
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