""DUMB QUESTION TIME - WHERE ARE HELICOPTERS TO DROP 1000LB POLY PLY BAGS OF SAND INTO THE BREECH? WHERE ARE THE EMPTY BARGES TO SINK AT THE BREECH TO DO THE SAME THING???""
"The misunderstood fact is that these items are not just lying around waiting to be used."
Theres a gazillion vessels in the proximity that are not salvageable that can be towed to the breach and scuttled with .50 cal weapons in short order. This in conjunction with sandbags would greatly reduce the inundation of downtown NO
I know a thing or three about this and
Why not??? A levee breach was a foreseeable event from any big storm that happened to come close. Proper contingency planning dictates that these things ARE kept laying around ready to use. No excuse for the city and state not being ready for such a problem.
You gotta have something to tow with.
It will come. What's local is drowned or needed and being used.
When you gotta bring stuff in from elsewhere, it takes time to transport.
When your skycrane is under contract to do some other job, you have to get freed.
When your smaller helicopters are busy fighting fires in Washington state, you have to figure out where your resources can be best used.
When your waterway is screwy, is it safe to launch larger boats down flooded streets?
Army Corps is working as fast as it can, I bet. But even they have to get the equipment together to do it.
FYI, guess what, sandbagging the lake failed.
I was afraid that would happen.
You can't expect some bags to hold back a lake.