The 3000 pound sand bags would have done nothing except add more silt to the flooded areas. I was working on a very small dam once (less than a couple of acres) I was in a hundred thousand pound excavator. It rained real hard while I was working and I got stuck in the mud and the water was rising all around me. All I could do was throw water at the dam with the bucket to breach the dam before the engine went under water. I got a small trickle started over the top and within 5 minutes, the force of the water carried me through the dam to the other side like I was in a tonka toy. I really lucked out as the water never made it to the turbo inlet. If a tiny little pond can do that with a hundred thousand pounds, the Pontchartrain would roll big bags of sand like grains of sand.
That is a heart stopping story. Wow. Smart.
I'm surprised that once it breeched, any of it has held...
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1. Thanks. I appreciate the expert information.
2. If it would have done nothing, I suppose that means after the billions and billions spent, in the end no plan would have worked.
I found the mayor to be another rat idiot...making that really stupid comment...