Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
This MAY be worse then katrina for southern LA outside of NO..Kartrina winds blew the surge out with winds form the north and they didn't have as much rainwater flowing south
I seem to recall an earlier post to you... hmmm.... what was it? Ah! "Piss off, Granola Boy."
Yes, that was it.
Signed,
Bubba
Saw that...interesting slope to that projection...steady...for the forseeable future...
I am getting saturated here....going to crash this box soon...just so's ya know...
A few years ago Canyon Lake (west of New Braunfels) flooded and the spillway was "used" for the first time. I don't think they realized what the results would be. Over 800 homes were damaged or destroyed and the water carved a gorge.
Here's a link that talks about the Canyon Lake Dam and there's a picture near the bottom of the gorge.
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/canyon.html
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That's all I can come up with, the flow down the Trinity isn't very impressive.
I wonder if it isn't just a rain-induced event, maybe rain plus wind. I don't know the entire makeup of the dam, but a large part of it is earthen, with a concrete spillway. I don't picture a sieche in a body that size, waves maybe, but I don't think that's it. The purpose of the release is stated as necessary for damage assessment, not for level control. THey want to drawi it down fast for some reason.
The flow downstream, based on the charts, is mighty impressive and shows the 80,000 cfs planned release rate. Up stream isn't near that great a flow; but the reservoir may be anticipated as filling from runoff other than what comes in via the upstream river.
I'd have to spend some time chacking other rivers to see if more than local flash flooding is expected due to Rita rainfall.
"Heavy rain and winds reaching 65km/h were reported in the city as the hurricane came ashore before dawn, according to the spokesperson, adding that Houston still faced the risk of flooding."
Fwiw, I was playing top league tennis today in winds of up to 60 km/h at time. Not very pleasant, but nothing to worry about.
Yes. Lake P should go to at least normal plus 8 feet. When the wind stops, that will slosh back south, with....predictable results.
UPPER Terrebone?
Upper JEFFERSON?
Not good.
Not good at all.
Perhaps it has something to do with how they got/get rich...
Calcasieu River at Salt Water Barrier [above Lake Charles; not good]
http://ahps.srh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=lch&gage=lchl1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1
ps. any word about conditions at Fort Polk, LA?
That dope FNC's Hemmer still has, "the Algiers section of New Orleans 12 feet above sea level." That does not appear to be correct.
here is the Maptech chart site.
http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm?lat=29.9987869571&lon=-89.8956324939&scale=175000&zoom=50&type=0&height=498&width=498&icon=0&searchscope=dom&CFID=1685345&CFTOKEN=18001136&scriptfile=http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm&bpid=MAP0204021051%2C2%2C1%2C0&latlontype=DMS
The upstream Trinity River projection is flat, but the downstream, of the dam, are sharply rising in coincidnce with a planned 80,000 cfs release.
Bayou Gauche is SW of NO....NW of Houma...That puts a LOT of area underwater or at risk.
yep...it tooks a couple of days for the lake to get back to normal levels after katrina and that was with a west wind helping to blow the water out
FoxNews reporterette: "It is a sunny night in Houston..."
"I wear my sunglasses at night."
Rosa Machado walks in waist high flood water as her neighbors' trailer burns in Lafite, La., after Hurricane Rita passed through the area, Saturday.
6 to 9 feet above flood stage. Upstream is forcast above flood too, for the next two days.
Ok. Gpapa's link (actually not his, one it led to) only showed up to current, no projection....so the Trinity's going to flood stage tomorrow, above a damaged dam....lovely.
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