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Do you think they cheaped out on rip-rap? Should it not go down to the bottom of the dam? Think the embankment is too steep? Who built it? Halliburton :)?

Clearly, this is George Bush's fault and even though the construction was done in 1966 by Forest and Cotton, Inc., I sense Halliburton involvement. Just what was Dick Cheney doing in 1966? I just can't imagine the riprap vanishing, I'll bet the slope is less than 3-1 or they didn't go to the bottom but most likely Halliburton stole it for use in Iraq.

Barnes said the city has done its own calculations and he doesn't think the river will rise as high as 29 feet, though residents should assume otherwise. Barnes said that Liberty the city of 8,300 is prepared because it built a 34-foot levee after the 1994 flooding. The river flows through the city.

The initial wall of water was 36 feet (at least at the gaging station) maybe that's why they scaled it back. It's at 37k CFS now.

"We feel comfortable," Barnes said. "We will not reach a critical mass stage for the majority of the city of . I just don't think it's going to happen."

Hope he's right. . I think it's time for a field trip to inspect the dam about 40 miles upstream of me.

Do you think they cheaped out on rip-rap? Should it not go down to the bottom of the dam? Think the embankment is too steep? Who built it? Halliburton :)?

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Clearly, this is George Bush's fault and even though the construction was done in 1966 by Forest and Cotton, Inc., I sense Halliburton involvement. Just what was Dick Cheney doing in 1966? I just can't imagine the riprap vanishing, I'll bet the slope is less than 3-1 or they didn't go to the bottom but most likely Halliburton stole it for use in Iraq.

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Tee hee. I've been anxiously awaiting the moment the Halliburton conspiracists realize that the George R. Brown Convention Center here in Houston that housed so many of the Katrina refugees from NOLA was named for the most esteemed founder of KBR, Halliburton's Kellogg-Brown & Root subsidiary which is actually doing all these supposedly evil machinations.