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50,000 people have 90 mins evacuate, dam about to break near Percy Quinn State Park
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/isaac ^ | 8/30/2012 | Breaking News

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: evacuation; huricaneisaac; hurricane; isaac; isaacflooding; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: rod1

To quote Richard Pryor:

Mudbone:.”...everybody in the world knows there ain’t a n!$$@^ in the world can stop no water when it want to go...”


41 posted on 08/30/2012 9:23:31 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: al_c
Hmmm .... looking at a map, I don’t see how this dam break would affect 50,000 people

Most of the population is 40-50 miles downriver in Louisiana near Lake Ponchartrain.

42 posted on 08/30/2012 9:24:01 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: tcrlaf

Good pic. Thanks.


43 posted on 08/30/2012 9:24:28 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: Kartographer

One of my very favorite God jokes....the number one spot is about God, scientists, and .....dirt.

May God keep watch over all in the path.
TAtt


44 posted on 08/30/2012 9:24:28 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: TSgt

"FORE!"

45 posted on 08/30/2012 9:25:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: tcrlaf

Prayers.


46 posted on 08/30/2012 9:26:25 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Strategerist

There is levee breached farther downstream, that has breached. Water from this dam would flow through that breach.


47 posted on 08/30/2012 9:28:18 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf

Domino effect?


48 posted on 08/30/2012 9:29:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: TSgt
This looks like a job for Superman.


49 posted on 08/30/2012 9:34:56 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.)
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50 posted on 08/30/2012 9:35:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: TSgt

Found this update.
pdated 12:01 p.m. ET] OK, so a small conflict in reports from officials near the Tangipahoa River.

Despite early reports of an apparent levee failure near Lake Tangipahoa, which is close to the Mississippi-Louisiana state line, Mayor Whitney Rawlings of McComb, Mississippi, says Pike County Civil Defense informed him that “the dam is holding, but they are concerned it may fail,” WWL reports on air.

He further said it’s a coin toss whether it will fail, but, “This might go. People need to be moving now.”

Bear with us as we work out the discrepancy in the reports and work to determine whether the dam has failed or is expected to fail.


51 posted on 08/30/2012 9:37:39 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: null and void

The “dam” is really a spillway so there are no floodgates to open to release the stress. From various reports, inspectors are checking it but haven’t said exactly what’s happening. The water isn’t over the spillway so imo it’s probably going to burst. This link says waters are expected to rise to 17 feet below it.

http://www.fox40tv.com/news/local/story/Percy-Quin-State-Park-dam-in-jeapordy/rpbfuhlOSUOsN8UTIFOCPA.cspx?rss=2331


52 posted on 08/30/2012 9:37:57 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Strategerist

Still, take a look at google maps pic. This is not a huge lake. Spread that much water out over 40-50 miles of downstream acreage and it might or might not have a noticeable impact.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake+Tangipahoa+at+Percy+Quinn+State+Park&ll=31.183581,-90.523739&spn=0.039285,0.055704&hq=Lake+Tangipahoa+at+Percy+Quinn+State+Park&radius=15000&t=h&z=14


53 posted on 08/30/2012 9:39:49 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: TSgt; SLB
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? This could be a major hindrance to relief efforts in the short term and to travel through this region in the long term.

54 posted on 08/30/2012 9:40:21 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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To: Blueflag

The problem is that a Levee near Kentland (??) has burst, and water from a dam break would flow through that levee.


55 posted on 08/30/2012 9:42:22 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: rod1

“I assume it is another campaign day for Obama?”

I just looked at his “schedule.” He has lunch planned with Biden.


56 posted on 08/30/2012 9:42:54 AM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some prettyI good ideas.)
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To: TSgt

Obama and his designated subordinates should have traveled there, to put a stop to this “hurricane” and related problems.

By their negligence, they let the hurricane and the floods have their way, people in harms way, homes flooded, electricity lost, etc.

They should have known from past experience that people in the area are helpless, will wait for the government to come to their rescue.


57 posted on 08/30/2012 9:44:03 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Uncle Slayton

is that guy in white to the right wearing a dress or what?


58 posted on 08/30/2012 9:45:42 AM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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To: tcrlaf

TWITTER:

Gov @BobbyJindal: Is the dam breaks, it could rival the floods of record, which are 1983 and 1990 in Tangipahoa

Gov @BobbyJindal: If the dam in Louisiana breaks, it will take about 90 minutes for the water to get to Kentwood, Louisiana.

ABC’s Jonathon Betz:
Officials intend to intentionally breach the dam, to prevent collapse.


59 posted on 08/30/2012 9:49:12 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: dfwgator

60 posted on 08/30/2012 9:49:22 AM PDT by mikrofon (Obama needs some "R&R")
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