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
You should offer that bet over at DU. That would be good for about a 10 minute username.
They had already had a lot of rain recently and the ground absolutely could not soak up any more.
If you’re near Vickburge, Mississippi, I think the actual report can be found in this volume:
Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Vicksburg, MS 39180 United States
Material Type: Government publication, National government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Vicksburg District.; National Dam Safety Program (Mississippi); Lacoste, Ashley & Associates, Inc.
OCLC Number: 23026819
Notes: Cover title.
“MS 579”—Cover.
Description: 1 v. (loose-leaf) : ill., maps, photos. ; 28 cm.
Other Titles:
Phase 1 inspection report, National Dam Safety Program.
Phase I inspection report, National Dam Safety Program.
National Dam Safety Program.
Lake Tangipahoa, Pike County, Mississippi phase 1 inspection report, National Dam Safety Program.
Responsibility: prepared by Lacoste, Ashley & Associates, Inc. for State of Mississippi [and U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg, Corps of Engineers].
And I think this gentleman was with the Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, at the time:
http://www.bcdgeo.com/index.php/staff/staff-details/41/
Oh good Lord... 90 minutes is not much warning at all. Please spare them.
are there roads in the area that will allow that kind of evacuation?
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Yes, but I-55 is key.
Would this be under Gov. Jindal’s control?
Prayers up!!
Co worker here had 5' water in his home.
Praying for all those along the Tangi.
Realize the problematic earthen dam is in Mississippi ... the flooding occurs downstream into Louisiana ...
No idea, I’m not from around there.
I was referring to the OP’s report of a request for evacuation instructions in LA—sounded like a LA state emergency response issue to me.
Obama’s fault.
Why is Obama using his weather machine that Bush built to drown all the black people in New Orleans and the surrounding areas???
/s
*spew*
Jindal will still get the blame.
Me neither!
In other words, typical government efficiency.
It's worse than we thought; this was a 'government' operation from the start!
From:
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1939
Located deep within:
ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/12120/Ann_Rep_Dir_Civ_Con_Cor_1939.pdf?sequence=1
we find:
Largest Park Dam CompletedbTwelve dams were completed, including the longest CCC park dam yet constructed in the East, a 2,000-foot earthen barrier which impounds a 540-acre basin in the Tangipahoa River at Percy Quin State Park, Mississippi.
Obama’s Fault!
NO WORRIES, NO WORRIES, FIMA AND OBAMA WILL RESCUE EVERYONE! Billions and billions and billions and billions upon billions of dollars coming down soon.
” NO WORRIES, NO WORRIES, FIMA AND OBAMA WILL RESCUE EVERYONE! “
Number one on the priority list is to have available a bridge for Geraldo and Shep to stand on to wet themselves and CRY REAL TEARS!!!!
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