Obviously there is a concern they cannot prevent a wall of water, else they would not have started evacuations.. I have been watching this unfold since the rupture was first noticed last week...
Personally, I think people should have been 'warned' to be prepared to flee last Thursday... I thought it was typically 'liberal' to wait until Sunday afternoon and then call for evacuations...
That is what I meant by having doubts these in power know what they are doing.
There are 200,000 homeless people with noting but what they could pack into the vehicles in 20 minutes.
They went from “everything is OK” to immediate evacuation due to imminent failure in less than 12 hours.
When any fool could see the overflow was going to wash away the unprotected hillside and compromise the integrity of the vessel.
Moonbeam is concerned about the effects a large volume water release will have on the snail darter. Environmental impact statements should be completed and resulting lawsuits should be cleared up in a decade or so.
Those baskets hold about 1/2 cubic yard of stone. Think about how many helicopter trips that will take. Don’t those helos burn fossil fuels? Why isn’t Moonbeam worried about the carbon footprint of this project?
Moonbeam and his ilk are constantly lecturing us on our responsibility to the planet. Now he doesn’t care all that much about global warming.