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re: Mississippi River Flooding - Links & Pictures in 1st Post
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:01 pm to geauxlsu09
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:01 pm to geauxlsu09
I would imagine that the diversion canal is already very very high. I havnt been thru there to see though I can ask my bro-in-law later when I talk to him. I ama sure the larto lake area is already flooded.
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Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:02 pm to bencoleman
Water is rising...an what would make it worse is if a T-storm comes out of no where.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:02 pm to SimonSlick
Simon you must be from the Parhams Bend area
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:05 pm to CajunFootball
See this map that shows what areas were covered with water in 1927. It's scary, but one thing to consider is that in '27, they were going with this theory that if you closed outlets, the river would pick up steam and scour the channel. This is the levees-only theory mentioned in the quote above. That changed in 1927. 5 years earlier, the Poydras Crevasse of 1927 was created and a wall of water 115 feet high and 1500 feet wide flooded plaquemines parish.
This post was edited on 5/4/11 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:09 pm to CajunFootball
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Water is rising...an what would make it worse is if a T-storm comes out of no where.
Rain here will have very little to no effect on the river level.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:11 pm to Kajungee
I've seen some pretty bad T-Storms before. Plus, if anything happened then having rain would complex it with the workers.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:13 pm to CajunFootball
Go google image search the How About No bear. That's the answer you're ignoring from one post above yours regarding a t storm in this area affecting the river.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:20 pm to ComicTiger
Whens the weather board coming online? 
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:24 pm to ComicTiger
Just an FYI for smartphone users, but Droid app has an app called RiverFlows. Gives you streamflow and gauge height (observed and forecast) in a graph. You can set the important ones as favorites so you don't have to reload it every time.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:27 pm to CajunFootball
The Mississippi River past old river is higher than anything around it.
Nothing flows into the Mississippi in south Louisiana so rainfall doesn't change the river level.
Nothing flows into the Mississippi in south Louisiana so rainfall doesn't change the river level.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:27 pm to Big McLargeHuge
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Just an FYI for smartphone users, but Droid app has an app called RiverFlows.
It costs $5. frick that.
NM. I'sa tard. It's a calculation tool to help determine flow.
Iphone has one called RiverReader for $1
This post was edited on 5/4/11 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:31 pm to mikelbr
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It's a calculation tool to help determine flow.
I miss the days when brains did that.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:39 pm to mikelbr
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It costs $5. frick that.
Just from reading your post in the past I will say it is a safe bet that you have wasted $5 on things of much less value.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:43 pm to Choirboy
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Just from reading your post in the past I will say it is a safe bet that you have wasted $5 on things of much less value.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:44 pm to Kajungee
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Rain here will have very little to no effect on the river level.
The lack of rain will help. I'm sure some of the engineers on the board can explain how the low water table with the lack of rain will help take in some of the water that is coming downriver which will prevent any major flooding down here. Now if the ground was already saturated I think we would have something to worry about....unless that happens, I think this is all a big fuss for nothing.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:46 pm to tgrbaitn08
I can't imagine that a 4" rain deficit is going to help out against a 65ft. river.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:47 pm to TheWiz
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I can't imagine that a 4" rain deficit is going to help out against a 65ft. river.
Man, it hasnt rained down here in over a month....are we only behind 4"?
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:50 pm to tgrbaitn08
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I think this is all a big fuss for nothing
This is already out of the window in parts of North Louisiana
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:51 pm to TheWiz
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I can't imagine that a 4" rain deficit is going to help out against a 65ft. river.
No, it will not reduce the water level but lack of rain will positively affect integrity of levees and reduce time table for drainage.
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