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re: Can someone explain to me why La hasn't poked holes in the walls along I-12 in DS?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:38 pm to nicholastiger
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:38 pm to nicholastiger
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The bigger lawsuit is comite diversion
Why wasn’t it completed after flood in the 80s
Comite Diversion wouldn't have done a lick of shite in 2016
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:45 pm to fightin tigers
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How many additional houses flooded because of this wall?
The 2016 flooding was going to flood a lot of homes. Things like the I-12 "wall" just changed who flooded and by how much. Holding up that water reduced damage in the lower Amite flood plain for example.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:45 pm to dukke v
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A 1,000 year event???? I’d say maybe a 100 year event.
You dumb frick!
I think I remember you commenting that it was going to be a nothing burger when the thread was started warning of what the projections were showing
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:47 pm to Irregardless
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But despite what you all might think, those little slots would not have changed a single thing. The flooding came back up from south of the interstate from Maurapaus.
WTF ever dude! I walked, swam, and boated in it when it happened. Current was strong as hell flowing parallel to I-12 eastbound that afternoon when the other side of the interstate was dry. Backwater flooding may have got French Settlement, but the wall absolutely flooded Walker.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:50 pm to notiger1997
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You dumb frick!
I think I remember you commenting that it was going to be a nothing burger when the thread was started warning of what the projections were showing
Insurance companies should pay him to predict every coming natural disaster will be the worst in history. They would save a fortune.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:55 pm to LSUAlum2001
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by LSUAlum2001
Now show one of the many pictures that shows the water that high on both sides of the crash barrier hours later.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:00 pm to DakIsNoLB
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3. Even with weep holes, the damage would have been done. Again, 1000-yr event; no amount of weep holes will convey that much water quick enough.
Yeah I’m surprised so many people think drilling holes in those barriers would have drastically changed things. The water still would have risen faster than any weep holes could relieve it.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:03 pm to BeepNode
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Imagine becoming such a feckless society that we believe concrete walls are difficult.
So tell me the design criteria for a concrete wall designed to prevent an 18-wheeler going 70 MPH from crossing onto oncoming traffic.
Do you know what type of construction was used in building these walls? Are they prestressed? Are fixed to the substrate? If so how?
Do you know the process for doing any of this type of work on a federal highway? Does it need to go out for bids? Would drilling holes be the best solution or would cutting out slots at the seems every 10 or 20 feet be a better solution?
It must be nice to just know everything.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:06 pm to lostinbr
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Yeah I’m surprised so many people think drilling holes in those barriers would have drastically changed things. The water still would have risen faster than any weep holes could relieve it.
Right. Go get one of those old school rubber tub stoppers, poke a few holes in it, then turn your tub on full blast. See how fast it drains.
Entire bridges didn't allow enough passage to drain the water fast enough, weep holes damn sure wouldn't have. There's nowhere for the water to go. And even then, is it that much better to "only" have 2 feet 11 inches of water in your house instead of 3 feet?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:08 pm to Ingeniero
Ask some in Walker and they would tell you the water would have been 3' lower at their house had the wall not been there.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:52 pm to BeepNode
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It's been 7 years since the concrete walls on I-12 created a dam and an incredibly dangerous rapid flow of water under the overpass that rescuers had to navigate boats through.
The most puzzling thing to me is after the flood when I12 continued expansion, they did not begin installing drain ports on the wall.
I 10 expansion in Lafayette did get drain ports.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:53 pm to BeepNode
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Again, why are people here so retarded? It was 3ft deep of water on one side and dry on the other side. How is that okay?
Depends on what side you’re on.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:58 pm to fightin tigers
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Because the wall is in the middle of a river flood plain that crested higher than ever could have been predicted.
That explains why it was like that in the first place. It does not answer his question - which is a good one - why haven’t they done something about it.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:02 pm to jiffyjohnson
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i got 4 feet in mine.
4'-7" in mine. Last vehicle out of LP on I12 west. Shut down behind me. Neighbors sitting on I12 for a day.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:19 pm to BeepNode
I am south of I-12 in Denham Springs and had four feet of water in my house. People farther south in my subdivision had water up to their roofs. There were more factors than the interstate wall.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:23 pm to doubleb
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That would be an admission that their design was flawed opening them up to lawsuits
While evidence of subsequent remedial measures is barred, there's little question the plaintiffs would get that information before a jury.
Hence, DOTD won't do it.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:28 pm to BeepNode
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Damn, people. You guys are fricking pathetic.
The fact that you believe they will ever correct it is what's fricking pathetic.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:38 pm to Penrod
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That explains why it was like that in the first place. It does not answer his question - which is a good one - why haven’t they done something about it.
Because the money is better spent elsewhere.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:42 pm to BeepNode
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The walls are not load bearing. They are just for cars to bounce off of
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:46 pm to udtiger
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Hence, DOTD won't do it.
Y’all keep saying this. But they did do it. Even the elevated areas of I-10 in the newly constructed areas have the slots. And they did remedial work on 12 that incorporated the slots.
Those barriers are easily formed with the slots. It’s a major PITA and super expensive to put them where they aren’t. And frankly there is no need to.
The state finally approved the funds to pay the 1988 flood suit. Like last year. Never thought I’d see that.
You can change all those crash walls to steel mesh if you want. If it rains that much again that quickly it will all flood again. Probably worse. Your McMansions and “fishing (retention) ponds” are not helping anything.
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