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Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:19 pm to Halftrack
When that old river control structure fails it’s gonna be an interesting day.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:21 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
It seems like this is the most likely and most frightening. Unfortunately, it’s the most predictable, and has been for decades.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:25 pm to Halftrack
Like everything else, there will be winners and losers. It'll be happy days for the baws in civil engineering and contracting. East Central Louisiana will boom. For a while Natchez-Vidalia-Ferriday will be the center of the universe.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:25 pm to White Roach
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The incident with the barge during Katrina was in the Lower Ninth Ward. The Industrial Canal I that area had a levee with a floodwall on top of it. The floodwall failed. Whether that was the result of overtopping and erosion, the loose barge striking the floodwall or a combination of the two, I'm not sure.
Landed on a school bus.
This post was edited on 2/22/19 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:26 pm to TDsngumbo
I think that’s why they kicked the kids off the Indian Mounds
If they can keep the Mounds high enough, they will be able to see when the river is coming, and have time to evacuate
LSU is proactive when it comes to climate considerations. Cal-Berkeley could learn a thing or two
If they can keep the Mounds high enough, they will be able to see when the river is coming, and have time to evacuate
LSU is proactive when it comes to climate considerations. Cal-Berkeley could learn a thing or two
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:28 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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This post was edited on 2/22/19 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:30 pm to nola000
What do y’all think happens to the national economy if that station fails?
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:32 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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When that old river control structure fails it’s gonna be an interesting day.
It'll never happen
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:32 pm to TigerFanatic99
quote:Why not?
It'll never happen
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:35 pm to contraryman
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Don’t know about what would happen, but Mark Wahlberg would star in the movie.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:43 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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What do y’all think happens to the national economy if that station fails?
The Port of South Louisiana handles 60% of midwest grain exports. I'm not including the port of New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
The city of New Orleans would lose its fresh water source.
Let's just say, it would be a hell of an economic shock.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:46 pm to brian_wilson
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I work with a bunch of people in minnesota. She has almost 4 feet of snow on her lawn, which is an insane amount. She suggested it won't melt until April though
My best friend lives in the Olympic Peninsula and they've had more snow than many of the old-timers can remember.
I watched a program a few years back about the shifting pattern of polar vortexes caused by rising global temperatures or possibly just natural Earth cycles on the order of eons.
Such a thing could cause real problems for people in south Louisiana. All the control structures and levees are designed for what we know about Mississippi River flow garnered over the past couple hundred years. If long-term weather patterns shift that infrastructure can become obsolete and create a huge disaster. Hopefully this happens slowly enough for ACE to adjust but it seems like we're already walking a fine line and skirting disaster.
Typical government inefficiency and oversight.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:47 pm to Duke
The cynic in me thinks that those investing in the chem plants wouldn’t do so unless they believed that it would hold. But then again didn’t Murphy oil in N.O. Flood? Then again that’s small potatoes compared to what’s South of BR. frick, I don’t know, lol.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:47 pm to Duke
My late brother married a girl who lived on River Road somewhere around Darrow I think. The levee broke around 1980-82 (?) and they lost their house. So it definitely has happened.
Edit- 1983- Darrow- not sure if the house was destroyed or if they just got paid to move or something. I think the latter.
This 700 ft section of levee slid into the east side of the Mississippi River on August 23, 1983 at Darrow, in Ascension
Parish, Louisiana. The slide occured shortly after a high water stage had receded, suggesting that toe undercutting and
rapid drawdown likely contributed to the failure.
Edit- 1983- Darrow- not sure if the house was destroyed or if they just got paid to move or something. I think the latter.
This 700 ft section of levee slid into the east side of the Mississippi River on August 23, 1983 at Darrow, in Ascension
Parish, Louisiana. The slide occured shortly after a high water stage had receded, suggesting that toe undercutting and
rapid drawdown likely contributed to the failure.
This post was edited on 2/23/19 at 7:04 am
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:47 pm to tigeraddict
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a break south of the BR (L'auberge area) would possibly result in the river flowing that old pathway to the amite....
Where do y'all come up with this shite? Bayou Manchac was a distributary of the Mississippi at the time of European settlement. It took flow from the Mississippi almost continually. Any break in the levee south of BR is a temporary break until the river drops back down to low conditions and allows for repair. It's a relief valve. It's not a permanent home.
Edit: I'll keep what I wrote, but I think I may have misread your comment as it being a permanent diversion. On second reading I don't think that's what you mean. My bad.
This post was edited on 2/22/19 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:52 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Why not?
Its too critical and would be too devastating. This isn't a levy at a random point in the city, but a well known control structure. Visibility is too high. The corp will not let it fail.
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:55 pm to White Roach
Considering that every single outfall canal in Orleans Parish had a levee failure, on both sides, if I had to guess, I would say was a subsidence failure from negligent construction and not a barge incident
Posted on 2/22/19 at 6:57 pm to TDsngumbo
Read a flood map, baw
Posted on 2/22/19 at 7:01 pm to TDsngumbo
Upriver, St. Louis region maybe
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