Posted on 01/13/2005 1:46:05 PM PST by Columbus Dawg
Those areas need to be concerned about the sewer system, especially at OSU. It is so clogged up from beer cans and bottles dating back many years.
The way things are going in Franklin County, the Republican Party could use any help they can get.
I just checked the 7-day forecast. It won't get above freezing after tomorrow for the next week. 9*F on Saturday morning.
Go back and read Godzilla's post. The Corps constantly watches the weather and rainfall to adjust outflow to provide room for future rain events. With all the dams they manage it's a full time operation to allow for what happens downstream if they release too much water from all the dams at once.
They normally lower water levels behind dams at the end of the year to the winter pool level. That provides the storage capacity for snowmelt and spring rains to prevent or lessen flooding. Even if a record rainfall event happens, each dam has a secondary/emergency spillway to pass the flow from a standard project flood without the water overtopping the dam and destroying it.
Didn't know there were dams in the area.
Was just up there Christmas. Snow made getting around very difficult.
Did make it up to Powell, to the Powder Room.
What about around Cambridge and I-70. That is a low spot.
Did you ever read the James Thurber short story "The Day the Dam Broke"? It tells of a time in 1913 when people thought MISTAKENLY that the dam west of Columbus had broken. The story actually is pretty funny.
No kidding. I'm unfortunate enough to attend OSU, and I feel like burning my clothes every day when I get home from classes.
Dacatur and Fort Wayne are in trouble. I also heard that Alexandria and Anderson were having some flooding.
I know everthing is flooded between Delaware and Marion. You have to go to Delaware to get to Marion from Ashley. I wonder if things are as bad as they were in 59? That was a mess. It was in January also. I have great memories of skating down a sloping field where the water had left under the ice and the whole sheet fell and we could skate downhill a long way--right down to the river. We lived on property that connected to the Delaware Dam area--near the rifle range.
Hey, small world. My first house was on the KY River near Frankfort, at a little river town called Clifton. We got flooded out reeeal good one year. I'll never live on a river bank again. I wondered why a large 2-story house on a nice acre of land with a private dock was only $50K...well turns out there was a reason.
Hey, my Republican son is down at OSU campus now! Don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water!
You and my son can commiserate and burn your clothes together!
My sister lives in Versailles, or rather just out of it a ways. She teaches at UK Frankfort. Just got off the phone with her..........has her eye on the risin' river. I never understood why she moved out of her luxury condo to that little fishing shack. Then, again, perhaps I do understand. We both treasure our privacy and freedom. We live on 40 forested acres in the middle of the Black Hills in So. Dak. She has rising water and we have a winter storm warning. It's supposed to be about 20 below here tonight, with snow and wind. But, I would live nowhere else.........nor would she.
That's where I lived, right outside of Versailles. It's a real nice place except every 10 - 12 years when it floods.
What about around Cambridge and I-70. That is a low spot.
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I was wondering the same thing...I live just outside of Marietta, on a HILL! I'll get trapped in but not flooded out.
See, there's a silver lining in every cloud.
"If Clintonville, OSU, Victorian Village and German Village are washed away, that would mean alot fewer DimoRat votes in Franklin County :^)"
AND.......it would all be Bush's fault. ;-)
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