Posted on 08/28/2017 7:23:47 AM PDT by yetidog
They could have used a Cajun Navy in Dunkirk.
We’re east of Houston and flooded everywhere. My grand daughter has a leaking roof, my son has water in the house and most of my co-workers are flooded in. We’ve spent the last 12 hours without power, but all were prepared for this. We have friends out with boats helping in the lower areas now. Texans will survive.
This is being forwarded all over Facebook.
I saw the interview where LH tried to get Governor Abbott to point fingers, and he SHUT HIM DOWN. It was great!
Agree regarding national media; however local media has served the community well.
They had one. Mostly Brits, but I suspect a few expat Frenchmen were involved. I mean, if you owned a fishing (or other vessel) capable of traversing the English Channel, and the Nazis were coming, would you wanna stay in France or go bunk with your Brit compatriots???
Yeah, but the dikes failed because the people living immediately behind them didn't allow the dikes to be built as the Corps of Engineers wanted.
The original design was the concrete wall, which was supposed to be backed by an earthen berm. The folks whose property would have been condemned to build the berm pissed and moaned enough that the CoE just built the concrete part.
When the hurricane tide began to splash over the top, it washed out the footing behind the concrete wall, which then collapsed "inwards".
If the earth berm had been present, the oversplash would have simply flowed smoothly down the slope of the berm, dissipating the gravitational energy that caused the washout.
Thought it was highly ironic that Dan Rather’s old station, KHOU-TV, flooded. Someone thought it would be great idea to build the studios next to one of the largest bayous in Houston; KHOU even has floodgates as part of their complex.
At last report, they were broadcasting from a conference room on the second floor of their building; the studios at ground level are underwater.
The standard design for development requires finish floor slab elevations to be 18-inches above the FEMA designated 100-year frequency storm water surface elevation.
New development requires the developer to provide storm water detention volume equal to one acre-feet for each acre of development. The 100 year frequency rainfall per 24-hours is 12 inches. Parts of Harris County had 30-inches of rainfall in only two days!
This approaches likely a 500 year frequency event (catastrophe)!!
Lester was doing his report on the flooding and about 10 minutes he launched back to the Trump/Russia falsehood.
What a tool.
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