Most Likely Mega-Disaster to Occur

[Muck]

Hey, are those terrorists bombing the American heartland? Nope, that's just the Army Corp of Engineers blowing up our own shit. Judges just gave them the OK.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/judge-gives-corps-ok-929317.html

This should end well.

Here's a helpful tip:

DON'T BUILD YOUR HOUSE IN A FLOOD PLAIN!!!

Problem solved.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

More...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/weather-flooding-levee-idUSN0221277620110502

 

[BUCKYLE]

The only thing I'm getting from these articles is that New Orleans is a doomed city, that southerners are hated by God, and that...or maybe because they elect people that say shit like...

?We anticipate that all of the river casinos will close at some point as the pig goes down the python,? said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour

That came from a fucking Governor? God damned rednecks.

 

[Dryden]

Done.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/weather-flooding-levee-idUSN0221277620110503

UPDATE 5-US blows up flood levee on Mississippi River

May 2 (Reuters) - Flames shot up and a loud boom was heard on Monday as the U.S. government blew a hole in a Mississippi River flood levee in a bid to save several towns in Illinois and Kentucky from being inundated.

A witness said water began to pour out of the hole after the explosion and is expected to eventually flood some 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares) of farmland in Missouri in order to spare the towns.

The deliberate destruction of the levee after nightfall and during a driving rain, ended days of debate and legal wrangling over how to cope with the rising flood waters of the Mississippi and nearby Ohio river.

Carlin Bennett, a commissioner in the rural Missouri county that will bear the brunt of the flooding, estimated the U.S. government action will cause $1 billion in property damage.

Now keep an eye on Memphis. Officials there are admitting original estimates of the river crest could have been off by as much as three feet since the rain across the midwest has not stopped, and does not appear that it'll stop for another week.

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-memphis-mississippi-river-flood-walls,0,6418452.story

 

[buckeyebri]

Here's a helpful tip:

DON'T BUILD YOUR HOUSE IN A FLOOD PLAIN!!!

Problem solved.

Damn son what a concept.....most folks would rather build where they want then sue someone, like the Corp of Engineers, when disasters happen......Can't wait for my taxes to bail em out....

 

[Gatorubet]

Damn son what a concept.....most folks would rather build where they want then sue someone, like the Corp of Engineers, when disasters happen......Can't wait for my taxes to bail em out....

The bucket of ignorance in that statement is slopping over the edges full. If the next natural disaster happens to takes out your property, I hope the Tea party won't have convinced everyone not to provide aid to you after it happens.

I'd still rather have you getting help...even if you felt like a hypocrite accepting it.

 

[Muck]

If the next natural disaster happens to takes out your property, I hope the Tea party won't have convinced everyone not to provide aid to you after it happens.

There's a large gap between 'act of god' natural disaster & building on an active volcano.

Building new homes in a known flood plain is much closer to the latter.

 

[buckeyebri]

The bucket of ignorance in that statement is slopping over the edges full. If the next natural disaster happens to takes out your property, I hope the Tea party won't have convinced everyone not to provide aid to you after it happens.

I'd still rather have you getting help...even if you felt like a hypocrite accepting it.

Right on cue Gator.....

I guess I choose not to build or locate my residence in areas that are "prone" to these types of natural disasters....Tornadoes, Hurricanes, different story. But, to build where history continues to show that bad things can happen to you, like in a flood plain is just moronic.

Almost every year without fail, the Grand River floods when the winter melt and spring rains come and people have to have their houses cleaned up, get rescued, you know those annoying little things that occur when you leave in areas like that. This persuaded the area leaders to look into buying out the folks who lived along the river to minimize the cost to the community in recovery dollars and insurance payouts....

but hey excuse my ignorance on the cost and subject.....stupid is as stupid does....

 

[AKAK]

So, I was thinking... I found a nice little sand bar near galveston to build a cottage...

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

So, I was thinking... I found a nice little sand bar near galveston to build a cottage...

Allow me to recommend a builder for you.

 

[exhawg]

If you are going to build a house someplace like that ^^^^^^^^ I don't know why you would build with anything other than reinforced concrete with steel shutters and the whole ground floor of one giant garage that can be sealed up like a boat. Even the house that survived looks like it took major damage.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

If you are going to build a house someplace like that ^^^^^^^^ I don't know why you would build with anything other than reinforced concrete with steel shutters and the whole ground floor of one giant garage that can be sealed up like a boat. Even the house that survived looks like it took major damage.

Seal up the ground floor like a boat, and the storm surge will carry it away....like a boat. That house survived because it is on sturdy stilts and the storm surge ran right under it. Cool pic I rememebered from Ike.

 

[Gatorubet]

Right on cue Gator.....

I guess I choose not to build or locate my residence in areas that are "prone" to these types of natural disasters....Tornadoes, Hurricanes, different story. But, to build where history continues to show that bad things can happen to you, like in a flood plain is just moronic.

Almost every year without fail, the Grand River floods when the winter melt and spring rains come and people have to have their houses cleaned up, get rescued, you know those annoying little things that occur when you leave in areas like that. This persuaded the area leaders to look into buying out the folks who lived along the river to minimize the cost to the community in recovery dollars and insurance payouts....

but hey excuse my ignorance on the cost and subject.....stupid is as stupid does....

Yes. People build in areas specifically to do what they want knowing that they can sue the Corp of Engineers - that has specific statutory immunity from any negligence in designing or building flood protection systems. Which was one of the points of your post.

Other than the disaster in New Orleans, I can't think of any other litigation suing the Corp for anything. So maybe you were not referencing my neighbors and friends, but...

And you might want to look at the historic Ohio and Mississippi River flood plains on a map. Your brush is a little too broad.

Here is just the Mississippi.

 

[buckeyebri]

Yes. People build in areas specifically to do what they want knowing that they can sue the Corp of Engineers - that has specific statutory immunity from any negligence in designing or building flood protection systems. Which was one of the points of your post.

Other than the disaster in New Orleans, I can't think of any other litigation suing the Corp for anything. So maybe you were not referencing my neighbors and friends, but...

And you might want to look at the historic Ohio and Mississippi River flood plains on a map. Your brush is a little too broad.

Here is just the Mississippi.

I think you are the one that is painting with a broad brush here. I actually know a thing or two about floodplains since I deal with them from time to time in my job. But hey, I probably don't as much as you.

There are categories of flood plains, say for example 100 year and 500 year flood events. Inherently this means some of these areas will flood more often than others.

Some of these even carry different levels of Flood Insurance based on risk. Go fucking figure, eh. So when you build in the area that is more prone to the event chances are good that you may experience such an event. Wow, what a concept.

Now like the Grand River and the good folks I was referencing who go back year after year just to be flooded out and bailed out the next year, something has to make you go hmmmm. Really, how often do insurance carriers have to pay out and local municipalities have to provide services to these folks? Hey, there is no cost in any of this right?

So hey, build wherever the fuck you want and just wait for the good old government and insurance companies to bail your ass out....Take absolutely no responsibility in anyway, shape, or form for the decision you made on where to build and live, because here in good old America we will rescue you from your decision.....

And you don't think that blowing the levees and flooding all those acres of farmlands and so on is going to cost anything and no one is going to blame the corp for any of that.....right!

 

[BUCKYLE]

So hey, build wherever the fuck you want and just wait for the good old government and insurance companies to bail your ass out....Take absolutely no responsibility in anyway, shape, or form for the decision you made on where to build and live, because here in good old America we will rescue you from your decision.....

Um...if insurance companies accept the premiums for a fucking policy they issue...they can eat a dick all day. They sure as fuck aren't a victim here.