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Most Likely Mega-Disaster to Occur

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1921597; said:
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NOTHING stops the Southern Bloviation!!!
 
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Morganza spillway scheduled to be opened somewhere around 2:30 central time.

Sometime between Wednesday and Friday of this coming week the flood waters should be at least visible from the office where I work.

There should be enough levees and natural high spots between there and my house to keep me dry.
Now it's time to sit back and play the waiting game.

Hoping for the best.
If Houma goes under (even if just widespread street flooding) for an extended period of time, it could get ugly for a lot of people and businesses down here.

Morgan City is right in the bulls eye for this thing.
Their floodwall should prevent any catastrophic flooding. But if it gets really bad, I don't know if that town can make it back from something like this.
 
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Tonyank;1921989; said:
Breaking News
Live: Army engineers discuss possibility of opening the Morganza spillway to spare Baton Rouge, New Orleans from flooding
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Yeah. Just so folks know, it is not really the "option" some are making it out to be. Without the relief from Morganza, the pressure of the flooded river will breach the levees somewhere along the river - at unexpected sites - with massive flooding. And if it breaches the west side of the river levees, the river would flood the Atchafalaya basin anyway, but instead of the Morganza route (which is largely uninhabited) it would force a path through more populated areas until it reached the Atchafalaya.

The choice is not flood or not flood, the choice is controlled flooding versus uncontrolled flooding. We are going to f-ing flood!!!

And if not opened, the River would overtop the spillway by a few feel in any event. While there is a lot of talk of not flooding N'Awlins and BR, the Corp's main mission is to not let the River break through at the Old River control station and find it's shorter route to the gulf.

Everything else is lagniappe.
 
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well, the 1st gate has been opened.

streaming video available HERE.

sounds like they're only going to open 25% of the Morganza.
that bodes well for me. all of the original projections were for 50%.

one gate today, then 2-3 more gates tomorrow until they get it up to about 25% of it's capacity.
river crest is expected to come on or around May 22nd, and last for 8-10 days. Spillway will remain open until after the crest is complete.
At that time they will survey what is happening, and determine when it is best to close it.

latest report is that due to the slower opening, they're saying 192 hours (8 days) before we see water in Houma.

Once it gets here, it will stick around for a while.
it will all have to be pumped out through our forced drainage systems.
 
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