Re: Go ahead & bust my chops.
I've got news for you pal. There were things about the river control structrue that the people giving the orders didn't know until history took effect. That's why the predictions were so wildly inacurrate. That's why half of South Louisiana has sand bags stacked where water levels went down. Now figure out how I'm the only one who wasn't exactly right about everything.Originally Posted by charliek
Since we're getting off topic again there's another thing that no one knew nor could all those pretending to be in the know, explain to me simply because they didn't know or have a clue. It didn't really matter when they closed the flood gates once the atchafalya crested & started going down because it proved by level that the Atchafalaya & the Wax Lake Outlet were well capable of outflowing the Mississippi River. No one knew this & certainly no one banked on it or talked about it happeneing, or else somebody made a LOT of unnecessary money on sand bags & selling dirt to the Corps & several parrishes & making a lot of poor people in Stephensville & points South evacuate unnecessarily.
Furthermore, it also proves the theory that if the river ever does try to change course the Corps has the situation well under control, because when they opened those flood gates & allowed what happened to occur, they actually did cause the river to artificially change its course & it woked without a hitch. Now, you haven't heard anyone else say that even though that was an obvious outcome of what was accpomplished. I also seem to remember folks talking about the gates having to be ketp open well into the fall & that there was still a massive danger of water upstream causing secondary & other later cresting which never occured & which I predicted to 100% accuracy would NOT occur. I also recall being the first & only one to predict that Stephensville would NOT flood, but rather have lower than normal levels. But I was the idiot questioning the system.
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