2011 Mississippi River Spring Floods

[biged05]

The level at the Tech locks off the Calumet cut is over 8' now & 15' will breach the locks. I see no way that once the Teche locks are breached that Patterson to Berwick don't go under about 10' of water. I want someone to tell me I'm wrong. I need someone to tell me I'm wrong. Please present explanation with relief points where the river would find another access route to keep this occurance from happening. _

Calumet cut and a few other structures on the lower end of the basin are below the desired design grade, but we are flood fighting them. Plates have been welded onto most of the gates if not all, and sand bags and hesco baskets are being used to tie the structures into the levees on either side of them.

[CajunRed]

BigEd...this stuff is reeeaallly starting to scare me now.the first estimations seem to have been very much to the low side...and now they are recaculating and revising upwards. Now I am wondering if water will now top the BIG levee at Pat's in Henderson.

Please tell me I am wrong!!

Calumet cut and a few other structures on the lower end of the basin are below the desired design grade, but we are flood fighting them. Plates have been welded onto most of the gates if not all, and sand bags and hesco baskets are being used to tie the structures into the levees on either side of them.

igeaux.mobi

[biged05]

You're wrong. We will have sufficient freeboard there
igeaux.mobi

[CajunRed]

You're wrong. We will have sufficient freeboard there
igeaux.mobi

Thank you, Ed. This is freaking me...as I am sure, many others...out.



igeaux.mobi

[biged05]

_ Thank you, Ed. This is freaking me...as I am sure, many others...out.



igeaux.mobi _

Trust me I know the feeling. My stomach has been in knots for over a week now...just ask my wife!

[Bandwagon King]

_ Calumet cut and a few other structures on the lower end of the basin are below the desired design grade, but we are flood fighting them. Plates have been welded onto most of the gates if not all, and sand bags and hesco baskets are being used to tie the structures into the levees on either side of them. _

Thanks for your honesty, this is not the answer I was hoping for.

I am posting pictures of the Teche flood gate. the top of it is 15' it ties into the levee which rises to 21' on both sides & then has the sand bags on on it. I believe this will be ground zero & the place where a major breech would risk a few thousand hard headed people's lives at risk who are depending too much on their part of the levee system to pass & someone else's to fail.

[HelmutVII]

The first gate was opened today at 3:01 P.M. CST May 14, 2011

[CajunRed]

They're trying to wash us away...

igeaux.mobi

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[Bandwagon King]

_ The first gate was opened today at 3:01 P.M. CST May 14, 2011 _

Looked like they kept it closed as long as they could. It was only about 1-2' from topping the levee in most places.

[HelmutVII]

Barges get loose on the Mississippi and hit the 190 bridge in Baton Rouge. No damage to the bridge. If one of those barges would have hit a levee in a curve of the river it could have been a disaster.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/lat...at-bridge.html