2011 Mississippi River Spring Floods

[CajunRed]

Hard to believe that water in the basin is down over 5 feet from it's high. Level in Henderson Lake is plummeting down at the rate of 4 inches a day. Today's level... 14.54 feet.

igeaux.mobi

[zephyr]

_ THIS IS MY LAST POST. No wonder you people can't get any support outside the 12 square block area of UL. You have managed to make fun of & belittle every single person I can think of who dwells outside the city limits of Lafayette. Yet you act like you're too good to carry the name Lafayette as part of the title of your school. You people are absolutely wonderful. It's the rest of the freaking planet that's all screwed up. Not only are they screwed up, they are out to get you, you, & only you. _

Does this mean you're off the bandwagon?

[that guy]

_ Does this mean you're off the bandwagon? _

but what will the rest of the bandwagoners do without their king???
haha

[zephyr]

_ but what will the rest of the bandwagoners do without their king???
haha _

Well, at least he was on and off a lot quicker than the Carolina Panther bandwagon he had to preach about.

[Boomer]

_ THIS IS MY LAST POST. No wonder you people can't get any support outside the 12 square block area of UL. You have managed to make fun of & belittle every single person I can think of who dwells outside the city limits of Lafayette. Yet you act like you're too good to carry the name Lafayette as part of the title of your school. You people are absolutely wonderful. It's the rest of the freaking planet that's all screwed up. Not only are they screwed up, they are out to get you, you, & only you. _

Well let me just say that you are very welcomed here in my book-----That is the fun of this whole damn thing---state your opinions and you risk the chance of being proven an idiot or a genius-----Obviously you have a lot to offer----Please don't stop posting--come to the games---greaux by the oak ---and Geaux Cajuns!!!!!!

[NewsCopy]

NEW ORLEANS â?? The final gate on the Morganza Spillway is being closed Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At the height of the threat of flooding from the Mississippi River, 17 gates were...

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Crowley Post-Signal

[NewsCopy]

What was supposed to be a temporary fix to hold back fold waters in St. Martin and St. Mary Parish may become permanent. Parish officials want the Bayou Chene barge to stay put.


St. Martin Parish President, Guy Cormier, said, "I would venture to say 75 to 80 percent of the homes would have received some type of flood damage. This one project prevented all that."
The Bayou Chene project was a temporary dam built in June. The dam is made of steel sheet piling, rocks and a 20-thousand ton barge.

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KATC

[Bandwagon King]

So then it won't matter whether I read the book or not. If I don't take away the company line, then I'm wrong & there is no way the author of the book can be questioned. It seems I was called a total fool & idiot last year for questioning how the river control structure works & what parameters are use to make those decisions to open & close the fllod gates. I was told I was an ididot for stating that the flow rates of the river are estimates & are not absolute indisputable numbers, yet every day I could go to the Corps of engineers site & they would arbitrarily change the flow rate estimates that they had figured the day before or for the last two days or the past week. Whatever it took to suit their needs is what the flow rate "estimsate" became. Yet I was constantly harranged by some who saw the numbers being changed on an almost daily basis, but I had the problem. Now you want me to read another work with I'm sure what will have some truth & redeeeming value to it, but may not be a complete validation of past events from every perspective. Yet when I ask what your reaction will be if I question it, or have problems with certain parts of it for whatever reason, you say you will judge me to be incompetent no matter what I question.

Yet I am supposed to at this point WASTE my time reading something that I should have NO RIGHT to disagree with in any way? But I would be the close minded one if I did? On the other hand I'm close minded if I don't. Is this the complete method of education for everyone at the University of Louisiana? Either you fall in line every day on every issue or we will brow beat you into submitting that we are right, because in our little world we make the rules & that is the way it is? Wasn't that the heart of the issue that was the root cause of UL's trouble to begin with? It's funny how the apples don't fall very far from the tree.

[Turbine]

I was correct in my forecasts both on dates & times of the riever crests to within 3 inches at Butte Larose & less than a day a week before the crest. & within 1/4" at Morgan City yet no one on this site had the courage to come back & say for whatever reason I was correct even though the record shows I was. I was absolutely correct on the flow rate estimates, even though no one who disputed my thinking had the courage to come on the site & set the record straight for fear that they would have to admit it. I have no doubt there will be someone who will find a point I may have been incorrect & dispute that until the cows come home to try to crucify my credibility.

Since this thread is about Chop(s) credit where credit is due.

I will say kyle's predictions on what was going to happen were pretty much 100% accurate.

[CharlieK]

It's when he strayed from predictions based on what he was seeing to explanations about how the river structure works and how open channel flow works that he got off track. No big deal, complex topics. Except he couldn't let it go. Again he missed the point then, much like now. Texas? The KKK? Really?