I'm threading the needle travel-wise...leaving from SE Tennessee in the morning and getting as far as Vicksburg, then getting up REAL early Sunday morning to finish the over-and-down back to Houston. Not getting anywhere near I-10.
Sea Speed said:Cromagnum said:
Found out my brother in law is taking his travel trailer from Austin today to go to Alabama. He's not worried about the situation at all.
Wifes brother or sisters husband? Someone married in to a family with some not so bright folks.
Sea Speed said:Cromagnum said:
Found out my brother in law is taking his travel trailer from Austin today to go to Alabama. He's not worried about the situation at all.
Wifes brother or sisters husband? Someone married in to a family with some not so bright folks.
ChemAg15 said:Sea Speed said:Cromagnum said:
Found out my brother in law is taking his travel trailer from Austin today to go to Alabama. He's not worried about the situation at all.
Wifes brother or sisters husband? Someone married in to a family with some not so bright folks.
I mean... what's the worst that could happen?
Sea Speed said:
He is taking a travel trailer so it's not the getting there that is the issue, its the staying.
Sea Speed said:
He is taking a travel trailer so it's not the getting there that is the issue, its the staying.
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one I heard better than the Ike Dike was to build a levee all along 146. Just elevate 146 to drive on top of the levee. Looks like it is too late for that. Damn shame because it wouldn't have added too much more on top of the 146 project going on now. Damn short sighted fools.AgLiving06 said:
We are rolling the dice with all the delays on the Ike Dike.
I do a fair amount of work for the Corps, and looking ahead and outside of the defined project area is very far from their strong suit. They have been building and rebuilding and shifting and moving levees along the Mississippi for decades and they still manage to flood somewhere unexpected nearly every time.AgLiving06 said:
With the amount of studying the Army Corp has done, surely they are figuring out issues and mitigations.
Either way, Let's be very happy that Laura and Ida missed Texas...we'd be in real trouble.
It sounds like they have changed a lot of their plans and are revisiting some of the things they had dismissed, like buyouts and possibly bypass tunnels to reduce the amount of channel widening that would be required upstream of downtown. Lizzie Fletcher (yes, I know) hosted a town hall with the head of the Galveston Corps and it does sound like they have listened to a lot of the comments on their previous interim report and are taking them seriously in looking at the project with new eyes. We will see how it all turns out..htxag09 said:
Well a lot of their studying has shown that Buffalo bayou was a waste of money and they want to rip out the park and widen it. Not agreeing or disagreeing l, just stating what they want. Though I do agree that Buffalo bayou hasn't held up to the weather near what it was touted to.
Also, I don't think any of those plans involved widening where Buffalo bayou and white oak bayou meet. So not sure what good the project would do anyway.
Makes you wonder if Laura and Delta were sobering events.txags92 said:It sounds like they have changed a lot of their plans and are revisiting some of the things they had dismissed, like buyouts and possibly bypass tunnels to reduce the amount of channel widening that would be required upstream of downtown. Lizzie Fletcher (yes, I know) hosted a town hall with the head of the Galveston Corps and it does sound like they have listened to a lot of the comments on their previous interim report and are taking them seriously in looking at the project with new eyes. We will see how it all turns out..htxag09 said:
Well a lot of their studying has shown that Buffalo bayou was a waste of money and they want to rip out the park and widen it. Not agreeing or disagreeing l, just stating what they want. Though I do agree that Buffalo bayou hasn't held up to the weather near what it was touted to.
Also, I don't think any of those plans involved widening where Buffalo bayou and white oak bayou meet. So not sure what good the project would do anyway.
Honestly, I don't think that was it. There was a lot of rigidity in the initial work the corps did, and it was all focused on what was necessary to protect the Addicks and Barker reservoirs from being overfilled again. So their primary design parameter was to allow enough flow down Buffalo Bayou to avoid flooding everybody downstream if they were releasing at max flow from the reservoirs. I think the commentary they got back was that those reservoirs existed to keep from flooding downtown Houston and that Houstonians placed a higher value than the Corps understood on the nature and habitat along Buffalo Bayou in Terry Hershey park and elsewhere along the bayou.Beat40 said:Makes you wonder if Laura and Delta were sobering events.txags92 said:It sounds like they have changed a lot of their plans and are revisiting some of the things they had dismissed, like buyouts and possibly bypass tunnels to reduce the amount of channel widening that would be required upstream of downtown. Lizzie Fletcher (yes, I know) hosted a town hall with the head of the Galveston Corps and it does sound like they have listened to a lot of the comments on their previous interim report and are taking them seriously in looking at the project with new eyes. We will see how it all turns out..htxag09 said:
Well a lot of their studying has shown that Buffalo bayou was a waste of money and they want to rip out the park and widen it. Not agreeing or disagreeing l, just stating what they want. Though I do agree that Buffalo bayou hasn't held up to the weather near what it was touted to.
Also, I don't think any of those plans involved widening where Buffalo bayou and white oak bayou meet. So not sure what good the project would do anyway.
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Just waiting for the looting to get started in a few days...Cromagnum said:
People are partying it up on Bourbon St right now.