The Army’s Corps of Engineers – Your Tax Dollars At Work
Photo: Army Corps of Engineers
With all the rain the Midwest and north/south central states have been getting, the Army’s Corps of Engineers has been busy managing things like flood levels on the south end of Ole Miss. It’s still raining, with the flow coming up out of Texas and more from the eastern side of the Rockies. If you remember the disastrous dam break and flooding on the Niobrara River In Nebraska a few weeks ago, all that water volume went right into Ole Man River.
The most recent opening of the Bonne Carre spillway was early in May this year, after a February opening to ease the water volume over to Lake Ponchatrain. https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_59a988de-7279-11e9-9497-8b44741b6811.html
The attached article is a good rendering of how they’re on the job with this, and how the impact is assessed on things that we take for granted, such as wetlands and shrimp beds.
The flooding is not over yet. The popular fishing pond that I go to for photographing ducks and geese is full now, and the overflow drain redirecting water into Lake Michigan is swamped. But the rainbows are biting and people are enjoying that hobby again.
Photo by Ex-PH2
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Army
Those Ducks look real and I’ll bet they are not Quacks.
M R Ducks
M R Not
M R Too
C M Wangs
L I B…M R Ducks
Ed,
At FIRST, I thought you and Jeff were making small Swabbie Talks…
Then I found it. Smile:
LOL!! Been a long time since I saw that.
Mother Nature, just like the King of Battle, is quite efficient at breaking things, both man made and created by nature. Those flood waters are akin to the rolling barrages sent up for when the boys went “Over the Top.” If it is built, it can be broke, someway,somehow.
My folks in Nebraska have areas that they still can’t get the seeds in the ground (usually done in March) because of the floods & damage.
These floods are one of the reasons that a lot of heavily populated areas we have now, were not heavily populated by the Native Americans. They knew that Old Man River, the Mighty Mo, and other waterways would eventually flood again.
mothernaturewins
I still recall the major flooding in 1993, when the Missouri and other rivers overloaded the Mississippi and the levies on Ole Miss broke, flooding the cornfields on both sides of the river.
Got to watch all of that on TV. Cows and hogs standing on the roofs of sheds – stuff like that.
Mother Nature is awesome in her awesomeness.
Mother nature is toying with us in southern AZ. Todays temps, low of 48, high is 82. That’s a big swing even in this area.
Try 105 day, 65 night. Saw that more than once when I lived in SE AZ.
Global flooding! Followed next year by Global Drying!
Dogs and cats sleeping together!!!
MUSKOGEE, OK: The US Batfish, a WWII Diesel Submarine, is afloat again thanks to flooding:
https://www.newson6.com/story/40525838/uss-batfish-floats-again-in-muskogee-flooding
Here’s another account of it:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/28167/midwest-flooding-re-floats-historic-wwii-submarine-for-the-first-time-in-decades
Learn something new today…
The USS Batfish…
Thank you, API, for sharing!
NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa
Batfish!
In early Louisiana, French explorers put up buildings where New Orleans is today. First heavy rain flooded the enterprise. French asked locals (AmerInds), “Does this area flood often?” Reply: “Only when it rains.” French forgot the rule “Always conduct recon,” which includes “Talk with the locals.”