RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 28, 2017 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2017 at 10:45 am by vorlon13.)
More math:
The Missouri River here (Omaha) had to carry ~40 cubic kilometers of water during our 100 day flood in 2011. Texas has had 3 times that much water in the last month!!
The Missouri River here is normally around 600 feet across, during 2011 it spread for miles to either side. And it did it for over 100 days. Texas has received enough rain this month to repeat our flood for nearly an entire year. It's just staggering how much water they have to deal with.
The amount of flood water in Texas is approximately equal to a 'worst case scenario' flood for the Missouri River system where Fort Peck, Garrison, and Oahe Dams all fail and unleash all their stored water at once.
This Texas flooding is absolutely epic in it's magnitude.
About the worst thing they could imagine in 2011 was for the levee surrounding Council Bluffs IA to fail and immediately inundate the city and leave 30,000 people refugees. That didn't happen, the levee system was reinforced and even the national guard patrolled it continuously all summer to protect it. Texas, OTOH, is living out that worst case scenario multiplied by "I don't know" how many more times.
The Missouri River here (Omaha) had to carry ~40 cubic kilometers of water during our 100 day flood in 2011. Texas has had 3 times that much water in the last month!!
The Missouri River here is normally around 600 feet across, during 2011 it spread for miles to either side. And it did it for over 100 days. Texas has received enough rain this month to repeat our flood for nearly an entire year. It's just staggering how much water they have to deal with.
The amount of flood water in Texas is approximately equal to a 'worst case scenario' flood for the Missouri River system where Fort Peck, Garrison, and Oahe Dams all fail and unleash all their stored water at once.
This Texas flooding is absolutely epic in it's magnitude.
About the worst thing they could imagine in 2011 was for the levee surrounding Council Bluffs IA to fail and immediately inundate the city and leave 30,000 people refugees. That didn't happen, the levee system was reinforced and even the national guard patrolled it continuously all summer to protect it. Texas, OTOH, is living out that worst case scenario multiplied by "I don't know" how many more times.
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