Tue
Jan 23 2007
08:48 am
Army Corps of Engineers: It's hard work.
By: bizgrrl

They warned you in November.

They are warning you again.

THE DAM MIGHT BREAK! Are you listening? I think they are out of disaster assistance funds.

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Eleanor A's picture

Hmmmmmmm. Anyone know if

Submitted by Eleanor A on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 9:44am.

Hmmmmmmm.

Anyone know if standard homeowners policies cover flooding?

Why am I getting visions of my neighbors standing on the roof with "HELP US" signs, while Brownie does a great job...?

WhitesCreek's picture

Yeah, sure...

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 9:54am.

Hey, who cares about endangering little towns downstream, like say Nashville. We're talking about getting people's quarter million dollar house boats stuck in the mud. And even worse...We're talking about messing up the fishing!

Dang!

Actually, this is just a scare tactic from those evil old scientists who have figured out that if you build a dam on top of limestone, and the water level rises, oh let's say, 240 Feet, then there's a lot of pressure forcing water down around the bottom of the dam and limestone like dissolves when you run acidic water over it, and...

...and they're gonna squirt grout into a hole and call it fixed?

Hmmm...

Steve

rikki's picture

whap-a

Submitted by rikki on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 4:28pm.

There was a draw down of Chilhowee Lake last month to inspect the earthen berm that joins Chilhowee Dam to the shore. The berm settled in one spot. Are we entering an era where TVA dams will start to show their age and require expensive repairs (or cause catastrophes)?

Something tells me the hundreds of billions we've spent fighting medieval cave dwellers is only going to look more and more foolish as the years pass.

But, hey, drowning in silt is better than being forced to learn Farsi and replace all our church steeples with minarets, which is totally about to happen. It's part of the second one hundred hour plan the Democrats are going to announce in tonight's SOTU response. Mandatory printing of newspapers in Farsi will be part of the We Hate America, Praise Allah (WHAPA) Act.

Number9's picture

Paging Bob Corker...

Submitted by Number9 on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 4:33pm.

Don't worry, Jim Haslam has Pilot Stations in harms way. Bob will get the money.

Eleanor A's picture

News flash: Wolf Creek Dam

Submitted by Eleanor A on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 4:42pm.

News flash: Wolf Creek Dam is in Kentucky. So you better be sending those campaign contributions to Mitch McConnell if you'd like to avoid taking scuba diving lessons.

Oh wait...nobody is going to want to spend any money to save Nashville, because by building it here, in a place that's bound to suffer environmental catastrophe, we're asking for it, aren't we? Even though the city was established well before anyone was discussing building these dams?

I seriously am concerned that this is the precedent that has now been set for hazards to major U.S. metropolitan areas.

R. Neal's picture

Maybe we should abandon

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 4:43pm.

Maybe we should abandon Nashville. Or at least run all the poor people out of town, bulldoze their homes, and build luxury condos.

rikki's picture

nobody is going to want to

Submitted by rikki on Tue, 2007/01/23 - 4:55pm.

nobody is going to want to spend any money to save Nashville, because by building it here, in a place that's bound to suffer environmental catastrophe, we're asking for it, aren't we?

That's a mind-numbingly poor analogy.

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