That looks like it’s going to be pretty bad.
That looks like it’s going to be pretty bad.
We are not as bad as Midland, but Columbus, OH has already set a record for rain in May. From noon on Monday to 8am on Tuesday we received 6.5" of rain. The rain looks to continue for the next couple days.
Have family there but looks like they're a bit outside of the evacuation zone at least.
Sounds like the vulnerabilities of this dam were well known.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...voked-failure-reinforce-structure/5226539002/
"The energy commission (FERC), which regulates U.S. power generation, notified the dam's previous owner as far back as 1999 that it needed to increase capacity of the Edenville dam's spillways to prevent a significant flood from overcoming the structure. FERC subsequently notified the dam's new owner, Boyce Hydro Power LLC, when the license transferred in 2004."
Didn't the dam upstream fail also? Just did a Google Satellite view and all the lake shore homes that were up and down all both dams. We survived he '93 floods in Ames but that seems to be a drop in the bucket when talking about 9' of water coming at you!
We had some water come up through the cement slab in the basement(groundwater is so high) but overall stayed dry. I live in UA it seems there is a lot of people that weren't so lucky. This is the 2nd major rainfall we have had in 2-months and we don't need anymore water.This Suuuuuuuccccckkkkkksssss. Hope your basement is staying dry. We sit high and never have water, but I found a small plate sized pool that had come up from the concrete yesterday.
Sounds like the vulnerabilities of this dam were well known.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...voked-failure-reinforce-structure/5226539002/
"The energy commission (FERC), which regulates U.S. power generation, notified the dam's previous owner as far back as 1999 that it needed to increase capacity of the Edenville dam's spillways to prevent a significant flood from overcoming the structure. FERC subsequently notified the dam's new owner, Boyce Hydro Power LLC, when the license transferred in 2004."
Having documented warnings going back 20 years isn't going to be good for them. Hope they are ready for 10 years of legal issues.
Do they have a nuclear plant there? Saw they have a cooling pond (not far from the river so that is freely flowing most likely).