Facilities and financial update from Jamie Pollard
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100 year flood doesn't mean a flood every 100 years. It means during a given year, there is a one percent chance of it flooding at a certain elevation.But that was a 100 year flood so we are good for another 90+ years.
(and yes I know that is a natural recurring probability but with more runoff, etc. the likelihood of a recurrence is more like 20-30 years.)
And what engineers messed up when they built the football stadium?
BIG shout out to donors that left their donations with the AD regardless of games.
I am really curious how the flood plain map looks like in that district as determined by the Federal Government.
I'd bet they DON'T have a liquor store. That would take money away from bars/restaurants/hotels within the district. I'm sure a hotel would offer a pantry like most hotels do anymore, but only for hotel guests. It seems like anything along the lines of a gas station/convenience store would be making less money (and less sales tax) than bars/restaurants/hotels, on very valuable real estate. People that want cheap booze will still go to one of the other handful of liquor stores on the way into their tailgates.
I can't think of anything better than filling up on 10 pounds of carbs, stumbling into the parking lot, taking down a 30 rack and then standing in the sun for 4 hours.
Without a doubt parking is going to be a problem in the future for football games, so now is the time to start thinking ahead and planning for it. We have limited space around the stadium without much opportunity to grow.
So how about allowing stadium Saturday parking at the West towers with a shuttle to bring people down to the stadium. We already do not allow students to park around the stadium during FB games, so moving them out of the West towers parking lot should not be that big of a deal.
TCU and Baylor run a very efficient shuttle system to get fans down to their stadiums, have been on both, ISU can do the same for the West towers and the Northern part of the campus.
So how about allowing stadium Saturday parking at the West towers with a shuttle to bring people down to the stadium. We already do not allow students to park around the stadium during FB games, so moving them out of the West towers parking lot should not be that big of a deal.
TCU and Baylor run a very efficient shuttle system to get fans down to their stadiums, have been on both, ISU can do the same for the West towers and the Northern part of the campus.
Obviously this is a much smaller version but it you have been to the Star in Frisco the cowboys literally built an entertainment district around their practice facility and offices and I always was amazed by that. Curious and excited to see how our smaller version plays out.
Would make sense to also use Ames Middle School for people West of Ames.
From someone that had to deal with the flooding issues back in '93 down by the old Save-U-More, the flood waters started to recede once the water started going over the bring on I-35. I don't know if the bigger bridges or the flood mitigation along the Ioway Creek will completely resolve the issue though. Talk about Ames almost being landlocked back then.
We just went to Tip-Top as there was nothing else we could do as had moved all our equipment out of our storage shed at 6 am the morning of the flood. Our storage shed was supposed to be built up out of the floodplain. We just set stakes in the ground every hour as the waters kept rising. It got to about 5' from our office building basement entry. I wanna say they closed I-35 around noon and by 2 pm it started going over the bridge. Our storage shed stayed dry.
We just went to Tip-Top as there was nothing else we could do as had moved all our equipment out of our storage shed at 6 am the morning of the flood. Our storage shed was supposed to be built up out of the floodplain. We just set stakes in the ground every hour as the waters kept rising. It got to about 5' from our office building basement entry. I wanna say they closed I-35 around noon and by 2 pm it started going over the bridge. Our storage shed stayed dry.
Except now everything upstream from Saylorville looks like a nuclear test site. Saylorville Lake was the worst thing the Army Corps of Engineers could have done. But hey, at least all the people who live outside their means have a place to enjoy their ski boats and jet skis until the bank repos them.
I think the impact of Center Drive on the Hilton flood is often overlooked. The fact that Center Drive is built on a large berm turns the Hilton/Scheman area into a bowl. Water came in from the north and east, but couldn't flow out to the south at a rate fast enough to avoid flooding. If the Center Drive berm wasn't there (or if massive pumping had been used to "empty the bowl"), I doubt Hilton would have flooded.
P.S. In 2010, I went to the area and noted the "rush" of water coming through the walking tunnels under Center Drive. I thought they must have pumps in place. Nope. It was just the "rush" of water coming from water pressure inside the "bowl" around Hilton.
As I've heard Pollard talk about it, he describes it more as "controlling our own destiny." We have an opportunity to build a big revenue-generating district that most schools don't have.
The people of Lake Dehli in eastern Iowa say, "we went from a penthouse to an outhouse in a matter of a few hours".
