Flood stage forecast to hit high Tuesday

Travis North of Finley covers his eyes from the Thursday afternoon sun to watch the rapidly rising Mississippi River floodwaters on Tennemo Road.

[Portbartender]

And this is just mid march. Wait till the snow up north srarts to melt. This is one for the record books.

[Carlton McLemore]

Portbartender wrote:

And this is just mid march. Wait till the snow up north srarts to melt. This is one for the record books.

This could get ugly. Hope everyone has confidence in those "plastic, timber and sand" levee gates.

[Jerry Harmon]

Carlton McLemore wrote:

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This could get ugly. Hope everyone has confidence in those "plastic, timber and sand" levee gates.

there not plastic there rairoad ties with timber with sandbags in between, there were never any steel gates that I ever seen, not back in the late 70's

[Carlton McLemore]

Jerry Harmon wrote:

<quoted text>there not plastic there rairoad ties with timber with sandbags in between, there were never any steel gates that I ever seen, not back in the late 70's

I think it's time someone built some. We're not living in the nineteenth century anymore.

[Jerry Harmon]

Carlton McLemore wrote:

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I think it's time someone built some. We're not living in the nineteenth century anymore.

This is they way they allways been, they don't need new ones these have been this waysince the seawall was built, If it aint broke dot fix it, waste in tax payers dollars....

[Carlton McLemore]

Jerry Harmon wrote:

<quoted text>This is they way they allways been, they don't need new ones these have been this waysince the seawall was built, If it aint broke dot fix it, waste in tax payers dollars....

Well, we've never really had to try them out have we, at least not to the point of breaking? New Orleans tried to save their taxpayers money as well and we see what happened to their levee system.

The cost will be a lot more if those gates don't hold.

[Jerry Harmon]

Carlton McLemore wrote:

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Well, we've never really had to try them out have we, at least not to the point of breaking? New Orleans tried to save their taxpayers money as well and we see what happened to their levee system.
The cost will be a lot more if those gates don't hold.

yes they have been tested I have set up where the Bell is on the seawall and the water was halfway up the gates, They worked just fine....

[Portbartender]

Flood of 73 was bad. What Jerry say's is true. The gates work fine. It's the seep water that causes the problems. Remember the Tenn. inn parking lot?

[Jerry Harmon]

Like I said in another post, There was fish in A big pond behinfd the fair grounds huge cat fish, still can't figure that out seep water does make it happen I guess.........

[Mitch]

I remember swimming in Frank Kaspers basement because of seep water.

[Jerry Harmon]

Mitch wrote:

I remember swimming in Frank Kaspers basement because of seep water.

not to many houses with basements in C'ville, Thats the first one I can recall.....

[people]

I lived down on east 18th street near the old Jr High school in 73, It was deep and bad.

[Guest]

They are already sandbagging and it is not at its peak yet. Does anyone know exactly how high it is supposed to get?

[Portbartender]

41 feet on the 28th.

[Portbartender]

Update; 40 feet by friday.

[ForDaBlues]

C'ville also runs the risk of sinkholes. Remember the one on 3rd Street in between Walker and Bushey back in the early '70's!?!

[Getting Old]

ForDaBlues wrote:

C'ville also runs the risk of sinkholes. Remember the one on 3rd Street in between Walker and Bushey back in the early '70's!?!

LOL, I remember that. I didn't happen once, but several times.

[WeinerSchnitzel]

Edwards Ave fell in back in the 70's because of seep water. I remember water bubbling out of streets and running across 84 in the curve leaving C'Ville.

[Maverick]

Carlton McLemore wrote:

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I think it's time someone built some. We're not living in the nineteenth century anymore.

Steel has a memory & when it bends it does not bend back by itself so if the water pressure bends steel gates they just keep bending until they fail. I'm sure the engineers have thought of this & are using the best material for the flood gates due to the stress that they can be subject to (Waves due to barge trafic comes to mind they hit kind of hard plus just the static pressure of water alone) now if you are smarter than the engineers that are in control of this please by all means go give them a hand.

[Portbartender]

All the gates at Cape are steel.