[Rhodes22-list] Re: KY style Katrina - TN

[Rik Sandberg]

Sorry Bill,

But yep, That water ran in there because of the storm surge. The water in the city
now is higher than the normal level of the lake now that the storm surge outside
the floodwalls is running back out to the sea.  I agree that, since much of the 
city is below sea level, ALL of the water will not run out. BUT, as I said before,
much of it will, if they let it. The rest will have to be pumped. They cannot run
their pumps though, until the dikes are fixed.

I was listening to a gentleman from the Army Corp of Engineer on NPR just this morning
describing this very scenario.

Rik

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
Sent: Aug 31, 2005 9:26 AM
To: sanderico at earthlink.net, 
	The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] KY style Katrina - TN

Nope.

The land behind the dikes is lower than the water in the lake and the 
Mississippi.  All the water that gets into the "bowl" must be pumped 
back out.  A lot of water got in.

Bill Effros