23 hours ago by Rex Archer

Recently I posted on Yuba Foothills Forum that wioth the annoucement by Yuba County that the Yuba river levees no longer Protect the South county from floods and I posted since the Corps of engineers in 2007, certified the Yuba River levees from Hiway 70 to Simpson lane Road as 100 year levees, that ...

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6 days ago by mahogani the media goddess

Anyone living in the SBC who DIDN'T receive damage from last Thursday's massive storms is quite lucky.Even days later, some residents are still fearing the worst as the water is still at a dangerous height and pushing the limits at the levees in Bossier. Evacuations have already been issued and now ...

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8 days ago by George "Loki" Williams

Please be aware that the Rising Tide Blog has moved to a new home! We are upping the ante in a big way and moving the blog to it's own server and updating it to WordPress are only part of it! If you wish to connect with Risint Tide you can find us in the following places: The New, Improved Rising Ti ...

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10 days ago by djrelish

These are difficult subjects for many New Orleanians, but many also agree that something drastic has to be done to save our city and culture. Recap: Some of the breeched levees during Katrina were caused when waves over-topped and eroded the ground as they crashed on the levee’s dry side. This const ...

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12 days ago by quintascott

Last week a pair of geologists, at the University of Texas, Austin, proposed diverting the Mississippi and its sediment to Breton Sound on the east and Barataria Bay to the west in order to build new deltas in each body of water. Illustration from Science Daily, (Credit: AGU/EOS) They would make the ...

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12 days ago by Clay

Storm threat to New Orleans out of our control, says general | World news | The Guardian "If you ask can I protect the city, the answer is no. Can I reduce the risk? Yes. "We can develop better early warning systems, better evacuation plans, better levees to hold back most of the water, but we canno ...

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13 days ago by Carl Pope

New Orleans -- The intriguing thing about a conference chock full of present and former officers from the Army Corps of Engineers is that you get all the data you need, but you have to connect the dots yourself. At sessions focused on Hurricane Katrina during the Ecumenical Patriarch's Eighth Religi ...

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15 days ago by Rex Archer

TRLIA after three years of telling state boards, newspapers , radio stations, the west Linda levee has been certified by the Corps of Engineers and is completed, now started to Flatten the waterside of said levee this week of october, 11, 2009! TRLIA and many PLumas lake defenders of TRLIAs work den ...

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17 days ago by Ron

Nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding of New Orleans canals and levees are about 50% complete. The task faced by the Army Corps of Engineersis daunting in the scope of work needed to rebuild New Orleans. In fact this represents the largest design build project in the Corps histor ...

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20 days ago by sharissa

The other day my cousin and I were talking and Hurricane Katrina came up in our conversation. My cousin informed me that he met a lady who had relocated here to Texas from New Orleans, LA. Her and her husband claim they heard the levee being dynamited (they believe by the military) by the 9th Ward s ...

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