North NJ town flood evacuation over dam break...

[Data Holmes]

I just got a phone call from someone who said that the town of butler NJ is evacuating their main down town area because a reservoir dam broke and they think they have five min before it becomes flooded.

Nothing on the net yet about it though.


Update, It's the Charlottesburg reservoir dam which has started to crack. The evacuation of down town Butler is due to the threat risk of the dam breaking causing a massive flood of the area in as little as five or six min time.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Crap. It sounds like an old Superman cartoon or something. I wonder what they can do to prevent the dam from breaking, as well as repair it.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

My aunt lives in Pompton Lakes, which is just down the river and they have had their dam fail as well. More then half the town is under water and they think they may be evacuated.

 

[Data Holmes]

Ok, got home and it appears that someone in the press took a comment from the butler pd that they were thinking about it, because the dam showed early signs of cracking and they were worried about rain tonight causing further damage. Beyond that nothing has actually happened. Sounds like channel 12 nj got a little ahead of themselves.

 

[RobertScorpio]

You know what we need? A massive work program that would build canals/ducts, whatever, to transfer this flood water you folks back east get every year to the drought ridden areas of Arizona/california and the other western states...

Rob

 

[bigdaddy]

This happens a lot now-a-days, it's what happens when we spend 5 trillion dollars are useless wars and other shit instead of on dams, and roads and schools.

 

[Rii]

This happens a lot now-a-days, it's what happens when we spend 5 trillion dollars are useless wars and other shit instead of on dams, and roads and schools.

Speaking of dams and wars...

Mosul Dam

A September 2006 report by the United States Army Corps of Engineers noted, "In terms of internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world." The report further outlined a worst case scenario, in which a sudden collapse of the dam would flood Mosul under 65 feet (20 m) of water and Baghdad, a city of 7 million, to 15 feet (5 m), with an estimated death toll of 500,000.

 

[John Picard]

This happens a lot now-a-days, it's what happens when we spend 5 trillion dollars are useless wars and other shit instead of on dams, and roads and schools.

Hmmmm. Looks like the current Administration didn't live up to yet *another* empty promise (ie pulling out of Iraq and ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan).

Then again, I'm nor surprised.

 

[sojourner]

You know what we need? A massive work program that would build canals/ducts, whatever, to transfer this flood water you folks back east get every year to the drought ridden areas of Arizona/california and the other western states...

Rob

It worked for the Martians!

 

[Scout101]

This happens a lot now-a-days, it's what happens when we spend 5 trillion dollars are useless wars and other shit instead of on dams, and roads and schools.

Hmmmm. Looks like the current Administration didn't live up to yet *another* empty promise (ie pulling out of Iraq and ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan).

Then again, I'm nor surprised.

No, I wouldn't imagine that you would be, seeing as how you made up your mind in advance, not to be swayed by actual events. Not to drag this further off topic, but didn't we increase effort/troop levels in Afghanistan, contrary to your statement? And didn't we set up our exit strategy from Iraq, which i thought was slow reduction to start, and a more full withdrawal supposed to be implemented this year?

Furthermore, isn't that the way you (and others) WANTED it, with slow/strategic reductions in forces in Iraq, rather than just boxing things up and leaving in the middle of the night?

Talk about "damned if you do, damned if you don't", and trying to score political points at the expense of common sense...

 

[RobertScorpio]

This happens a lot now-a-days, it's what happens when we spend 5 trillion dollars are useless wars and other shit instead of on dams, and roads and schools.

Hmmmm. Looks like the current Administration didn't live up to yet *another* empty promise (ie pulling out of Iraq and ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan).

Then again, I'm nor surprised.

No, I wouldn't imagine that you would be, seeing as how you made up your mind in advance, not to be swayed by actual events. Not to drag this further off topic, but didn't we increase effort/troop levels in Afghanistan, contrary to your statement? And didn't we set up our exit strategy from Iraq, which i thought was slow reduction to start, and a more full withdrawal supposed to be implemented this year?

Furthermore, isn't that the way you (and others) WANTED it, with slow/strategic reductions in forces in Iraq, rather than just boxing things up and leaving in the middle of the night?

Talk about "damned if you do, damned if you don't", and trying to score political points at the expense of common sense...

And lets not forget; he did close Gitmo.

Rob

 

[Scout101]

Last I saw on that one was that Obama signed the orders to close it, and then the Senate blocked the money needed to move or release the prisoners. 12/15/09 had Obama signing an authorization for funding to get a prison in Illinois prepped to receive the Gitmo prisoners there instead.

But you knew that, right?

You'd have been happier if they just threw the doors open and left? How would you have handled it instead?