Homes swamped after levee is breached in Washington state

[evenflow1969]

Now they are going to have to repair the levee and what's it going to cost to repair all those homes. Oh and what's it going to cost for the higher insurance payments in the future that are sure to come?

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Ain't telling me anything I don't know. I was county engineer once upon a time. I tried to fund my stuff. I warned how every minute it doesn't get done the more expensive it gets. No one listened. Where was the money going to come from anyway. I finished an under pass I was working on and retired. Now I hunt golf and fish. Not my problem anymore yet. My grandfather was county engineer of a smaller less wealthy county there are already a few county roads you go 10 to 12 miles out young way because they can't afford to replace the Bridges. It will be come appearent on Township and county roads of poorer counties first as far as bridges go. Sewer is what will be noticed in the big cities first. It's bad.

 

[Concerned American]

The State of Washington doesn't have the money to maintain their own levies?

LOL, like CA, WA is dealing with a deficit. They always seem to have money to throw at illegal immigrants and homeless, but never any left for the taxpayer. Stinkin' useless democrats.

 

[OKTexas]

Ain't telling me anything I don't know. I was county engineer once upon a time. I tried to fund my stuff. I warned how every minute it doesn't get done the more expensive it gets. No one listened. Where was the money going to come from anyway. I finished an under pass I was working on and retired. Now I hunt golf and fish. Not my problem anymore yet. My grandfather was county engineer of a smaller less wealthy county there are already a few county roads you go 10 to 12 miles out young way because they can't afford to replace the Bridges. It will be come appearent on Township and county roads of poorer counties first as far as bridges go. Sewer is what will be noticed in the big cities first. It's bad.

So the only question left is when are the voters going to wise up?

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[Concerned American]

So the only question left is when are the voters going to wise up?

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I worked in a large production facility planning maintenance and was often faced with the question of how long something would last or how long the repair would take. My stock answer was "Pay me now or pay me later." The caveat was always if you paid me later, you were going to pay a lot more in addition to the very possible event of loss of production during a run. All governments seem to take the gamble, but the democrats seem to be more oblivious to the problems opting for what gets more press.

 

[OKTexas]

I worked in a large production facility planning maintenance and was often faced with the question of how long something would last or how long the repair would take. My stock answer was "Pay me now or pay me later." The caveat was always if you paid me later, you were going to pay a lot more in addition to the very possible event of loss of production during a run. All governments seem to take the gamble, but the democrats seem to be more oblivious to the problems opting for what gets more press.

That's why a rigorous preventative maintenance schedule saves money and keeps things running smoothly.

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damaging our infrastructure at a rate that will soon exceed our ability to repair the damage.

 

[Concerned American]

That's why a rigorous preventative maintenance schedule saves money and keeps things running smoothly.

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Preventative maintenance has stepped aside for Predictive maintenance. The tools available now can let you know if a bearing is near failure AND what the part of the bearing is that will fail, i.e. the ball, race or ball cage long before it would be discovered in a standard preventative program. Wire terminations is another place where newer tools have actually prevented damage with non intrusive means. Maintenance programs have improved immensely in the private sector but as usual, the government is always the last to get the word.

 

[ReinyDays]

NWS is calling for 4 to 8 inches by the end of Friday ... [yawn] ... I've seen worse ... best we're getting is a Hydrologic Outlook statement, not even a Flood Watch ... just your typical heavy rainstorm just like every other heavy rain storm ...

We've been warm and dry ... so this water just soaks in ... and we don't have four to ten feet of snow in the hills ... all pretty humbug outside the flood plains and swamps ...

 

[OKTexas]

Preventative maintenance has stepped aside for Predictive maintenance. The tools available now can let you know if a bearing is near failure AND what the part of the bearing is that will fail, i.e. the ball, race or ball cage long before it would be discovered in a standard preventative program. Wire terminations is another place where newer tools have actually prevented damage with non intrusive means. Maintenance programs have improved immensely in the private sector but as usual, the government is always the last to get the word.

I've got stories but we're getting too far off topic.

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[Old Rocks]

So the only question left is when are the voters going to wise up?

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Given the voters elected a known child rapist and 34 count felon to the Presidency, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Concerned American]

Given the voters elected a known child rapist and 34 count felon to the Presidency, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Still three years and a month to go. Winning is great! Merry Christmas!

 

[Old Rocks]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332224001398

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=9658...ZXMvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1mYXJtbGFuZC1wcmljZXM&ntb=1

 

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332224001398

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=9658...ZXMvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1mYXJtbGFuZC1wcmljZXM&ntb=1

How does that show "damaging our infrastructure at a rate that will soon exceed our ability to repair the damage?"

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Given the voters elected a known child rapist and 34 count felon to the Presidency, I wouldn't hold my breath.

We're talking WA state voters or more specifically Seattle voters because that's where the majority of voters live and trust me, they sure didn't vote for Trump, which btw has nothing to do with the Governor leadership here. In that case they voted once again for a Dem, who was a litigation lawyer that only knows how to sue people. He had quite a list of lawsuits as the AG and didn't even wait to get moved into the Gov mansion before he was filing lawsuits against Trump to protect the Sanctuary State status that gives out CDL's to illegal murders and crashes into the infrastructure and, and and......all costing those voters even more tax money and of course insist Trump is to blame......so they keep voting to keep the same shit over and over again.

This is why we say D is for DUMB

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Those levees that broke were near Warehouses as well. And the cause of the breaks were actually because of relieving pressure from atleast 2 dams from the first onslaught of rain and before the second storms hit.

The worst of the storms have been in the mountains that have or did have warmer temps, so no snow. Not to mention some high winds also in the mountains with Alpental Ski Resort (top of Snoqualmie Pass) clocking 112mph winds, then temps dropped and they have had or will soon have blizzard conditions.

The weather as well as the disasters have been changing by the hour

 

[Concerned American]

Those levees that broke were near Warehouses as well. And the cause of the breaks were actually because of relieving pressure from atleast 2 dams from the first onslaught of rain and before the second storms hit.

The worst of the storms have been in the mountains that have or did have warmer temps, so no snow. Not to mention some high winds also in the mountains with Alpental Ski Resort (top of Snoqualmie Pass) clocking 112mph winds, then temps dropped and they have had or will soon have blizzard conditions.

The weather as well as the disasters have been changing by the hour

You're wasting your breath--these leftist morons only know, "Bbbbut, Bbbbut, Bbbut, TRUMP" LOL

 

[toobfreak]

Dammit bro! I was gonna post that song.

My mother said to watch out for that long-haired stuff!

 

[Woodznutz]

Lol, that shit costs. Civil engineering report has stressed a d minus report for 20 years. We are what 38 trillion in debt. Where's the money coming from. This show is coming to a theater near you soon. Sewers and bridges are behind on maintenance country wide

We need more bike trails and flower gardens in the middle of intersections. Nobody gives a shit about sewers and bridges.

 

[Woodznutz]

Ain't telling me anything I don't know. I was county engineer once upon a time. I tried to fund my stuff. I warned how every minute it doesn't get done the more expensive it gets. No one listened. Where was the money going to come from anyway. I finished an under pass I was working on and retired. Now I hunt golf and fish. Not my problem anymore yet. My grandfather was county engineer of a smaller less wealthy county there are already a few county roads you go 10 to 12 miles out young way because they can't afford to replace the Bridges. It will be come appearent on Township and county roads of poorer counties first as far as bridges go. Sewer is what will be noticed in the big cities first. It's bad.

Travel to "undeveloped" countries. They have dirt roads, no expensive maintenance problems.

While stationed near a small village in Korea I was tasked with driving a two-and-a-half to help the villagers haul stone which they used to maintain the street's drainage ditches. All the workers were unpaid volunteers from the village. Unpaid volunteerism is crucial to maintain infrastructure. Sadly, it's all but unknown here. Even prisoners, who would love to get outdoors for a day, aren't allowed to do so.

 

[Woodznutz]

MSN

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Overnight, a levee was breached on the White River in Pacific, Washington, after days of heavy rain and flooding in the region. Carter Evans reports.

A parade of Pacific storms, accompanied by atmospheric rivers, will continue to march into the West Coast, bringing a threat of more rain to already flooded areas of western Washington, and an increasing flood threat to Oregon and Northern California into this weekend.

The latest atmospheric river Monday dumped another 2 to 5 inches of rain in the Cascades and Olympics of Washington state, which were still recovering from 10 to 18 inches of rain during last week's procession of atmospheric rivers.

Atmospheric rivers? Really?

Sorry folks but when Mother Nature decides to take a dump on you she will.

Once a levee is built it should be built up over time and developed as a new landform, an "isthmus" if you will.