tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post8299644956794881545..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: How to Totally Eliminate Flood DamageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-25243276117853989922014-07-07T10:30:19.414-05:002014-07-07T10:30:19.414-05:00Tim Weitzel: There are instances in which I read o...Tim Weitzel: There are instances in which I read of an institutional decision (government, military, corporate, university, school board) and think I have a better way than what it decided to do. I'm not sufficiently delusional to believe that when I have those thoughts I am always right, and the institutions' administrators are clearly wrong. But those are my thoughts.<br /><br />But in this case, I'm not confident I could do better than the Army Corps of Engineers. I'm not saying there's no chance I could do better; I don't know enough to say that either. It's just not obvious to me what their error is, and how precisely one can reasonably expect them to make these judgment calls. It's kind of a classic multiple-variable analysis problem -- and one for which experimentation cannot really be designed. Is it going to rain? When? How much? Where? With what likelihood of runoff? How much needs to be held in the Reservoir for future individual and institutional use downstream during the months to come?<br /><br />I certainly wish it could be a really precise science/algorithm. I'm not sure it can be. Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-20427702067177866092014-07-04T15:58:36.827-05:002014-07-04T15:58:36.827-05:00While it is true we have too much concrete and dra...While it is true we have too much concrete and drainage tile, there is also the concern that the flooding of 2014 could have been prevented by better management practice by the USACE.<br /><br /> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152519588549060&set=a.146634794059.111002.796604059&type=1&theaterAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02200195870350588007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-49664274830417742792013-06-14T20:57:17.213-05:002013-06-14T20:57:17.213-05:00Advertising NoticeNotice Regarding Advertising: Th...<b>Advertising Notice</b><br><br><b>Notice Regarding Advertising:</b> This blog runs an open comments section. All comments related to blog entries have (so far) remained posted, regardless of how critical. Although I would prefer that those posting comments identify themselves, anonymous comments are also accepted.<br><br>The only limitation is that advertising posing as comments will be removed. That is why one or more of the comments posted on this blog entry, containing links to unrelated matter, have been deleted.<br>-- Nick<br><br>Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-23681636077158332852013-06-04T20:27:24.276-05:002013-06-04T20:27:24.276-05:00This is an absurd suggestion. I suppose we could r...This is an absurd suggestion. I suppose we could remove flooding if we'd go back and live as the Indians; a stone age, hunter/gatherer way of life. I doubt that the authors would voluntarily return to that sort of existence themselves. This is the sort of exercise we hear of proposed by those on the Coasts suggesting that Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas be returned to the conditions of the 19th Century -- with buffalo roaming and all the rest. Ridiculous, especially if you like to eat.James Jenkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-10524690512007303392013-06-04T10:59:26.670-05:002013-06-04T10:59:26.670-05:00I we (the owners) had to pay a significant part of...I we (the owners) had to pay a significant part of the cost to rebuild, we would not rebuild in the flood plain. Government (taxpayers) should not pay any part of rebuilding in a flood plain.kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04864834032563327100noreply@blogger.com