The Latest on flooding: Evacuation order in effect near dam

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

4:45 p.m.

A mandatory evacuation remains in place for about 1,000 people ordered from their homes north of Houston because authorities are concerned that heavy rains may cause a dam to fail.

Miranda Hahs, spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management, says work began on the earthen dam at Lake Lewis on Thursday when soil began sliding away.

She said Sunday that the dam is holding and no water is seeping through.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8ddc092ddfc24b3d93e18e86809af6a5/latest-flooding-authorities-conduct-water-rescues

[GoneFishin]

1. The important thing is that we must spend more money on jet fighters and and planes that don't

work, and keep procuring expensive equipment for branches of the military which they themselves insist that they don't want or need.

Infrastructure schminfrastructure.

[Purveyor]

2. And don't forget, 'bomb, bomb, bomb...bomb bomb Iran. eom

[Igel]

7. If government money did go to help maintain this dam,

then others would be complaining.

It's a privately built, owned, and maintained dam. It's a small reservoir created to cool turbines at a power company's generating plant.

(It's the same issue with a number of the Mississippi levees that people talk about. Some were privately built, some were built by local authorities, some by a combination of private and local authorities, some by states with or without local authorities, some by the feds. For the most part, you build it and own it, you get to maintain it. It's easier to assume that all public works must be federal, if that's the only tool in your toolkit.)

[GoneFishin]

8. Yeah. You have a point in this instance. Doesn't change the big picture a bit though.

And I'll bet if a failure causes a big enough mess there will be federal money expected to clean it up.

But then that is nothing new, right? Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

3. Hurrah for DU. Thank you for posting.

I couldn't find anything about this in either the Houston Chronicle or ABC News.

[allan01]

4. here ya go

http://abc13.com/weather/evacuation-ordered-for-400-montgomery-county-households-around-dam-/738968/

[jwirr]

5. This has got to be really terrible for them as even before the draught they did not have this kind

of problem. Wish them all the best.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. A tornado hit some apartments by my old high school

SW Houston - The apartments are over 50 years old and very run down. Only 40 units were danaged, but all the utilities had to be shut off. All 1600 residents are having to evacuate.