Article In Last Weeks The Lake Today

[Old plug]

Did anyone read the piece in the paper last week about the disaster drill that for the lake region ? It was about what would happen if We had some very unusual weather and Truman got to high and failed. If they practice drills it must be remotely possible. I seem to recall there was some negative talk when they were building Truman about all the earthen fill that went into the darn because of the capacity. But if it ever did happen it would be something terrible for sure

[fishinwrench]

If they practice drills it must be remotely possible.

Yeah last year the camdenton area "heros" got properly geared and trained for the zombie apocalypse too. Laurie even aquired a tactical Hummer that nobody in the area even knows how to change a tire on.

Add to that a 200mph armored Mustang interceptor for a police force with a jurisdiction of 3 miles in any given direction. Totally rediculis. Although I suppose when the opportunity to flirt with the girls at the Break Time convenience store present themselves an officer has to get there pronto.

They are obviously bored and have excess funding as well as embarrassing imaginations. I mean it took all of the personell from 3 counties, plus two helicopters, almost a month to catch a kid on a jet ski.....Yet they "are prepared" for apocalyptic events. Yeah, ok.

LMFAO

[Old plug]

Lets hope it could not happen

[fishinwrench]

Oh I dunno. I wouldn't mind having all those hybrids dumped into LO, and the shoreline scrubbed real good. Maybe relocate ivy bend to down around tan-tar

I didn't read the article but now I'm wondering just how a drill/practice goes for stopping a 40 foot wall of water.

[bfishn]

Step One; grab your ankles...

[Old plug]

According to them the darn would not break sudden it would be more like a surge. I think that is because the darn would crumble and it would result in a slower longer release. yeah I thought of all those hybrids coming down here. I bet though what was left in the shallows up there and did not get out would smell from Kansas to Illinois. After what happened down on table rock last year I am not sure something like they were training for would be possible here.

Does anyone recall what the criticism was when they were building Truman about the dirt fill. I know there was something can not remember.

[fishinwrench]

They are supposed to be Americas best trained engineers, surely they knew what they were doing.

Unless there's a wicked quake I think it'll stay plugged just fine.

[Old plug]

Thats true wrench but like i told you the supposed best deigned the Obama health care rollout and now HUD has been calling my son in law and some others asking them to come rescue the mess. I jut do not trust the best most of the time

[laker67]

I hope those two experts were not related. I am leaning more towards the "grab your ankles" drill.

[Greasy B]

They are supposed to be Americas best trained engineers, surely they knew what they were doing.

Unless there's a wicked quake I think it'll stay plugged just fine.

"Structural Engineering is the Art of molding materials we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyze, so as to withstand forces we cannot really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance."

James E. Amrhein, former executive director of the Masonry Institute of America.