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Post by featherduster on May 3, 2011 12:49:52 GMT -5
I just read where the Lake Patoka dam may fail which could cause sever flooding in the city if Jasper.
Any truth to this?
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Post by gobblerstopper on May 3, 2011 13:41:10 GMT -5
They are dumping a bunch of water on Jasper right now. If the rain doesn't stop, the dam breaching could be a possibility.
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Post by raporter on May 3, 2011 14:13:06 GMT -5
The lake is up to the top of the overflow spillway. Hey fish are still biting though. Was catching crappies yesterday so the fish are still hungry.
If the dam would burst I would not want to be in Jasper.
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Post by HuntMeister on May 3, 2011 14:26:17 GMT -5
Where did you read this?
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Post by Sasquatch on May 3, 2011 14:50:22 GMT -5
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Post by antler on May 3, 2011 20:09:29 GMT -5
I was sent pictures today of water rushing into the overflow. Pretty crazy.
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Post by gobblerstopper on May 3, 2011 21:25:49 GMT -5
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Post by HuntMeister on May 4, 2011 6:17:13 GMT -5
Thanks Sas!! I don't se in any of the articles about dam failure... |
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Post by kevin1 on May 4, 2011 6:42:34 GMT -5
Patoka Dam failing is extremely unlikely, that spillway exists to prevent that.
I've never understood man's compulsion to build on a floodplain, the town of English not far from Jasper is a text book example. They built their town on the banks of a fair sized creek, presumably for power for a grist mill, but nearly every time it rained more than an inch or two the creek would leave it's banks and flood the town. Did they levee the creek, dig it wider or deeper to accomodate the flow? No, they filed disater claims with FEMA year after year until the feds finally got fed up and cut them off from further claims. They moved the civic buildings uphill to the side of SR 64, and were never flooded out again. Bizarrely enough, there are still people living down there on the floodplain, I hope their flood insurance is current.
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