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sfb wrote:
I saw one blurb saying it would be a month before they will let residents back into town. Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time they want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week. The pumps can handle about 1" of rain an hour. So they have to close the holes in the dikes, get power back to the pumps, start pumping, and then start cleaning. While they're closing holes in the dikes, they'll be bringing in additional pumps, some of which will have their own power supplies. Any major port will have many of these. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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![]() "George Patterson" wrote: While they're closing holes in the dikes, they'll be bringing in additional pumps, some of which will have their own power supplies. Any major port will have many of these. On Interstate-10 in Mobile this morning, I saw at least a dozen Corps of Engineers disaster response 18-wheelers headed west. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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![]() George Patterson wrote: sfb wrote: I saw one blurb saying it would be a month before they will let residents back into town. Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time they want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week. Normally I'd agree but this one was a real doozy- if you didn't get out when you could, you'd be damn lucky to make it. If anything I think it makes people take the orders more seriously. The real risk is scrambling everybody and then having the thing go "poof" and just knock over a few trees. Imagine if there were another 1m people in New Orleans- we'd be looking at tsunami-scale casualties. -cwk. |
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Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time they
want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week. I don't think so. The people in Florida learned some hard lessons last year. |
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I doubt that there are very many portable pumps with 6' piping. That's what
they have at the levees into Pontchatrain, lots of them. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) "George Patterson" wrote in message news:OL3Re.7755$wE1.6377@trndny01... sfb wrote: I saw one blurb saying it would be a month before they will let residents back into town. Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time they want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week. The pumps can handle about 1" of rain an hour. So they have to close the holes in the dikes, get power back to the pumps, start pumping, and then start cleaning. While they're closing holes in the dikes, they'll be bringing in additional pumps, some of which will have their own power supplies. Any major port will have many of these. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I doubt that there are very many portable pumps with 6' piping. I doubt that too; the ones with which I'm familiar tended to be 14" or smaller. The larger ones with which I've dealt are not designed to be portable (they're self-contained gasoline or diesel fire protection system pumps), but a small crane can place one on a flatbed in jig time. They don't have to hook up to the existing plumbing. Drop your inlet in on one side and drop your discharge line on the lake side. Again, the pieces for this (including inlet screens) are readily available in the fire protection world. One of the larger units can pump water ten stories up through a 12" main. In any case, as I said, any major port will have large portable pumps. The largest are used for salvage operations. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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