there are so many reports of heavily damaged apartment buildings and buildings collapsed, and requests for any and all emergency personnel to respond to the area. It's bad.
It missed his house by four blocks. He texted me this morning he was out with the fire department until about 1 am.
This was my fear. I remember that accident and being kind of freaked out every time I drove over that bridge.
For a University with a meteorology department how was that Mizzou radar not up? Would have had a crystal clear velocity signature much sooner on the Jefferson City cell
Those damn radars seem to always go down. Unless there's a big commitment/techs on site, they seem like money sinks
I enjoyed people posting things on social media wanting the military to bomb the barges to break them up and keep them from hitting the dam
He is such a jackass. I watched the El Reno episode from his storm chasing show the other night. I am shocked that he didn’t get killed from that thing. He is so aggressive with the chase when a tornado touches down.
That 305k release flood map is really something. Good thing Bixby is our most decadent and depraved suburb. https://okmay19flood.maps.arcgis.co...ndex.html?id=28dff3e644bd478386444e3bbc0882ea
Idk seems there are easier ways to stop these things than to have some F16’s fire missiles into the river bed
The Arkansas is low key one of our most important shipping routes and features the country’s furthest inland port accessible from the gulf It’s funny because where I’m from in Wichita, the Arkansas (we would call it the are-Kansas) is a small river but a couple hours south it is dammed up into basically a long lake with locks and accessible by huge ships
well maybe not necessarily f16s but some sort of incendiary to break them apart. would be cheaper to do that and dredge them out than rebuilding a dam and thousands of homes right?
If they really needed to, they could probably drop some special forces guys onto them by helicopter, let them set some explosives on them with a remote detonator, then get them back up into the helicopter & detonate them. You wouldn’t need a ton of explosives, just enough to punch a hole in the hull & sink them.
Probably be a while before they get them pulled out of there....not an easy operation and hopefully they are officially "stuck" now. There were 9 barges that crashed into McAlpin Dam in Louisville on Christmas and they just got the last one removed this past week.
opening up keystone dam. updated flood maps: https://www.cityoftulsa.org/media/10232/250k_keystone_dam_release_final.pdf
most of y'all far too young to remember this commercial, but I can assure you that it was a fixture during NFL games during the early 80s.