High water

[frazil]

Yeah, that's what we were talking about here in the office is that this must be because of all the snow melt from Vermont. So, are you telling me it's going to get higher still? It's been rising all day. And tell your buddy that he's messing up my running route!

I don't know if it'll get higher still where you are. I think the goal is to prevent that water plus the 6 ft of additional stage they're expecting to come down all at once. So it may just remain that high for several days. It's a pretty amazing & effective system, and that's what those floodways are for. It's better than what Hartford looked like in 1936 after heavy snowmelt and rain:

 

[NJmike PE]

Yeah, that's what we were talking about here in the office is that this must be because of all the snow melt from Vermont. So, are you telling me it's going to get higher still? It's been rising all day. And tell your buddy that he's messing up my running route!

Sapp, you can easily check the the historical data as well as current data on the USGS website for said river.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ct/nwis/uv?site_no=01190070

 

[Master slacker]

Just make sure your snow melt doesn't f**k us up like it nearly did in 2011. K thx

Before -

After -

 

[Sapper PE LS]

Good stuff, and what'd I tell you, 6'! I've got one hell of a well calibrated eye!!!!

 

[NJmike PE]

Connecticut snow melt effects MS in LA?

 

[matt267 PE]

is this what happens when you fill in wetlands?

wetlands are a fictional constraint created by tree huggers. oking:

I bet "they" use holograms to make us think they are there.

 

[Sapper PE LS]

No, CT snow melt doesn't effect LA. VT snow melt effects CT. CT snow melted weeks ago.

 

[NJmike PE]

No, CT snow melt doesn't effect LA. VT snow melt effects CT. CT snow melted weeks ago.

I'm with you. I thought MS was from LA and his post led me to believe that snow melt from New England somehow impacted him.

 

[NJmike PE]

is this what happens when you fill in wetlands?

wetlands are a fictional constraint created by tree huggers. oking:

I bet "they" use holograms to make us think they are there.

that and VERY large permitting fees to build around them.

 

[Master slacker]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

 

[NJmike PE]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough)

this

 

[engineergurl]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

yes because when you build things at an elevation lower than sea level, it is a surprise when it floods...

 

[knight1fox3]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

yes because when you build things at an elevation lower than sea level, it is a surprise when it floods...

OH SNAP!!! hmy:

 

[Master slacker]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

yes because when you build things at an elevation lower than sea level, it is a surprise when it floods...

I blame the civil engineers.

Those damn, dirty civil engineers...

 

[engineergurl]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

yes because when you build things at an elevation lower than sea level, it is a surprise when it floods...

I blame the civil engineers.

Those damn, dirty civil engineers...

See, now a smart man would have blamed the surveyors (sorry EM)

 

[csb]

Did someone call for a dirty civil engineer?

 

[NJmike PE]

I'm not a stormwater engineer (because it's too tough) and I'm busy eating french fries. Just keep yo damn melting snow up yunder in them northern river parts. Thanky kindly.

yes because when you build things at an elevation lower than sea level, it is a surprise when it floods...

I blame the civil engineers.

Those damn, dirty civil engineers...

see now I would have blamed those damn mechanical engineers who couldn't design a pump powerful enough to stay ahead of the rising flood waters. Slackers

 

[Sapper PE LS]

Wow

 

[matt267 PE]

^ wow. That could get serious.

 

[NJmike PE]

are there any downstream flood controls (levees, etc)? Anything that can regulate the backwater effects? See Tmack was right. This stormwater modeling is so difficult!