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More -- and more vigorous -- water channels have appeared on the left side of the screen in the 30 minutes or so I've been watching.
When the camera pulls back far enough to show the two light blue shed buildings on the right, notice the dangling piece of pipe. It floated into that position about 20 minutes ago.
All of the overtopping water is going into a huge drainage hole at the base of the dam, and gushes out of a channel not usually visible on the camera angle.
Midlothian is a small town well south of DFW and residents in the line of fire have already been notified and encouraged to evacuate. It was all over the news this morning.
I'd hardly call it "stunning" or "horrifying."
It's the result of:
Too much rain in too short a period of time.
Not nearly enough investment in infrastructure/public works projects to accomodate all the people who INSIST on moving here.
The state is too busy handing out tax breaks to corporations, building toll roads, and trying to think up new ways to punish pregnant women and homosexuals to pay any attention to practical things like dams.
Granted, it's not the Ninth Ward Levee, or the Old River Control giving way for the Atchafalaya to cut a new channel to the Gulf, but these moments of Man vs Nature are inherently fascinating.
Granted, it's not the Ninth Ward Levee, or the Old River Control giving way for the Atchafalaya to cut a new channel to the Gulf, but these moments of Man vs Nature are inherently fascinating.
Midlothian is a small town well south of DFW and residents in the line of fire have already been notified and encouraged to evacuate. It was all over the news this morning.
I'd hardly call it "stunning" or "horrifying."
It's the result of:
Too much rain in too short a period of time.
Not nearly enough investment in infrastructure/public works projects to accomodate all the people who INSIST on moving here.
The state is too busy handing out tax breaks to corporations, building toll roads, and trying to think up new ways to punish pregnant women and homosexuals to pay any attention to practical things like dams.
A few minutes a go a man walked out from the left, picked up some empty plastic fuel containers, kind of looked down, then walked off.
I wish the camera would pull back for a minute so viewers could get a more complete picture of the whole scenario.
Yes, because watching Texans suffer is interesting, and deserves a wide angle!
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