Subj : Re: Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 16:47:58 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 14-Apr-2020 10:35 <=- BM>> There has been some minor flooding already -- a trail or street right BM>> next to the River might have had water on it -- and they are BM>> anticipating need-to-use-the-floodwalls some time in the near future. BM>> I haven't heard the estimated arrival date nor how much. NB>> Do they have floodwalls at hand, or are they all on order for this NB>> year still...? BM> As I said some time last week the Mississippi River was two feet over BM> flood stage; they are putting up some of the temporary barriers, so BM> must be stored locally and I'd assume more on order. The barriers are BM> a big plastic box filled with sand via bulldozer and the like. Also BM> assume the barriers are a one-time use as removing the sand would BM> damage. Presume the sand is filtered and reused. I suppose no way of knowing when the ones now being placed arrived.... I wonder if they'd be stored, sand and all, though, and the sand would just dry out to be ready for the next flood... or maybe there's a way to remove the sand without damaging the boxes.... BM> Rock Island (IL) (across the River) is a little more elevated above BM> the River and so a lot less area to protect. They have some some BM> floodgates which are raised during flooding. Other towns (seems mostly BM> downriver from here) have levees for protection. Each locality develops their own ways of dealing with the inevitable flooding... ;) BM>>>>> Another item is creation of a 'destination park' (??) along the BM>>>>> riverfront. To be six or so blocks long with play and game areas. NB> NB>>> Have you had a chance to explore it yet....? BM>> No. Autumn hasn't wanted to go wandering and if she did not sure we'd BM>> take her where the desire to touch/climb/etc. would be extremely BM>> tempting with the COVID-19 out there. Plus if it has been designated BM>> as a park even though in-progess it would be closed and off-limits BM>> (city regulation, so far not state). NB>> That's true, with all the restrictions, even if she did want to go NB>> wandering, there wouldn't be as many legal places to go... Probably NB>> better to get the outdoors exposure closer to home, like the back NB>> yard... And maybe they aren't able to do much with the park creation NB>> itself at this point.... BM> Plus for the past week or so the parks are closed. Iowa is one of the BM> few states without the stay-in-home order; seems like we went from the BM> opposite direction and closed everything down so no place to go so may BM> as well stay home! As far as I know our parks weren't ever closed.... but not many are going there... everything else was closed down except for essential business, though, so still not really any place to go, so the stay home order is almost superfluous... BM> As for Autumn, she hasn't really wanted to go outside when here; the BM> weather hasn't been all that nice -- cold and windy. Good news: she BM> has passed whatever test it is to get into First Grade. :) Needed BM> 100% in the test, she had been missing one point the past several times BM> (so 98%) -- from what we were told more from boredom or "that's enough BM> of that for now". Plus sometimes she likes to screw around to see if BM> we're paying attention, so maybe the same with the test. She reminds me of other kids that are too smart for their own good sometimes.... :) Good that she passed that test, though... :) NB>> we've been dodging most of the storms that go on into the New England NB>> states and cause havoc.... we've been getting a milder form, possibly NB>> the edge of the system as it passes by.... I don't think we've even NB>> had any thunderstorms yet this year, or if we did, they were at night NB>> and I managed to sleep through them... BM> My Mother said she got about a foot of snow. Fast-forward to now (!), BM> here we've supposed to have been getting 'accumulating snow' the past BM> several nights - so far nothing. This morning's forecast is for BM> overnight snow flurries - we'll see! We've only had snow in dribs and drabs, too... hardly accumulating... but my sister, a little south of here was getting it a couple inches at a time... it is, though, colder than it should be this time of year... NB>> And right now there's supposedly a really nasty system with high winds NB>> and all coming through our area, and once again, it doesn't seem to be NB>> all that bad right here where we are.... it may well be worse south or NB>> north of us, more likely south, though, as I think it's part of the NB>> storm system that is spawning the tornadoes and such in the Mid- NB>> Atlantic... We've got the high wind warning until 2AM tonight... BM> We've had some pretty interesting winds and gusts the last week -- BM> 20-30 MPH sustained and ~50 MPH gusts. Supposed to be ~40 MPH gusts BM> mid-afternoon. We keep getting the 20-30 MPH winds here, with gusts above that, but hasn't been as bad as predicted, and certainly hasn't been causing much if any damage... probably the previous winds this year brought down anything that was loose already.... BM>> the Burning Bush doesn't look too good: several of the trunk branches BM>> have lost bark, so dead. Some were dead when I trimmed in the Fall and BM>> didn't get to cutting out, so might not be too many newly-dead, or BM>> even any. A slightly later project to clean that out. Last couple of BM>> days we're clearing leaves from around the perennials and shrubs. So BM>> far will be too cold this morning (30ø) and supposed to rain later. NB>> This time of year things are just too changeable... we've had a couple NB>> of really warm days for April, last few and today... upper 50s and NB>> today upper 60s... but before that it was in the 40s and below, and NB>> coming up will be more cool weather... and actually not all that rainy NB>> for an April, though there's been enough of that, too... ;) Hopefully NB>> you'll get a good day for dealing with that Burning Bush plant... and NB>> hopefully some will have survived... :) BM> Yes -- I'm not planning on trimming out anything unless it looks BM> definitely dead, as in lack of bark. Weather lately hasn't been nice BM> enough to do much outside. Similar here... :) Breaking the message here.... ttyl neb .... BBS addiction is a terminal disease. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .