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Dam failure prompts more Commerce City evacs
12 Sep 2013 20:38 #1
by otisptoadwater
There is an embankment currently holding back a significant amount of water which is 300 yards wide, three-quarters of a mile long and about 15-20 feet deep. That is equivalent to three football fields in width and 12 football fields in length. The embankment is expected to fail within the next hour and water will begin flowing in the neighborhood.
Read more: http://www.9news.com/news/article/354911/71/Dam-failure-prompts-more-evacs
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Dam failure prompts more Commerce City evacs was created by otisptoadwater
There is an embankment currently holding back a significant amount of water which is 300 yards wide, three-quarters of a mile long and about 15-20 feet deep. That is equivalent to three football fields in width and 12 football fields in length. The embankment is expected to fail within the next hour and water will begin flowing in the neighborhood.
Read more: http://www.9news.com/news/article/354911/71/Dam-failure-prompts-more-evacs
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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14 Sep 2013 00:48 #3
by otisptoadwater
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Replied by otisptoadwater on topic Dam failure prompts more Commerce City evacs
I figure no one up here cares much about what goes on in Commerce City but the paragraph I posted struck me as a "what city planner approved a housing development 100-ish feet from the dry face of a dam" moment.
Waaaaaay off topic: I had a girlfriend who begged me to kiss her where it stinks so I drove her out to Commerce City.
:rofllol And now back to our regularly scheduled program...
Waaaaaay off topic: I had a girlfriend who begged me to kiss her where it stinks so I drove her out to Commerce City.
:rofllol And now back to our regularly scheduled program... I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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