Not sure .... meanwhile ... some actual pictures!

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More where they come from ...

Bonnet Carre Spillway opens as Mississippi River swells | NOLA.com

Not calling anybody here numbnuts, just figured it was an apropos term anytime the ACE was brought up. :)

Funny... Isn't that what your second wife call you?

http://www.cookingwithleo.com/oyster%20po%20boy.JPG

I wish to high heaven my nuts were numb, where my 2nd wife is concerned. I'm still paying that b*t*h.

And btw, you've PO'd me royally with that oyster po boy picture. Now I'm hungry, no thanks to you. really hungry. not to mention homesick for my other home, New Orleans. oysters!

Great pictures, FF. Now I know more. The spillway uses cross tie looking pieces to literally hold the water. Thats crazy. And do you think those 5 guys in the picture realize how important they are? These 5 guys control the fate of 1/3 of the U.S. water drainage. They're changing the flow of the river, affecting all these cities and farms.

I sure hope it works, and I hope they dont have to open Morganza.

Memphis destruction already estimated at 320 million.

Fixed it for ya.... gotta give credit to the actual picture poster after all.... lol ...

Dey don't have oyster poboys in Houston?

No need thanking me Mike... Just finished off a big shrimp poboy from the Amce Oyster House for lunch. :D
So what are you sayin? I should have got the oysters? :confused:



The Morganza Spilway is to insure that Baton Rouge and lands between the Bonne Carre Spillway don't flood. The Bonne Carre Spillway will more then take care of New Orleans since it is about 3 times the river width. They open the BCS about every 8 years. It's no big deal since it doesn't do anything but flush out the lake with fresh water and produce a giant alge bloom and fish kill.

Still, the lake bounces back quickly and is usually better than before.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-tluutf_F7...rimp_poboy.jpg

ah, great pics, Smash.

hope everybody's doing ok.

My word. theyre opening the Morganza. Those poor folks in the Basin.

Last open in 1973. It floods a giant area. People knew they were building on a flood plain.