re: #367 lawhawk

Beats me. If they’re predicting that there’s a collapse of a portion of the structure imminent, I’d say that they’d be evacuating those working at the dam, and calling on everyone directly downstream to evacuate.

This is bad stuff. And I’m just spitballing here, but I think the engineers are weighing the progressive collapse of the emergency spillway versus the total collapse of the dam if they try relieving pressure through the main spillway; they’re taking the former option figuring that a smaller collapse could relieve the pressure on the dam and prevent a true cataclysm.

This is why engineers make the big bucks.

Does Mr. Trump even have a nominee for FEMA yet?