So, does anyone else remember the Corps of Engineers expressing concern about many levees countrywide?
Seen at MSNBC:
An irrigation canal’s earthen levee ruptured after heavy rains early Saturday, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing the rescue of dozens of people in helicopters and boats across about a square mile of their high desert town 30 miles east of Reno. “We had a 50-foot wall of water about 2 feet high going down Farm District Road,” said Lyon County Fire Chief Scott Huntley, one of the first on the scene after a section of the Truckee Canal up to 150 feet long broke just after 4 a.m.
“In some places folks had to deal with 8 feet of water,” he said. “Firefighters were in chest-deep water making rescues.”
