What does this pile of rock have to due with Mercy General Hospital? A lot. The pile is pitifully small. A skip loader and a small fleet of trucks would eat it very quickly in a flood fight. Even though there are two piles of rock available, a levee break could swallow this pile shortly. Note on the blog of May the 9th how big breaks can be.
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An other unthinkable way to fight floods is to deliberately cut levees to save other levees. Flooding of Mercy General could be saved/slowe, but at a huge price.
The Shredder truck was back yesterday, making all it's noise. Mercy had found another spot for it these last months. Why is it back on the street?
An other unthinkable way to fight floods is to deliberately cut levees to save other levees. Flooding of Mercy General could be saved/slowe, but at a huge price.....................
The Shredder truck was back yesterday, making all it's noise. Mercy had found another spot for it these last months. Why is it back on the street?...................
Tomorrow, Saturday 8 am till noon (?) there is a big emergency exercise at Mercy General. It involves many agencies.
I would like to see a flood exercise meeting. A big flood emergency can be predicted. It depends on where the levee breaks and the height of water there. From that how long for the flood water to fill the basin. We were involved in a flood fight at Manteca with the San Joaquin River. It took 10 hours to fill the basin. Our levee held, but it took thousands of ton of rock haul in, and in a few short hours.
Is Mercy unprepared? Will it be like the hospitals in New Orleans?
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