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Originally posted by shadows
It is interesting to note that the flood on the Mingo in 84’ that created SWM was predicted as a 20% chance of rain. Until the others rivers pass their flooding an unpredicted rain storm in the Keystone basin could cause another 86’ flooding disaster.
Could happen, but I doubt they will make the same mistake they did in '84. As per a story in the World ten years later, they trusted rather unsophisticated devices relaying inflow of creeks upstream. Rather than immediately sending corpsmen to double check dubious readings from the equipment, they opted to wait till it was almost too late. Their upstream monitoring is better now. One of those cases where technology really is helping. Now its just a case of balancing out the flooded areas.