Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Steve's avatar

I’m voting for Doc Chambers! I heard the Nimitz was supposedly headed to Straights of Hormuz but now may be going back to Indo Pacific.

Expand full comment
L J L's avatar
1dEdited

I lived near Kerrville in 2008 and 2009 and learned about the extremes of the topography.

The ground is very hard in most places being filled with limestone boulder size down to Rip Rap size down to baseball size limestone of every kind. Construction is hampered by the cost of excavation and installation of all below ground infrastructure. Ask any land developer in the area.

The extremes of the hilly topography and surface limestone outcroppings everywhere make rainfall run-off very hazardous. Every year there are terrible stories of drowning victims caught by surprise in RAPID rising flood water that seems totally out of nowhere. It rises fast and goes down almost as fast.

However, in City of Kerrville there is Nimitz Lake and to South is Kerrville Lake. Both are elongated and controlled by dams built across the Guadalupe River. It looks like they are the only reservoirs in the region. So, with a torrential rain storm these two dams are most likely auto-programmed to begin releasing flood water to maintain the surface level of these two lakes. If not, the flood waters would go over the banks into City of Kerrville, but would not get very far out of the banks due to natural slope back into the Guadalupe River.

Google Map Link https://www.google.com/maps/@30.051495,-99.1588232,5966m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Those two lakes would be where I would start to determine the downstream catastrophe. Maybe the Flood Water Release Rate needs to be recalculated to prevent the downstream nightmares that just happened. Same principle applies to the Three Gorges Dam in China, but on much larger scale.

Expand full comment
23 more comments...

No posts