USGS Provides Excellent Interactive Map of Real'Time Flood and High Flow Conditions
Editilla notes~This is a trident example of how the USGS is NOT to be confused with the Exquixotic Corps of Engineers. For one thing, the most salient distinction is that these folks are Civilians--which has taken on dark and ill-defined Kafkaesque definitions within the Body Politic of the post-9/11 Patriot Act. But for another thing, the way that the USGS site actually works makes it look so easy...just simply move your curser along their map and read river levels Right Now. As sited in yesterday's Ladda'Ranttilla, the US Geological Survey has provided the American tax-payers with accurate River Flow information for over 100 years, due to the way they actually get their hands wet when they work in the River, and so hence have become the ignored "whipping boy" (translate: competition for funding with the Corps of Engineers Big Dog Turf Pissing). But hey, if it's good enough for Mark Twain then it is good enough for yer arrant Editilla d"Aphasia!
The USGS (Gumbo) has always been an historically different group of American Engineers and Scientists, entirely apart from the entrenched, inbred, ingrown toe-jammed, malfunctional, borderline delusional, a'tad addled bureaucracy we have come to know and trust:
The Exquixotic Corps of 'Engineers' (cold stone soup).
USGS (Aged Bourbon) presents us with--nay, hands us on a tax-plated silver platter--a proven and unassailable record of thoroughness and accuracy in all their work--expectations which we have come to regard with the deepest of cynicism for the compromised and incompetent USACE (cheap gutter swill).
So, gentle readers, call the USGS when you need vitally important information. Even the feel of their website is pleasantly different...more civil. I dare say even...fun for da'little'rillas too!
As anyone can see from the maps, the entire heart of our nation is flooded today! To put it bluntly, We are in a World of Shit.
And That World is happening Right Now--so we don't need more feces'ousness from the Corps of Engineers' PR flak'jockey Eric Hughes, more delayed studies, more horse'ass press conferences, more arrogant trickled down piss-information regarding Our Rivers, Our Levees or Our Safety.
| 3812 Total Gauges |  3 Gauges: Major Flooding |
| 135 Locations in Flood |  27 Gauges: Moderate Flooding |
 105 Gauges: Minor Flooding | |
 326 Gauges: Observations older than 24 hours |  129 Gauges: Near Flood Stage |
 15 Gauges: Out of Service |  3207 Gauges: No Flooding |
Site gives access to Corps plans~"This is a definite improvement, but there are still issues to be done," said Matt Rota, a program director with Gulf Restoration Network and member of an environmental coalition tracking and responding to the IERs (Individual Environmental Reports).
Editilla schillas~Lay low & behold da'joyfl Ho fo'da synchronisticalities emmergent wit'indaaa, errah, info'immunoresponse of our Body Politic and who runs this site!
Editorilla infillas, syzygates and rides the line into escatalia~Sometimes we getz carried awayz here high up on da'Ladda. You t'ink Gollum gotta'prollum?
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That's all I'm sayin...miss me diamond dagger.
We can't take it on trust
Editorilla wanna tol'ya~thank you very much, 'bout~damn' Times Picayune! However the absence of any mention of the relentless 'Calling of the Corps' by our heroes at Levees.org leaves one to ponder...
...whassd'fkup wit'dat, fool?
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Flooding D.C. with requests for help~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to award a contract worth $40 million or more this summer to relocate Napa Valley Wine Train tracks near downtown.
Editilla chin'chillas~WOW! How Forking Icehole COOL is that, huh? Sounds like another one-0-them $4.9 M Equixotic Earwicks--only X-10? In the venerable woids of da'Great Yogitilla, "when you come to a fork in the levee take it" or "4.9 million dollars here...40 million there...pretty soon you're talking over the ghosts of 1000 drowned civilians for a Wine Train in Napa Valley and new offices for the Corps of Engineers in downtown Tuscaloosa, AL." or..."Now ain't that justa buncha
Sour Grapes of Wraft!"
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