Parts of Detroit under water

We are heading there for the NASCAR weekend on Thursday.Hopefully things will be better.

wa8yxm wrote:
I was a State Police dispatcher in Detroit for 25 years.. This is the 2nd time in my memory this has happened.. First time shut down parts of the system for days.. Folks where yammering about how the freeways (We called them Ditches since they are dug down for sound control) were designed to drain into the river if it flooded (not at all true in case anyone is wondering, that was NOT a design consideration and it is NOT how it works when this happens).

The problem is a combination of two or sometimes 3 things

Trash blocks the drain grates This is due to littering, and "Blow off" from trucks (Epically garbage haulers) and such preventing proper draining.

And in a really super soaker of a storm the pump houses . Just can not pump fast enough.

Add to that some folks will dump "Hardware" into a pump pit, and break the pumps. (The optional 3rd cause) and you have a flood.

Last time one of my Sgt's took a copter ride over the city with Pat Monk.... Who did not have a passenger side door on his copter so the poor sgt was ... In the rain.

Could also be pipe stolen from pumping stations by scrap thieves.


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That too I suspects.... That too.. Some of thoe copper thieves are kind of bold.

IN fact one or two have earned Darwin Awards..... You see, they tried to steal power lines.. High tension transmission lines (not the drops to the house but the pole to pole wires) and ..... the wires were LIVE at the time.

Result: Flash fried Darwin winner.

Born and raised in Detroit, moved out 30 years ago. Sorry to hear about the problems they are having, my mother's old house was in Warren and I guess they really got hit hard with flooding. But I still shake my head at the city and the people. Stolen pipes, trash in the street, etc... Then you go over the bridge into Winsor where everything is nice, clean, safe, and orderly.

Like I say "Detroit is a great place TO BE FROM." ;)

I wonder if a pipeline from Detroit to California would accomplish a couple of things:

1) Bring a lot more income into Detroit.

AND

2) Bring a lot more water into CA reservoirs, wells, and springs.

Detroiters never had it so good. I'm having water trucked in for our stick house at $$$ per load. :(