area flooding - Page 3

Elspode · 06-29-2006, 12:21 PM

Nice new swimming and kayaking facility they've built, there. Concession stand probably should be set back a little further from the course, though.

Griff · 06-29-2006, 01:37 PM

Ty Cobb Stadium. Artificial surface because it is so close to the river. Lets see what it looks like in a week.

SteveDallas · 06-29-2006, 01:59 PM

I learned today that Knoebels Amusment Park in Elysburg, PA is flooded.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-29-2006, 02:09 PM

Water parks are cool too.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-29-2006, 02:25 PM

It would appear that some God's creatures don't mind.

Undertoad · 06-29-2006, 03:17 PM

I drove back through Riverview and it was fine. Turns out the ground floor of all those apartments is all garages. So they figured on this.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-30-2006, 07:01 PM

That was a smart move, I wonder if the Township required it or they were thinking ahead?

The ducks and geese were swimming merrily around but what about the other critters?

Elspode · 07-01-2006, 01:05 AM

Is that a groundhog?

Ibby · 07-01-2006, 03:05 AM

Not anymore...

Katkeeper · 07-01-2006, 05:28 AM

Thinking ahead about flood plains - in many areas building is not allowed unless the structures can survive flooding without too much damage. I bought a house that had been severely flooded after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The Redevelopment Authority required that during the renovation all electrical boxes, furnaces, etc., had to be located above the 100 year flood level. New buildings were built with garages on the first floors just as in the Riverview Apts., I think in part because they could not get flood insurance unless they did so. I have stayed in a new Hyatt Hotel in Covington KY which has the lobby on the second floor, and 2 sets of elevators. You take one from the ground floor to the lobby and a second one from the lobby to the floors above. Inconvenient to do with luggage, but flood proof.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-01-2006, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Is that a groundhog?

Yes.

Clodfobble · 07-01-2006, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katkeeper

...2 sets of elevators. You take one from the ground floor to the lobby and a second one from the lobby to the floors above. Inconvenient to do with luggage, but flood proof.

I don't get it. Can't the water come up one elevator shaft, spread across the lobby floor, then go up the other elevator shaft?

Trilby · 07-01-2006, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Can't the water come up one elevator shaft, spread across the lobby floor, then go up the other elevator shaft?

Only if it can press the buttons.

Katkeeper · 07-01-2006, 06:32 PM

True. The lobby is on the second floor because it is well above the 100 year flood level. The elevators to upper floors, and, more importantly, the wiring and mechanisms that run them, are also above that level. The elevators from the ground floor to the lobby have separate wiring, etc.

Katkeeper · 07-01-2006, 06:41 PM

I Forgot to mention that Covington is on the Ohio River whch can have some fierce floods. The Ky side of the river is mostly flood plain. Newport, east of Covington but still on the Ohio River, has large, impressive levees to protect it.

Levees, by the way, are a temporary solution. While they keep the river out of the flood plain, the river tends to build up silt deposits on its bed instead of depositing the silt on the flood plain where it used to pre-levee. Gradually the river bed gets higher so that the levees are less effective. Hence, dredging is needed to remove the silt from the river bed. When we mess around with the forces of nature, we have to be really careful...

06-29-2006, 12:21 PM	#31
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Nice new swimming and kayaking facility they've built, there. Concession stand probably should be set back a little further from the course, though. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-29-2006, 01:37 PM	#32
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Ty Cobb Stadium. Artificial surface because it is so close to the river. Lets see what it looks like in a week. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

06-29-2006, 01:59 PM	#33
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I learned today that Knoebels Amusment Park in Elysburg, PA is flooded. Last edited by SteveDallas; 06-29-2006 at 02:11 PM.

06-29-2006, 02:09 PM	#34
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Water parks are cool too. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-29-2006, 02:25 PM	#35
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It would appear that some God's creatures don't mind. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:51 PM.

06-29-2006, 03:17 PM	#36
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I drove back through Riverview and it was fine. Turns out the ground floor of all those apartments is all garages. So they figured on this.

06-30-2006, 07:01 PM	#37
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That was a smart move, I wonder if the Township required it or they were thinking ahead? The ducks and geese were swimming merrily around but what about the other critters? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:51 PM.

07-01-2006, 01:05 AM	#38
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Is that a groundhog? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

07-01-2006, 03:05 AM	#39
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Not anymore... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

07-01-2006, 05:28 AM	#40
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	Thinking ahead about flood plains - in many areas building is not allowed unless the structures can survive flooding without too much damage. I bought a house that had been severely flooded after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The Redevelopment Authority required that during the renovation all electrical boxes, furnaces, etc., had to be located above the 100 year flood level. New buildings were built with garages on the first floors just as in the Riverview Apts., I think in part because they could not get flood insurance unless they did so. I have stayed in a new Hyatt Hotel in Covington KY which has the lobby on the second floor, and 2 sets of elevators. You take one from the ground floor to the lobby and a second one from the lobby to the floors above. Inconvenient to do with luggage, but flood proof.

07-01-2006, 06:32 PM	#44
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	True. The lobby is on the second floor because it is well above the 100 year flood level. The elevators to upper floors, and, more importantly, the wiring and mechanisms that run them, are also above that level. The elevators from the ground floor to the lobby have separate wiring, etc.

07-01-2006, 06:41 PM	#45
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	I Forgot to mention that Covington is on the Ohio River whch can have some fierce floods. The Ky side of the river is mostly flood plain. Newport, east of Covington but still on the Ohio River, has large, impressive levees to protect it. Levees, by the way, are a temporary solution. While they keep the river out of the flood plain, the river tends to build up silt deposits on its bed instead of depositing the silt on the flood plain where it used to pre-levee. Gradually the river bed gets higher so that the levees are less effective. Hence, dredging is needed to remove the silt from the river bed. When we mess around with the forces of nature, we have to be really careful...

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