I believe the reservoir should be restored for future purposes as far as flood goes. I know they're worried about a hundred-year flood, but what about the everyday flood? |
It does get blocked, and if we don't go over there and move debris from it, we have to deal with it because nobody else is gonna do it. |
Lately we've been having so much rain and everything so saturated, that the ground really cannot handle anymore so the only outlet is on the surface. |
Right now, at least they're doing the cleanup. That's very necessary. They're pulling out the tree from the sinkhole. |
The dam isn't the problem, it's the maintenance that's the problem. The state has abandoned this reservoir since maybe 8, going on 9 years now. |
They let this go. They got it to a point where they'd rather just see it breach on its own and damage or take lives. I just don't know what to say about the state. |
They're jumping the gun, they really are. There's a lot more to this than just opening the reservoir and turning it back to a natural stream, which it hasn't been a natural stream. It's no longer gonna be a controlled release. It's gonna be whatever comes down in the brunt of a flood. |
We did our phone tree calls to our neighbors to give them the report -- it's coming over. |
We went through two governors already, and now we're working on the third one. |
We've been very, very scared about the amount of water that's been coming over, afraid of breach, possibility. |