Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics.

Originally Posted by MEANZ06

not exactly sure, but that looks like the US midwest. they are doing voluntary opening of flood gates on the mississippi river to save the metropolis areas. the rural areas are getting flooded...

Out here we build them to hold water, not houses!

Having said that, the company I worked for back in the Sixties had to build a levee bank around the satellite earth station I had worked at in Moree to prevent flood waters getting into the station. I think it was built after the station had been flooded, it wasn't there when I worked there in 1968-69.

One can just make it out in this aerial pic (the antenna dishes removed and sent to Oxford Falls, Sydney and Gnanagara, Perth).

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Hi Ron
The first flood 1972, was handled by everyone hand filling sand bags, and sand bagging the important buildings at the site. It wasnt long after that, that the levee was constructed, well in time for the 1976 flood.

If you look immediately to the north, there is a dam, which is where the earth was taken for the levee.

Interesting times.

Brian