Non-political 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Megathread

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This is the real threat to national security. If we spent a fraction of the money we do on military, border patrol, and the drug war as we did on preventing and handling natural disasters, many lives could be saved.

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The reservoirs are still rising. Overflow is becoming inevitable at this point.

This these 1940s-style dams break, it will make Hurricane Katrina look like high tide on a calm summer evening.

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The reservoirs are still rising. Overflow is becoming inevitable at this point.

This these 1940s-style dams break, it will make Hurricane Katrina look like high tide on a calm summer evening.

Weren't they releasing some water to prevent that from happening?

They are releasing like 4000 acre-gallons (the max), and its filling up with like 42,000 acre-gallons in the same amount of time.