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That time of the month on Morrissey Boulevard
By adamg on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:47am
Motorists are being warned today at the UMass turn on Morrissey Boulevard to abandon all hope or, at least, turn around, through Oct. 30. Sure enough, around 11 a.m., the road was down to just one lane and it was flooding by the yacht club, and you could see Dorchester Bay was impatiently lapping at the rocks between that and the Expressway, just waiting for the chance to get just a couple inches higher.
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Same with Quincy Shore Drive...
Experienced awful flooding there several years ago....
Seawall? Levee? Gigantic Vacuum Pump?
Blow up The Globe and make a new lake bed for the water to flow into?
I've often wondered about that flooding on Morrissey. One would think (I do, anyway) that there might be a reasonably inexpensive way to block the water from reaching the roadway.
Any engineers with ideas? Or reasons why it can't be done?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
block an ocean?
I'm sure it could be done, but who's going to pay for it?
The area that floods isn't exactly a problem for people, unless you need to use the road to get from A to B.
That said, if the world is warming as scientists think it is, this is going to become a much bigger problem, over a much wider area. I'm guessing the problem down there is from fill settling, but rising sea levels are going to produce quite a few headaches along the bays and shorelines of MA.
The Water will Stay-Free
Anything you put there to push away the water would push it into something else.
There are also the issues of both sea level rise (not here quite yet) and increasing storm activity and intensity (here now). Add in the NAO sucking storms up the atlantic and, well, anything you do that may be enough now, won't be enough in 20 years.
Swirly drops some knowledge on you fools!
look at that nonchalant reference to the North Atlantic Oscillation! Go for the gold - positive or negative?
By the way, how are you feeling about that idea a few months (year?) ago that a seawall could be constructed at the periphery of the outer islands to save us from sea level increases? I chuckled and said "looks like the old submarine nets!"
Ah yes ...
The Dutch took their hint from a near destruction of their country half a century ago and built coastal defenses based on 500 year extremes. In sixty years we might have something there ... but at what cost?
Or I might have waterfront property on the neotidal Mystic river.
DYKES
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That's Dutch hate speech.
That's Dutch hate speech.
A bit off-topic, but, during Hurricane Katrina,
(former) President G. W. Bush, in his own arrogant, acerbic way, totally rejected the opportunity to take some tips from the Dutch on how to update the levees, dams, etc., to protect from this kind of Biblical-proportion-type flooding. We're all paying the price of that right now, and forever will be.
Outer Islands!
Geez, I was just thinking along the lines of a big trench along the periphery of Morrissey, or a whole bunch of sandbags filled with miracle chamois cloths, or something else such as a ten-year-old or myself might imagine. Now all you folks are coming at me with North Atlantic Ocelots and ways to trap sandwiches. It must have been my suggestion to blow up The Globe.
Wait until somebody starts talking on this site about something I'm an expert at, like fast-pitch softball or The Three Stooges! Payback's a female dog, or so I've heard.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I think it floods up through
I think it floods up through the street drains well before it comes over the rocks there though.
All we need...
...is a big water-letter-outter. Nyuk nyuk nyuk...
Woob Woob Woob Woob!
I got one right here!
Curlydog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
It was doubly hard for
Edit
Does it flood twice every month?
Or just when rain coincides with the spring tides?
Tide height oscillates
Tide height oscillates through the year, from the high 7s to the low 12s in ft. at that site. Today is over 12 ft, which only happens a few times a year.
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow"
I thought I heard that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow? Evidently the Atlantic is still a work in progress. WTF?
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Can you give me
Egg, Bacon, Spam, and Sausage, but without the Spam then?
You can't have ....
.... egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Blimey
What kind of a restaurant does he think this is?
A Viking one?
See reference to King Canute below...
Time and tide wait for no man.
If neither King Canute nor Obama can stop the tide, what hope is there for anyone?
jeepers, was expecting
to read comments quite different than the informative stuff we got going here - thanks! I learned a few new things. you all are funny too.