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This is the front of the levee at Barker Reservoir just to the side of the spillway. It’s almost 40 ft high. The backside is higher as the reservoir is dug down to hold more water. The levee stretches roughly 72,000 feet long to make the downstream sides of the reservoir.
Addicks Reservoir, on the other side of the interstate, rises 50 ft on the outside, deeper inside, and stretches nearly 61,000 ft.
Together they are about 26,000 acres of land, and are designed to hold about 510,000,000 cubic meters of water. Yes, you read that right.
During Hurricane Harvey, both reservoirs filled to dangerously near the top levels. If water had started to spill over the top of these earthen dams, they could erode and the whole levee would collapse basically killing everyone.
The point of this is just to help people who weren’t here to see just exactly how much water was sitting in these reservoirs during the storm, and once they started releasing water to prevent catastrophic failure, why the flooding was so incredible.
It should be noted both of these are dry reservoirs, meaning they only fill with water when it rains. Otherwise they are regular nature preserves with parks and bike paths and baseball fields and BBQ pavilions.
That’s how much rain fell. And that’s how much water came out and met the regular runoff and put 41” of water in our house.
The students and teachers of Perspectives Middle Academy (located in Auburn Gresham) are making tremendous academic and social emotional learning growth. Just this past year SY 2013-2014, they made almost two (2) grade levels of growth in both math and reading.
Photos by David Terry
Perspectives
by Trey Watkins.
Blocks sized from about 6 inches high (the "A" in Giant) to about 10 feet high (the "G" in Giant) - There were actually 4 partial messages spelled out in blocks, which were viewed from chairs in separate viewing positions. The complete message read "One Small Step for Burning Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind," however, " "Burning Man" was not spelled out. Instead, the viewer looked through an outline of a block and saw "The Man" on his tower.
from our third day in TX
and our lovely photo shoot with the Jeffreys.
In which we discovered windchill does exist in Texas,
Texans can wear parkas [though, their definition of cold is much different]
If you wait, the squad car will leave, & you will be able to climb the fire escape
Shopping carts and camera timers are tricky things to coordinate
Serial killers don't have to be mentally disturbed if they just look the part
Red is a disputable color
Coordinating 4 people to jump at the same time can be ridiculously difficult
Old alleyways are full of interesting things.
David's shoes are still famous