Jackson Jambalaya

I have said it 1,000 times. The Rez. level should be dropped starting around Oct. or Nov.
You KNOW the rains are coming in Feb. - Apr. and would refill the Rez., and the flooding in Flowood & Jackson would not be as bad.

Pretty sure it was dropped this year to help get rid of the invasive plant they have in Petersnatchy Bay.

Hey Dummy (b/c you ain't got no Common Sense, all you had to do is Google Ross Barnett Level) , the Rez WAS lowered when they finally could lower it and it was 2 FEET lower on Dec 28th. Which just proves again that the REZ cannot be used for significant flood control. See that word "significant" it's an important word to understand, it doesn't mean zero, but it does mean the Rez doesn't lower downstream flooding an amount enough to make a difference.

I hope someone takes a shovel to the levee. Jackson needs the kind of bath New Orleans got.

I just would have hoped that they started discharging the water about 4 days before the expected rain. With the radar now days you can anticipate several days in advance and at least have a head start on it.

Lookout downstream!

For discharge issues penicillin usually fixes the problem.

@11:51

The level was dropped. I was driving the Natchez Trace last weekend. The entrances to Northbay and Twin Harbor looked to be barely accessible due to the low level. The shoreline all the way to Hwy 43 also showed how low the level was. As shallow as the RBR is it doesn't take much rainfall upstream to dramatically raise the level in a short period of time. RBR is not a flood control reservoir but they do an excellent job of controlling levels to help with flooding. The level in RBR cannot be allowed above a certain level or it will breach the dam. If you think Jackson has seen flooding in the past just wait until that happens.

I hope the people against the two lakes project all get flooded.

Funny how folks with common sense but lacking knowledge can be such big dumb bunnies at times.

Uhhh. It ain't Two Lakes no more, Hoss. It ain't been that for a while.

Now, asides from being unable to explain how filling wetland and flood plains with water (in order to build some McMansions) will "stop" or "reduce" flooding, and being unable to explain how they will pay for all the bridges which will be undermined, and not being able to explain WHY anyone would want that, the "project" for Flooded Homes Estates Subdivision (a Federal TaxPayer Subsidized "My Risk/Your Cost" unplanned community) is going GREAT!

Everybody, the smart fellers, sees all the increased rainfall and says, Uhhh Uhhh, I wanna build me a big ole house below a Dam in New Madrid Earthquake country with all this flooding going on! Sign me up! I took swim lessons at the Y! What could happen?

Beside, I can get on here and complain about the Corps of Engineers if I get flooded and sue the GubMint for my stupid decisions! The Tea Party way!

If I remember correctly at one time in 1979 they released about 125,000 to 150,000 cubic feet per second. They got a ways to go

I just stopped in to say I have a problem with this part of the press release: "...a rise on the lake caused by local rains over the last 24 hours."

It ain't 'local rains' that causing this situation. It's rain forty miles upstream as well. Take a look at the Big Black river from any highway crossing it and tell me it's 'local rain' that's causing it to be forty feet wider and seven feet deeper in water than normal.

Folks that think the Rez can be used as a flood control measure didn’t experience the Easter Flood/Flood of ‘79.

We get it. 2.57 and his Madison buddies do not want one lake.

It's global warming and a vast left wing conspiracy to deprive us of our precious bodily fluids.

I've seen John Sigman criticized some. What's the skinny on that guy? Competent or not? Don't know much about him.

9:35 - I've never seen his resume. Has anyone else? He's one arrogant guy for sure. Has two new ideas every year. None ever fly. Clean up the Rez. Charge boat fees. Clean up the neighborhoods and get boats out of yards. Build 500 thousand square foot houses. Build an off ramp on Trace to Lost Rabbit. Count on Mike Espy to accomplish that one. Impersonate G. Gordon Liddy (Wait - He actually did accomplish that one).

The river gauge on the Pearl at Ratliff's Ferry says the in-flow at the Reservoir is closer to 40.7 kcfs as of today. All the gauges up river are at minor flood stage today... I can't imagine what the map must have looked like back in '79 during that monsoon.

Before long it will be Spring and all of this will be water under the bridge.

//bada bing//

Cynical Sam says "Not to worry...that boil on your ass should clear up by start of summer".