The 17th street canal levee that broke was solid concrete... A large number of the levees that are actually directly up against water (most of them are some distance from the water to allow for some flood area) have a concrete facing up against the water to protect from erosion.
A large number of the pumps seemed to have worked fine for a while... Some pumps on the west bank of the river are manually controlled diesel pumps (they're rarely needed) so those couldn't be started up...also their roofs blew off and they were claiming that no one could get to them to start things up.
They just built a brand new pumping station along the interstate along the evacuation route, and I believe those failed pretty quickly.
The last ones to go were just overwhelmed by the breach in the levee. Basically they were constantly pumping water into the lake, only to have it flow right back in. I can understand that a little bit more... They eventually overheated and shut down I believe.
I love the fantasy world slashdot creates where one ignorant person who won't read the article makes a comment and triggers a whole backlash of people who feel the need to make themselves look stupid by continuing the illusion.
If you have a dedicated fiber line to your house, then it doesn't matter how much traffic your putting on that individual line, but where does the traffic go after that?
At some point, the traffic has to run over high speed fiber links that are shared by everyone basically. The people who maintain those links need to charge someone money...the way that makes by far the most sense is to charge based on what percentage of the bandwidth you use. That costs trickles down to the consumer.
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The 17th street canal levee that broke was solid concrete... A large number of the levees that are actually directly up against water (most of them are some distance from the water to allow for some flood area) have a concrete facing up against the water to protect from erosion.
A large number of the pumps seemed to have worked fine for a while... Some pumps on the west bank of the river are manually controlled diesel pumps (they're rarely needed) so those couldn't be started up...also their roofs blew off and they were claiming that no one could get to them to start things up.
They just built a brand new pumping station along the interstate along the evacuation route, and I believe those failed pretty quickly.
The last ones to go were just overwhelmed by the breach in the levee. Basically they were constantly pumping water into the lake, only to have it flow right back in. I can understand that a little bit more... They eventually overheated and shut down I believe.
I love the fantasy world slashdot creates where one ignorant person who won't read the article makes a comment and triggers a whole backlash of people who feel the need to make themselves look stupid by continuing the illusion.
Yeah, we can have the Evil Bit and the "Please don't look at me" bit!
If you have a dedicated fiber line to your house, then it doesn't matter how much traffic your putting on that individual line, but where does the traffic go after that?
At some point, the traffic has to run over high speed fiber links that are shared by everyone basically. The people who maintain those links need to charge someone money...the way that makes by far the most sense is to charge based on what percentage of the bandwidth you use. That costs trickles down to the consumer.
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