


Weekend review, GSA, and pumps.
I’ve not been keeping the blog up to date, though a lot’s going on here. My last post was about New Orleans, written before Gustav had formed. As I write this Monday morning it’s weakening and it looks as though New Orleans will be spared what...
New Orleans levees, St. Louis and the COE
Friday the AP reported on a year-long study it’s done of flood prevention work in New Orleans and public perception of the hazard. They claim to have tracked a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and legal fighting, along with economic and...
Flood in St. Louis, Em4 news, Detroit work.
Cara and I are closing in on our Detroit work reporting, here’s a little transect plot from that. I really hate doing all day science writing without coffee. Fifty-something more days. The Em4’s articulation mechanism will be done tomorrow, and Kate and I...