I don't quite understand this photo from the front page of the Seattle Times, showing people on the downtown Mount Vernon Riverwalk, standing where the flood wall is.
Except the flood wall is about ten feet tall, and is not at all in evidence in this photo.
Just yesterday Nephew Jason emailed video showing the flood wall, and commenting that he had to stand on his car's roof to see over it.
You can see that video below.
The downtown Mount Vernon flood wall is designed to install quickly by just a few installers, when the need arises. And to be taken down equally fast.
A huge improvement over the former sandbagging method of saving downtown Mount Vernon from getting inundated by the Skagit River.
The flood control wall was just part of a $25 million riverfront rebuild in downtown Mount Vernon. If I remember right the flood wall cost something like $8 million of the $25 million.
Meanwhile, there is this backwards town in Texas with imaginary flooding issues, trying to get the rest of America to pay around a billion bucks to build an un-needed flood control system in an area which has not flooded in well over half a century because of flood control levees the rest of America paid for way back in the 1950s.
I read yesterday that Fort Worth is starting the process of taking the land needed to dig the cement lined ditch that will go under the three little bridges which took seven years to build, creating an imaginary island, solving an imaginary flood control problem.
I would have thought that the land for the ditch had already been acquired. I suspect soon more classic Fort Worth eminent domain abuse will be underway, taking property for an imaginary public works project the public has never voted to support.
And people wonder why I refer to that Texas town as being backwards....
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