CBSLocal | ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - An expert on Missouri River reservoirs is sounding a very loud, very urgent warning about the chance of catastrophic flooding this summer.Bernard Shanks, an adviser to the Resource Renewal Institute, says the Fort Peck Dam and five others along the Missouri are already full with the Army Corps of Engineers releasing record amounts of water to prepare for snow-melt and heavy rain up-river.
As a guest on KMOX’s Total Information AM Wednesday, Shanks was asked what he fears will happen should the Fort Peck Dam fail and set off a chain-reaction.
“There would be a flood like you’ve never seen,” Shanks told hosts Doug McElvein and Debbie Monterrey. “It would be literally of biblical proportions.”
He foresees a very real threat of “chest-high” water in St. Louis before summer’s end.
Shanks’ main concern: that the Fort Peck dam, which he maintains is built with a “flawed design”, would be overwhelmed by snow-melt and heavy rains up north and give way, causing reservoirs downstream to collapse in a domino effect.
If that happens?
“It would be the most epic man-made disaster in the United States,” Shanks replied bluntly.
He says most of the dams holding back water along the Missouri River are 50 to 70 years old, and like people they tend to weaken with time.
“I have followed this issue for 40 years, and I have never seen them more at-risk than they are today,” Shanks warned.
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The Flood has often been regarded as a mere legend. Especially those people who believe in the theory of evolution do not believe that the Flood has ever taken place. It is impossible for them to think that it has ever occurred on Earth.
However, we should ask ourselves whether the Flood really took place. If we make practical observations based on what has been found in the ground, the fossils and traditional folklore, they quite often refer to the Flood. These indicate that a large mass destruction took place in the immediate past. The following paragraphs will deal with these different sources of information, referring to the Flood.
Chapter 1 - The mass graves of animals and fossils
Chapter 2 - Marine creatures discoveries on mountains and dry land
Chapter 3 - Carbon and Oil
Chapter 4 - The devastation of dinosaurs
The whole article is here: http://www.jariiivanainen.net/theflood.html
I have to chuckle.
#1, the population at the time of Noah firmly believed the world was flat, and could not have concieved of 'the other side of the world.'
#2, Dinosaurs were gone long before humans (homo sapiens sapiens) appeared.
#3, If we presume all the world perished except Noah and his family, then the process of re-populating the world would be a story of incest.
It was a necessary story to repeat to the ignorant, unwashed masses. But not now.
you know brotherbrown, that modern genetic science shows beyond any doubt that there have been some very fierce species bottlenecks....,
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