Back home, in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, there was a flash flood of the Little Missouri River at Camp Albert Pike in 2010. Twenty people died, half of them children.
The area has no cell phone service and the rains hit while people were asleep, there was no way to warn them that a 20 ft wall of water was coming. A high school friend of mine knew a young mother, 20 years old and her 3 year old son who drowned. The girl’s last Facebook post was about being so excited to see her son’s reaction to the river and camping. Many people that I grew up with searched for survivors, then bodies, on horseback.
Caddo Hills High School, in a town of 400 people, has reached the national finals of a Samsung contest for inventions, with their flood warning system. They could sure use some SDA getting results to get their vote count up. They currently only have 230 votes and are up against some big schools.
You can vote once daily. Thank you. You have to authenticate your vote to a good email address, they require a zip code. 90210
Need a ZIP code to register…
I used 90210, and it accepted it 🙂
90210 is perfect!
I entered ‘90152’ and voted.
The system should work, but in my opinion the info must be relayed to the people in the flood’s path, that was not covered. Perhaps an ‘air warning’ relay system? Remember those?
The sirens would screech. You would go into the hallways of the school and place your head between your legs (and kiss your butt good-bye).
The people downstream have to be alerted. That is the crux of the biscuit.
The area is remote. Other than the campground there are few people in the river’s path there. For me, this is as much about showing mountain kids that their ideas have value as it is about this specific project.
That scholol is a rival to the school I attended. They get like looked down on a lot from the other area schools, because the kids are generally poor.
I voted for a local response by dedicated folks.
The EPA Green Slime AGW weather folks should be doing these functions, but after todays House Hearing on the EPA it would seem they maybe eliminated, it is been considered. Republican members have taken the gloves off. The EPA lied to the committee today, or their lawyers lied to the Court in a lawsuit (she was bagged)
Done. Good project.
Liberals and eco-freaks and the Green Nuts will blame this on america for not buying into this Global Warming Climate Change poppycock like with that tsunami back in 2006 or when ever that hit on Boxing Day those Greenpeace Idiots tried to blame it on Global Warming
Done. There are off-the-shelf ultrasonic level transducers that could put to this use. Hang them on standards over the river, and link them together in a network. Probably could run them off solar panels and batteries. Solar power is well-suited to remote systems with very modest power demands. You would need some software to collate and compare the level readings from the transducer network, and establish what conditions must be satisfied to trigger an alarm. You don’t want the alarm to sound every time some tourist on a rubber raft passes under a transducer. I expect you’d want it to trigger on a sudden, but sustained increase in level, seen sequentially in several transducers in a row.
Obviously I’m dense, but I can’t figure out how to register my email address.
I am glad I am not alone with this………I thought I was having a “senior moment” or “sometimers”…..
Just start to vote & the authentication part will pop up.
I really appreciate all the suggestions. There are no light standards there, it is mostly wilderness. I will ask their teacher if I can post her contact info here, so y’all can send them to her.
Just start to vote & the authentication part will pop up.
I really appreciate all the suggestions. There are no light standards there, it is mostly wilderness. I will ask their teacher if I can post her contact info here, so y’all can send them to her.
Here’s a tip. I use it while in the US to authenticate purchases like gas etc. when the gas pump requires a zip code to process a credit card payment. Take the numbers in your postal code and add 2 zeros to the end. eg. If your postal code is P3A 4B9, simply enter 34900.
So far, it’s never failed me. I just used it to register my vote here and it worked fine.
We need flash floods in certian places like WASHINGTON D.C. to clean out the mess there and in other locations to also clean out the toxic wastes there(Liberals)and wash them all out to sea
Given the experience we had in southern Alberta in June 2013, I’m thinking this rig – or something like it – could have given more lead time in advance of the flooding. While we do have river level monitoring stations, they don’t warn residents directly of the approaching danger. Hope these kids can pull it off.
Them flash floods ain’t no joke…..
I recall an associate relating his brush with one.
He was on a training gig in an M60 tank…..Somebody yelled “button up” and they closed the hatches…..he said it was like being in a cement mixer as the vehicle tumbled……when it stopped…..they had been washed a klick er two down the coulee….
He said it wuz like the big guy had turned that coulee into a toilet, then flushed it. He said, the loader said, we “ain’t in Kansas“…..and promptly got some more bruises….
I ain`t named Williams…..that`s just what I was told….
Susan Gray sgrayphoto@gmail.com This is the teacher’s email, for those of y’all with technical suggestions.
Thank you so much.