Here is a video from them using it on 4/7/2019.
Actually looks fucking great. I never thought I'd say that but they got their shit in order.
I used to buy all the Cahill stuff too and still agree with him that bureaucracies will definitely kill us all.
What day did you talk to him OP?
How do you reconcile the "can't use the spillway" mantra with the video of them using the spillway last week???
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4466048 Talked to him earlier today.
They opened it up, looked good, ran it to 15,000 or maybe 20,000 cfs. Then they said they were going to run it to 60,000 cfs, last Friday if I remember right.
Then they shut it down. Full stop. No 60,000.
They saw something when they fired it up that worried them enough to stop it. Jack in VA on Twitter has some conjectures and pictures. Maybe the drains. They were out with flashlights at night over by what is being called the mystery spot. Cahill said it is water under the spillway, which I interpret to mean hydraulic lift starting to inch up the concrete. My guess only. Or water underneath starting to erode the foundation?
Yes, looked great, but that doesn't make rotten rock underneath great.
Hey, we will see. Better to be prepared for a failure, even if it holds up IMO.
