Comments on: After a Sunday Afternoon Lookey-Lou http://www.bengfort.com/benjamin/after-a-sunday-afternoon-lookey-lou/ The Bengfort Global Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Benjamin http://www.bengfort.com/benjamin/after-a-sunday-afternoon-lookey-lou/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Benjamin Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:51:25 +0000 http://www.bengfort.com/?p=437#comment-37 I know- they've been using these one ton sand baskets that have been used by the military in Afghanistan to create dikes- it's actually pretty cool. I don't know how much of that has been done on the Sheyenne, but we haven't seen any as we've been around. Actually, they have been pretty creative- especially with methods for blowing up ice blocks. Now they are using an invented device to apply salt directly to an ice floe-- I'm pretty sure no one has told the EPA about that yet! I mentioned Lookey-Lou in my post the Civicus of Floods; apparently this is the term for when someone goes out into the flood to simply watch or gawk and not to fight it. These people are targets for conscription into sand bag armies or can actually be arrested because people hate them so much! But don't worry: we are engineers trying to determine patterns in rural flow rates so that we can correctly strategize our flood fighting efforts (yeah, we're getting arrested)! I know- they’ve been using these one ton sand baskets that have been used by the military in Afghanistan to create dikes- it’s actually pretty cool. I don’t know how much of that has been done on the Sheyenne, but we haven’t seen any as we’ve been around.

Actually, they have been pretty creative- especially with methods for blowing up ice blocks. Now they are using an invented device to apply salt directly to an ice floe– I’m pretty sure no one has told the EPA about that yet!

I mentioned Lookey-Lou in my post the Civicus of Floods; apparently this is the term for when someone goes out into the flood to simply watch or gawk and not to fight it. These people are targets for conscription into sand bag armies or can actually be arrested because people hate them so much!

But don’t worry: we are engineers trying to determine patterns in rural flow rates so that we can correctly strategize our flood fighting efforts (yeah, we’re getting arrested)!

]]> By: Dad http://www.bengfort.com/benjamin/after-a-sunday-afternoon-lookey-lou/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Dad Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:17:48 +0000 http://www.bengfort.com/?p=437#comment-36 Today's Post reported that helicopters were dropping 1-ton sandbags into the Red River. Anything like that being done in the Sheyenne? Also, explain "lookey-lou!" Today’s Post reported that helicopters were dropping 1-ton sandbags into the Red River. Anything like that being done in the Sheyenne? Also, explain “lookey-lou!”

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