> considering the dam didn't fail? > the tennessee vally authority is just one dam. the tva, and every other department dedicated to water management, is a huge and complicated machine designed to generate power and keep 7 million people from getting washed into the gulf. 40 inches of rain is biblical fuckery and a hideous disaster, but it certainly seems that a century of build-out has been destroyed in a day. there are questions to be asked.
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