Mike Di
Mike Di
awesome county home monitor needs nobody responsibility stay wants water
It's an awesome responsibility to think that everyone in the county needs this water and nobody wants to get wet. You can't stay at home and monitor it.
carry last
A lot of that was carry over from last year.
changing good patterns period short since storm
The storm patterns are changing in a short period of time. Since 1995 we've been having good rainfall years.
act balancing information using
It's a daily, sometimes hourly, balancing act using all the information out there.
side starts stop water
If we make an error, we try to make it on the other side of the coin. Because once water starts flowing, you can't stop it.
almost anybody built cause flood gates large problems rapidly reason release smaller valley water
The reason that the smaller reservoirs cause problems is that they are not built for flood control. We don't have large flood gates to release water rapidly between storms. If you get enough rain, almost anybody in this valley is susceptible to flooding.
anticipate case problems
We don't anticipate any problems but it is a fast-moving storm. Just in case there are any problems we're gong to have our crews ready.
coming good reservoir shape storm
We're in pretty good shape for the storm coming in (Tuesday night). We think that we won't see any reservoir spilling.