It reminds me that back in 1983 they had sandbags running down streets directing floodwater into the lake and the lake level was rising so fast that there were

It reminds me that back in 1983 they had sandbags running down streets directing floodwater into the lake and the lake level was rising so fast that there were crews working 24 hours a day to keep raising the dam so that the interstate highway didn't flood. The Union Pacific Railroad has a track that crosses part of the lake and they raised the track bed several times during that flood episode. I have photos I took of machinery hauling rock and materials from the interstate which was about 25 feet lower than the lake surface at the time. I have wondered why, instead of fighting to hold the lake off of the interstate, didn't they just let it go off across the salt flats while they built an elevated interstate highway section similar to that across Lake Pontchartrain. The level of the lake would've been lower though the shoreline and surface extents of the lake would be much larger. By continuously raising the dam level they forced the water level higher in the populated area and flooded many shoreline attractions. It's only water. Just let it go. It'll wash off.