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27-Feb-2019 Coleen Perilloux Landry

All that is needed to open the Spillway locks

These cranes, a little trolley and a few good men are all that is needed to open the Spillway. No electronics, no computers.....if it's not broken, don't try to improve on it. A man attaches the crane's hook to one of the "needles" in a bay, pulls it up and lays it across the opening. One by one.

Canon EOS 40D
1/500s f/16.0 at 17.0mm iso500 full exif

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Dennis Hoyne06-Mar-2019 01:10
We don’t need hitec for everything.
laine05-Mar-2019 09:08
I agree with Ed...
Ed Preston04-Mar-2019 14:43
New school could learn a lot from old school!
pkocinski04-Mar-2019 12:24
Agree - it works!
LynnH04-Mar-2019 03:43
It does look efficient. How nice that you had a sunny day. We had no sun during Feb. and 25 days of rain and fog. Feels like Seattle instead of Houston.
Hank Vander Velde04-Mar-2019 03:42
Nice image and good narrative Coleen. I agree, SIMPLE is often still the best.