Even so, he predicted that many issues could be battered further over the next six to nine months.
The researchers also insisted that the new levees could be battered down again if the corps did not armor them against erosion with concrete, rocks or other materials.
More heavy showers may hit the UK over the weekend and by the middle of next week parts of the country could be battered by gales again.
So, before the meat and cheese could be battered and breaded, the shaped mixture had to be coated in a fine flourlike substance called predust to dry the surface of the moist mixture.
The second involved drilling holes every two feet in his raft and running rope through them, so that the raft was lashed together like a basket — in other words, in a form that was supple, instead of a rigid form that could be battered apart in a storm.
They realize he could be battered as parts of his body go supersonic or subsonic at different times, but the impact is expected to be manageable because of the thin air at that altitude — or so the engineers and Mr. Baumgartner hope.
