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05-02-2011, 06:41 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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|  Hope you MO boys are wearing your floaties...
They are going to blow the MS river levee tonight! Good luck!!
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05-02-2011, 06:45 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: ST LOUIS.MO
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05-02-2011, 06:45 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: *
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05-02-2011, 06:46 PM
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| Adilynsdad too! Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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SIKESTON, Mo. – The Army Corps of Engineers planned to blow a nearly two-mile-wide hole in an earthen levee late Monday, unleashing a muddy torrent into empty farm fields in a desperate bid to save an Illinois town from rising floodwaters. Engineers announced their intention to carry out the blast after spending hours pumping liquid explosives into the Birds Point levee near tiny Cairo, Ill. The first explosion was to happen not long after nightfall. But doubts persisted about whether breaking open the levee would provide the relief needed. How much water would the blast really divert from the Mississippi River? And will authorities have to do the same thing at other trouble spots downstream? Time was running short to find answers. Five more inches of rain fell overnight, further straining the floodwall protecting tiny Cairo, Ill. And still more was in the forecast. The seemingly endless rain has overwhelmed rivers and strained levees, including one protecting Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The Ohio River at Cairo had climbed to more than 61 feet as of Monday, a day after eclipsing the 1937 record of 59.5 feet. The river was expected to crest late Wednesday or early Thursday at 63 feet — just a foot below the level that Cairo's floodwall is built to hold back — before starting a slow decline by Friday. The high water has raised concerns about the strain on the floodwalls in Cairo and other cities. The agency has been weighing for days whether to blow open the Birds Point levee, which would inundate 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland. Engineers believe sacrificing the levee could reduce the water levels at Cairo by about 4 feet in less than two days. Meteorologist Beverly Poole of the National Weather Service put the figure closer to five feet. "These are uncharted territories, but it would be very fast," she said. Carlin Bennett, the presiding Mississippi County commissioner, said he was told a 10- to 15-foot wall of water would come pouring through the breach. "Tell me what that's going to do to this area?" he said. "It's a mini-tsunami." Crews planned to begin the detonation sometime between 9 p.m. Monday and midnight. The first blast was expected to be the most intense. Two more series of explosions were scheduled, with the second one occurring sometime after 1 a.m. Tuesday and the third going off around midday. The demolition was expected to cover about 11,000 feet of the levee. Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh — the man ultimately responsible for the decision to go through with the plan_ has indicated that he may not stop there if blasting open the Missouri levee does not do the trick. In recent days, Walsh has said he might also make use of other downstream "floodways" — basins surrounded by levees that can intentionally be blown open to divert floodwaters. Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway near Morgan City, La., and the Bonnet Carre floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre, which was christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008. |
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05-02-2011, 06:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: sittin in the sky
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ive got the boats ready!
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05-02-2011, 06:55 PM
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| Adilynsdad too! Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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05-02-2011, 06:55 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 8 feet underground
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All that makes me think I might not miss living in Semo Then throw these in the mix  http://www.kfvs12.com/story/14551421...topping-levee# http://www.semissourian.com/story/1723671.html |
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05-02-2011, 06:57 PM
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| Suck it up!   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Why are they doing it at night? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it when you can see what is going on?
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05-02-2011, 07:01 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: ST LOUIS.MO
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05-02-2011, 07:03 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: back where I belong
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05-03-2011, 10:05 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Thornton
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So, now we are going to have to spend hundreds of millions rebuilding farm land instead of ten or so million to rebuild a town of 2,800 that already evacuated? Then on top of this we are going to have food and fuel prices driven up because of the farmlands that were effected? Not to mention that that levy is there for a reason, and will now also have to have the two mile hole rebuilt, granted that creates some jobs for a little while but so does rebuilding a small town. Good call government....  |
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05-03-2011, 10:10 AM
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| R.I.P. Chip  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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You'd think after hundreds of years of flooding every single year people would learn something and pack up and move.
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05-03-2011, 10:12 AM
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| I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage!
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1993 all over again.  |
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05-03-2011, 10:12 AM
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| Pebble Pounder  Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: St. Louis
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Not only that but the Cor. Put in Clearwater dam to prevent this. That dam destroyed Logan creek, displaced farmers, and thus starved out a lot of the fish/wildlife upstream. And now both sides of the dam are suffering much worse than if they had left it alone. Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk |
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05-03-2011, 11:09 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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05-03-2011, 02:17 PM
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05-03-2011, 02:42 PM
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05-03-2011, 04:14 PM
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| Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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05-03-2011, 04:19 PM
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05-03-2011, 06:37 PM
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| Adilynsdad too! Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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The bowfishing has been great... just saying |
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