The Mississippi River floods are near the end of the line Baton Rouge and New Orleans and the Delta. Many cities and town have been flooded due to the this past winter snows and recent rains. Parts of Memphis and Tunica, MS have serious flooding. Up river The Army Corps of Engineers blew up levees new Cairo, Ill late last week. Now the Army Corp of Engineers will open the Morganza Spillway Saturday to relieve the pressure on the Mississippi. Thousands have been evacuated from the spillway area. From AP via Yahoo News:
In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in harm’s way when the gates on the Morganza spillway are unlocked for the first time in 38 years.
“Protecting lives is the No. 1 priority,” Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said aboard a boat from the river at Vicksburg, Miss., hours before the decision was made to open the spillway.
The opening will release a torrent that could submerge about 3,000 square miles under as much as 25 feet of water in some areas but take the pressure off the downstream levees protecting New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the numerous oil refineries and chemical plants along the lower reaches of the Mississippi.
Keep the communitites in the path and those that have been affected by recent flooding in the Mississippi River Valley.
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It is funny that ther e are no calls for the impeachment of the president or the removal of the homeland security head when we are sacrificing the few for the many by flooding their properties to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I sure hope these people will receive the benefits that were showered upon residents of New Orleans after Katrina. This is an improbabability (sp-slang) because these people did not have a race card or any other card to hold up to the powers that be.
It appears that I can’t post my views without them being moderated on this website although I thought it was press. The press can control the public opinion through omission and insinuation , but my comment will not be posted because in their view it is in some way not politically correct.