The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blew up a two-mile section of the Birds Point levee Monday night, inundating about 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland in a desperate attempt to ease flooding in towns in Illinois and Kentucky.
Water levels did recede but a second, smaller section was detonated Tuesday afternoon to allow water back into the river. A third and last blast was scheduled for Wednesday but was delayed until 1 p.m. on Thursday...
How serious is this? Well, for openers, tributaries to the Mississippi are flowing BACKWARDS.
Then there's this:
Arkansas closed a 15-mile stretch of westbound lanes of one of the busiest road arteries in the nation, Interstate 40, for the time ever due to flooding,...
And it will get worse.
"Compared to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 this flood is going to be a lot nastier," said Marty Pope, senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Jackson [MS]
The Mississippi is rising along the Wisconsin border, too, but it's a typical spring increase, not like what's going on south of the Ohio river junction.
HT: McCain
Well Well Welll, you have the Osama Smoke screen, and repressed news about flooding and lets go ahead and add this little problem to the mix while nobody is looking lets steal some more while they look the other way........
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