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Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:12 pm to LSUDad
Some people are ignorant as shite.
Yesterday, we watch a local telecast of COE giving updaes of our situation locally. He went into detail about how "sand boils" are to be expected, they are normal and will be dealt with on a case by case basis.
10 min later I hear one of the guys in there with us say "The guy from the Corp said its going the break and theres nothing they can do about it." I said, dude thats nnot what the guy said.
Take out ignorance and rumors and this damn thing would be slightly more tolerable.
Yesterday, we watch a local telecast of COE giving updaes of our situation locally. He went into detail about how "sand boils" are to be expected, they are normal and will be dealt with on a case by case basis.
10 min later I hear one of the guys in there with us say "The guy from the Corp said its going the break and theres nothing they can do about it." I said, dude thats nnot what the guy said.
Take out ignorance and rumors and this damn thing would be slightly more tolerable.
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:25 pm to TigerTatorTots
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I think the 23rd is the crest for BR
Thats the word.
The river traffic at BTR may be closed Wednesday. Ships and barges are still moving on the river, as for now.
Also to add, all towboats going through the locks South of the I-10 Bridge must have an assist tug.
This post was edited on 5/8/11 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:31 pm to LSUDad
Alligators swimming in the cotton field in front of my camp. We still have a a ways to go but I think I will be ok. My camp is North of Natchez FWIW
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:34 pm to The Dude
The Corps had everyone scared stiff in Caruthersville, Missouri. Said that the river would crest at 49.5 feet and the floodwall stands at 50.0. The river crested today at 47.2. These are the same nimrods who intentionally flooded 133,000 acres of prime farmland to save a deteriorated ghetto.
Then the Missouri National Guard ran six boats aground in the BPNM Floodway doing what only they know. Three boats with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and one from Sikeston DPS grounded trying to rescue them. Finally they had to be evacuated using Black Hawk helicopters. There is not a single redneck in Mississippi County, Missouri, who would have been ignorant enough to take anything into the center of the floodway larger than an eight foot jon boat.
This would all be hilarious if it were not so tragic.
Then the Missouri National Guard ran six boats aground in the BPNM Floodway doing what only they know. Three boats with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and one from Sikeston DPS grounded trying to rescue them. Finally they had to be evacuated using Black Hawk helicopters. There is not a single redneck in Mississippi County, Missouri, who would have been ignorant enough to take anything into the center of the floodway larger than an eight foot jon boat.
This would all be hilarious if it were not so tragic.
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:37 pm to RhodeIslandRed
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Then the Missouri National Guard ran six boats aground in the BPNM Floodway doing what only they know. Three boats with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and one from Sikeston DPS grounded trying to rescue them.
Link please
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:37 pm to Choirboy
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Alligators swimming in the cotton field in front of my camp.
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:37 pm to RhodeIslandRed
Been out working in yard all afternoon. Just now saw that the BR crest has been moved up a day to 5/22.
Ms Rvr Forecast Level
Ms Rvr Forecast Level
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:46 pm to RhodeIslandRed
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he Corps had everyone scared stiff in Caruthersville, Missouri. Said that the river would crest at 49.5 feet and the floodwall stands at 50.0. The river crested today at 47.2. These are the same nimrods who intentionally flooded 133,000 acres of prime farmland to save a deteriorated ghetto.
Then the Missouri National Guard ran six boats aground in the BPNM Floodway doing what only they know. Three boats with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and one from Sikeston DPS grounded trying to rescue them. Finally they had to be evacuated using Black Hawk helicopters. There is not a single redneck in Mississippi County, Missouri, who would have been ignorant enough to take anything into the center of the floodway larger than an eight foot jon boat.
This would all be hilarious if it were not so tragic.
i really don't have a lot of sympathy for the farmers there or in the Morganza....they all know/knew they are in a floodway...now if it were like a 1927 demolition of the levees in St. Bernard Parish, where there was no floodway, that's a different story....
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:51 pm to RhodeIslandRed
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These are the same nimrods
He Red, they put the info into the models, this is what it gives them. Would it have been better for them to say that it would crest at 47.2 but end up at 49.5?
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Missouri National Guard
Not the USCOE....
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:53 pm to RhodeIslandRed
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These are the same nimrods who intentionally flooded 133,000 acres of prime farmland to save a deteriorated ghetto.
Weren't they required by federal statute to blow the Bird Point-New Madrid levee? It's not like they just woke up one morning and said "Hey let's frick over a bunch of farmers to save Cairo!"
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:53 pm to Choirboy
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:57 pm to vl100butch
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i really don't have a lot of sympathy for the farmers there or in the Morganza....they all know/knew they are in a floodway
Including the ones who lived there, owned the land and fought the Jadwin Plan in Federal court before it became a floodway?
This post was edited on 5/8/11 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:57 pm to LSUDad
Dad,
That fella would have been in awe at all the gators that Choirboy is talking about in front of our camps. They were everywhere you looked.
That fella would have been in awe at all the gators that Choirboy is talking about in front of our camps. They were everywhere you looked.
Posted on 5/8/11 at 8:57 pm to LSUDad
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He Red, they put the info into the models...
You think maybe hydrology is an inexact "science?"
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Not the USCOE....
See the above link.
This post was edited on 5/8/11 at 9:00 pm
Posted on 5/8/11 at 9:01 pm to RhodeIslandRed
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See the above link.
The article was written with a touch of smartassness IMO the whole deal was
Posted on 5/8/11 at 9:04 pm to vl100butch
I still have sympathy and so should you. I don't have as much as I would for someone whose property is not on a designed floodplain, but I certainly still have sympathy for someone losing their livelihood, their home, property that's been in their family, etc. For all you know the people that bought property on the Morganza floodway could be the same people that lost theirs in 1927 and those losing their crops and maybe their property to creditors because of this could be their descendants.
If you don't have sympathy for them, you need to see a therapist.
If you don't have sympathy for them, you need to see a therapist.
Posted on 5/8/11 at 9:05 pm to Choirboy
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The article was written with a touch of smartassness IMO the whole deal was
Gee, Walley! You think so? I wonder why?
ETA: These are the same people who tried to evacuate the wrong town.
This post was edited on 5/8/11 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 5/8/11 at 9:12 pm to RhodeIslandRed
I was in the national guard. I can only imagine the the clusterfrick that these "highly trained guardsmen" created with these boats. 
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