re: Mississippi River Flooding - Links & Pictures in 1st Post

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Raggie Poo - Help me out.

Will property just over the Port Allen levees be okay?

Or is it going to be flushed away?

Opening the spillway and Morganza will help BR, but Natchez and others are still SOL.

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Just over the river side or on the town side?

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River side would probably fall into the category of "not good."

I'm talking about property between LA 1 and Jefferson Avenue and property between Jefferson Avenue and the levee.

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I would think the levees today are completely different from 1927. We really do not know what to expect all the COE has to go is scientific theory. I have the believe they have a very good idea of what is going to happen, but then again if they are wrong or if something happens they are not taking into consideration, then well. Overall I have to trust the COE. Good luck guys.

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Yeah we do have to trust them, what other option is there? There was a link posted a thousand pages back with an interview of the author of Rising Tide. It kind of worries me, but I'm still not sure if I fully understand how it compares 1927 levees with 2011 levees. If the current day levees were built tighter than the few they had in '27 then it would take less volume (and time) to reach a certain hieght today than it did in '27.

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John Barry (JB): Well, there was a flood in 1850 and, to give you a sense of comparison, a levee a
few miles upriver from New Orleans was 1.8 feet high. By 1922, the same levee, to hold a lesser
flood, had to be 20 feet high. In Morganza, Louisiana, there was a levee that held the flood of 1850
seven-and-half feet high. In 1922, again, a lesser flood, the same levee had to be 38 feet high. And
the same increase in the levee heights was true up and down the river. Obviously, if a river can't
spread out, it's going to rise up. That's exactly what it did and that, of course, completely
contradicted the levees-only theory in policy, but the Corps of Engineers was not listening.

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It may not be relevant since we can at least compare river stages from '73 to today.

Uh oh.....

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just the maps i am looking at from the 1927 flood tell me this is going to be devastating for a lot of people ..

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My grandparents were married and lived in the village of Raccouri, La. which was just north of Morganza at the time near where the lower control structure is now. The town was wiped out and never rebuilt. Simmsport, Morganza and Melville were also flooded
My grandma used to tell me stories that they loaded the whole town on a train and brought them all to Baton Rouge.

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It wil extend past Saline and Catahoula to the bluff at HWY 115

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Yea I told someone that who honestly asked me if Natchez was going to flood? Told him that Alexandria will get water from the MS before Natchez does.

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This is what I ment. Natchez is safe, but it's easier for most people to locate on a map then Vidalia(have some pretty hot chicks there).

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TRUTH. On many a bustling Saturday night on Main street in Natchez, you will meet fine young ladies from Louisiana as far as Jonesville and Sicily Island.