re: Morganza Spillway may or may not open for a 3rd time -- lack of clear info from ACoE

I hate to hear things like this. The flooding in 2016 opened my eyes to just how immensely just an inch or two of water can ruin lives and most around here got feet not inches. Ever since then whenever I hear of others going through what we went through around here I cringe.

If Baton Rouge was going to flood and I didn’t have time to get out the city me and my family going to the state capital and wait for helicopters to come get us off the top of the building.

True. It would take weeks to plug a break. They'd probably have to just sit it out and focus on rescue efforts until the river goes back down.

Killona crevasse was before the levee was backed with concrete I am assuming

If it blows, it’s gonna be bad...

That was mids 90s I think

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I just had a smoothie and it feels like I'm gonna shite myself

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I upvoted.

Don’t know about what would happen, but Mark Wahlberg would star in the movie.

If I remember correctly it wa the first to fail in 1927. Been a while since I read about it

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The White River

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White River Monster

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The White River monster is one of Arkansas’s premier mysteries. Since 1915, along the White River near Newport (Jackson County), the monster has appeared several times and has become a local legend.

Sightings of “Whitey” began in 1915 but were sporadic until 1937. On July 1 of that year, Bramlett Bateman, owner of a plantation near the river, saw the monster. He reported it as having gray skin and being “as wide as a car and three cars long.”

As news spread, construction of a huge rope net to capture the monster began. The monster had been seen in an eddy, so a diver was brought in to search for it. However, Whitey was not captured, and construction of the net stopped because of the lack of money and materials.

In 1971, the sightings began again when someone reported seeing a gray creature with a horn sticking out from its forehead. Other witnesses described it as having a spiny back twenty feet long. Later, a trail of three-toed, fourteen-inch prints was found in the White River area. Crushed vegetation and broken trees were evidence that something large had passed by, and it was assumed that the tracks were Whitey’s.

In 1973, the legislature signed into law a bill by state Senator Robert Harvey, creating the White River Monster Refuge along the White River. The area is located between “the southern point on the river known as Old Grand Glaize and a northern point on White River known as Rosie.” It is illegal to harm the monster inside the refuge.

While there have been no recent sightings, theories about Whitey abound. It is hypothesized to be anything from a huge fish to an elephant seal, though none of the theories fully explain Whitey.

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