River rising

Looks like all our snow melt has reached your neck of the woods..

Got a email saying reserve area is reaching flood stage. It doesn't looking they'll need to open it but I'd love to get on some crawfish

FYI they get that letter every year since they are in a spillway.

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This means yet another of my regular spring spots will be ruined

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after the last time the Morganza spillway was opened they now feel confident about everything involved and will be more likely to do it in the future.

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Now that they repaired all the areas around the gates that nearly scoured under the pilings and wrecked the whole structure, I hope they feel a little better.

This year is a totally different year than 2011. That year we were in a historic drought, and all of the models they had predicting the coverage of the water within the spillway ended up being wrong. With this year being as wet as it has been, it would be a totally different dispersion of water with the gates open.

As of now it is not expected to be opened. We expect the river to rise another 4 feet and crest sometime at the end of the month. However if the mid west get significant rainfall over the next couple weeks this could change.

The snow in the north east has little affect on the Mississippi.

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Red is high too

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My ol man said the Red was suppose to jump 3 1/2 feet this week.

Thanks.

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where is that?

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Here