Blasting the levees

[kygorski]

There is another town suffering from high water, metropolis Illinois, I have a friend who retired to that area to hunt and fish,its not only the missippi river, its the ohio also at flood stage that will come down because of the blasts on the levees.That action will also ease the high water here in ky to some extent.

[GeoFisher]

Some of these levees were designed to be DESTROYED in a catastrophic flood event.

This Qualifies..........

Later,

Geo

[PRO V LE]

This is from LC.com my point was that the town can be brought back in a few months, 130,000plus acres will take 15-20 years.
I've been watching this story for the last couple of days and I must say I really feel for everyone involved. I see that they just broke the levee and in doing so have changed the lives of many for years. I farm 2500 acres, much of it on the White River, and I know what a food can do to us here. Breaking that levee has destroyed the livelihood of many farmers and will leave 130,000 acres of farmland buried under a layer of sand and silt that will take years to fix. I hope it was the right desicion and I hope the people of Cairo appreciate what's been done for them.


I used to drive a truck for a living and often delivered in Cairo, IL. My first trip to Cairo I got stopped at a KY DOT scalehouse on US 60 between Paducah and Cairo. DOT cop told me WHATEVER I did, not to spend the night in Cairo, and let me double back to Paducah to a decent truckstop, even though my logbook could ill afford it. Over the years of going thru that tiny little town, I can honestly say that the worst neighborhoods in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland GOT NOTHING on Cairo, IL. If I was a flooded out MO farmer, I'd never forgive the Corps of Engineers.

[TimE]

This is from LC.com my point was that the town can be brought back in a few months, 130,000plus acres will take 15-20 years.
I've been watching this story for the last couple of days and I must say I really feel for everyone involved. I see that they just broke the levee and in doing so have changed the lives of many for years. I farm 2500 acres, much of it on the White River, and I know what a food can do to us here. Breaking that levee has destroyed the livelihood of many farmers and will leave 130,000 acres of farmland buried under a layer of sand and silt that will take years to fix. I hope it was the right desicion and I hope the people of Cairo appreciate what's been done for them.


I used to drive a truck for a living and often delivered in Cairo, IL. My first trip to Cairo I got stopped at a KY DOT scalehouse on US 60 between Paducah and Cairo. DOT cop told me WHATEVER I did, not to spend the night in Cairo, and let me double back to Paducah to a decent truckstop, even though my logbook could ill afford it. Over the years of going thru that tiny little town, I can honestly say that the worst neighborhoods in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland GOT NOTHING on Cairo, IL. If I was a flooded out MO farmer, I'd never forgive the Corps of Engineers.

I'm betting every single one of those 131,000 acres is sucking tit off the gov. I'm starting to hate farmers more than welfare leeches, they are blood sucking ticks. I encourage everyone to search for who's getting subsidies in your area, you might be suprised how much they receive.

[kygorski]

Hey I feel sorry for the poor small farmers amywhere. BUT the big ones and the conglomerates are living off of us.I have in laws who lease out their land for cotton farming. They dont do the work, they dont hire the illegals to gin it, but every year they get a check from the govermnent. This has been family property for over 100 years. The originals worked their a--es off and made a living, but then came government programs to aide farmers, and there is never any talk about cutting it, except for tobbacco. Years ago when the other countrys started dumping steel on our markets, who opposed sanctions? rural america, it would hurt our exports of commodities, so how come so much of our food nis now imported??They always find something to cry about.