Blasting the levees

[the_donger]

I think I just heard/felt the second levee blast a few seconds ago. Talk about a deal with the devil, flood out some people to save others. Glad that decision was not on my plate.

[stratosjoe]

where and when were levy's blasted???

[PRO V LE]

where and when were levy's blasted???

Cairo IL. where the Ohio meets the Miss. 250TONS of explosives. 130,000 acres flooded to save a crime/drug infested little town.

[kygorski]

200 faen familys who probably will be well reimbursed by uncle sugar, against 2800 poor people.Those farms were om a flood plain long before the levees were built, Those farmers probably have been subsidized for years already.I'll always take 2800 over 200.Corn and cotton are cash crops that in some cases we pay for.Of course we all know that blacvk folks are all drug addicts, and unemployed, so its no big loss right?

[PRO V LE]

I DID NOT bring up the race thing and it has nothing to do with my post. This is the last I will respond to this thread.

[the_donger]

I did a mapquest search on "Birds Point, MO" and the only thing close was in Charleston, MO. I would give you a link but mapquest does not let you so you have to search it yourself. It is down the Mississippi from Cairo, Il and up the MIss. from Wickliffe, KY. The first blast was last night, 5/2/2011. The second blast was supposed to be between 1 nd 4 am this morning, 5/3/2011, but there was a delay for unannounced reasons. I am not sure what I heard/felt was the next blast but I really do not doubt that that is what it was.

[the_donger]

Here is a good site to see the results of the blasted levee.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-to-save-town-

[Tim_T]

Cairo IL. where the Ohio meets the Miss. 250TONS of explosives. 130,000 acres flooded to save a crime/drug infested little town.

Guess it is okay as long as it is someone else's town huh?

The levee's were built for this very reason, so it kinda makes sense to me that they would actually use them for this purpose. Of course what do I know, I live in a town that has a lot of meth manufacturing and prescription pain pill abusers. Maybe they should blow the dam at Taylorsville and flood my town off the map. I am sure the world would be a better place.

[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.