Workers conduct operations near holes that have been drilled the Bird's Point levee in northern Mississippi County, Mo., Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
Posted on 04/29/2011 6:36:17 AM PDT by TSgt
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge is giving the go-ahead to the Army Corps of Engineers' plan to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee in southeastern Missouri.
The break could happen as early as this weekend to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver.
Friday's ruling in Cape Girardeau turns back Missouri's bid to block the corps from blasting a hole in the Birds Point levee in Mississippi County, just south of Cairo, Ill.
Missouri argued the floodwaters would ruin farmland and damage about 100 homes.
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Those damm levees and the C of E is responsible for all kinds of death and destruction. Leave the damm river alone.
If they actually wanted to.
Tough choices but weigh them:
“Missouri argued the floodwaters would ruin farmland and damage about 100 homes” vs. ruining an entire city.
Men believe they can control the Mississippi.
The river quietly laughs.
The Corps has had it in for levees ever since Katrina.
It’s their turn to get even.
The Old Man is laughing his ass off at the puny Corpse of Engineers.
Kansas Joe McCoy
Visit Cairo, Illinois sometime (population 2831) and then get back to me. 2831 people, possibly 800 to 1000 homes worth less than the 100 homes and productive farm land proposed to be ruined.
100 tax paying households as opposed to 2831 tax takers.
Cairo is in Illinois, let them blast their own levees anywhere they please and leave Missouri farmers alone.
Point taken.
I didn’t consider that it’s 2800 votes for democrats vs. 100+ votes for republicans.
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tyrin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, “Little fat man isn’t it a shame what the river has
done
To this poor crackers land.”
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tyrin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
Randy Newman
The Army Corps of Engineers rape of this country has been going on for a very long time.
Our entire approach to flood control in this country is wrong.
It would be better to leave the river alone, and build the houses on landfills above the flood level.
Levees destroy the land (no soil replacement), cause periodic flooding when they fail, and damage the Gulf (because the soil that would have been deposited on the farms winds up in the Gulf, instead).
Don’t forget the bonus of destroying productive food producing farmland. The great Obama Dictatorship cannot happen unless we have food shortages.
I would not be surprised if someone takes matters into their own hands.
Around here you can’t so much as move a rock in a brook or even replace a culvert without getting algore’s permission and yet the Army Corps of Engineers has been playing God with, I believe, disastrous consequences for hundreds of years out west. Left to its own devices, I’m told the Mississippi River would not even flow through New Orleans any more but would divert to the west somewhere around Baton Rouge and go more due south rather than southeast. I say “LET IT!”
At some point, a certain percentage of the population will just say, F the government.
Not me - I am just making an observation. Ignore that cabin I built in the woods. And no, I am not a mathematician from Michigan. With a basement.
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