Posted on 05/12/2011 9:10:33 AM PDT by Kartographer
The Mississippi River has topped a levee north of Lake Providence in extreme northeast Louisiana, flooding croplands as an effort by farmers to shore up the 100-year-old structure was thwarted by the rising river.
About 12,000 acres behind the 18-mile-long levee, mostly planted in corn and soybeans, were flooding Thursday morning though no homes appeared to be in danger in the thinly populated area.
Maintenance on the levee was abandoned years ago after another, higher levee was built farther back off the river.
(Excerpt) Read more at wwl.com ...
5 points for “excellent use of a quotation in a post.” You advance to the next round.
I just called a friend in Little Rock and she said that there’s a million acres under water.
The political thugs from LA and Chicago go to prep school in Joisey.
Forgot about Joisey, now we’re #3.
>>Convicted Monroe City Council members Red Stevens and Arthur Gilmore can remain in office until their sentencing in federal court in August.<<
This is the winner! You know the sentence is going to be real cruel, don’t you. Hell is the judge related to both these guys?
“Louisiana 1927”
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 Evangeline
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 Mississippi River has the fourth largest drainage basin or "catchment" in the world. The basin covers more than 1,245,000 sq mi (3,220,000 km2), including all or parts of 31 states and two Canadian provinces. The drainage basin empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The total catchment of the Mississippi River covers nearly 40% of the landmass of the continental United States.
3 percent of the state
That’s alright. Americans have lots of money and they like to eat imported food from the third world countries. Just think how many jobs this will create, rebuilding all those roads, schools and houses. Nobody will say Zero didn’t know how to lower the unemployment rate when times were tough.
3% of the most productive part of the state.
When that headline hit yesterday morning (quoting the Monroe city attorney, I got busy and wrote in my blog:
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/law-says-stevens-gilmore-shall-be-suspended/
Law Says Stevens, Gilmore SHALL be Suspended
By Walter Abbott
Louisiana state law says that the felony conviction last night of City of Monroe Councilmen Robert “Red” Stevens (District Four) and Arthur Gilmore, Jr. (District Three) shall cause them to be automatically suspended from public office without compensation.
LA RS 42:1411. Public officer; ground for removal; suspension; definitions
By yesterday afternoon, the city attorney reversed herself and admitted they had to go.
Yep. Coupled with high transportation costs, this could get interesting very quickly.
3% of the state, more like 10-15% of the productive part. It will hurt.
Good move. If we ever meet, dinner and drinks are on me.
You’re probably right, could even be low numbers.
Why, thank you.;o)
Amazing, I never thought of that, thanks for posting.
I figured it must be a levee breech somewhere, and I saw that mentioned in news articles, but with no real specifics. It wasn't until I saw today's ( Sunday's ) MODIS AQUA image of the lower Mississippi that I was able to locate it:
See it? Lake Providence is the brown "pond" at center bottom. ( This is my hand processed version of the "raw" image. )
Compare and contrast the much ballyhooed Bonnet Carre and Morganza spillway openings:
Well, you can see the efflux of the Bonnet Carre spillway, but the is nothing in the Morganza floodway after two days! After all, they only opened a couple of gates. I suppose there is water pooled by the spillway, but the "pond" you see in the circle is largely on the riverside, where it's supposed to flow through the spillway when it's opened. My thought: The Morganza opening was "pro forma". Evidently the breech of the abandoned thousand year old ;-) levee south of Greenville was much more efficacious.
The secretary will ignore all of my pronouncements, should you choose to accept them.
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