Posted on 05/14/2011 9:32:31 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. – Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's populated Cajun country.
About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in harm's way when the Morganza spillway is unlocked for the first time in 38 years. Sheriffs and National Guardsmen were warning people in a door-to-door sweep through the area, and shelters were ready to accept up to 4,800 evacuees, Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Some people living in the threatened stretch of countryside — an area known for small farms, fish camps and a drawling French dialect — have already started fleeing for higher ground.
In Krotz Springs, La., one of the towns in the Atchafalaya River basin bracing for floodwaters, Monita Reed, 56, recalled the last time the Morganza was opened in 1973.
"We could sit in our yard and hear the water," she said as workers constructed a makeshift levee of sandbags and soil-filled mesh boxes in hopes of protecting the 240 homes in her subdivision.
Elsewhere, workers were trying to shore up other levees, and engineers were tediously inspecting other floodwalls to make sure they would hold.
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Why does Barack Obama hate Cajuns?
Map of the area to be flooded:
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/05/prepare_to_open_morganza_flood.html
Pretty easy to recognize folks that “ain’t from around there”!
“LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. – Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s populated Cajun country”
As a high-ranking official in the Nixon administration once said about the Jews:
“F*** ‘em, they don’t vote for us anyway”…..
(I believe that quote came to light during the Watergate investigation and I also believe that whoever said it made an accurate, if crude, observation)
Brazil politics suck, but its food paradise. Try one of the Brazillian restaurants, like Fogo da Chau.
First pronunciation. No one I’ve ever heard here uses the second.
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