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Louisiana Is About To Be Flooded With A Wall Of Water Nearly As Big As Connecticut
Business Insider ^
| 05/14/2011
| Gregory White
Posted on 05/14/2011 1:01:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
mother nature strikes again.
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posted on
05/14/2011 1:29:39 PM PDT
by
RC one
(DO NOT RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT!)
To: mlizzy
“...Im watching it live...”
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You got a linky dink?
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posted on
05/14/2011 1:44:50 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Proud to be a (small) monthly donor.)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
05/14/2011 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
meatloaf
To: trumandogz
He’s the Messiah, isn’t he, at least compared to Bush, who is responsible for all the ills of the world?
So he should have raised his limp-wristed little girlie hand and made the rains stop.
To: SeekAndFind
Why are people allowed to build homes and farm in a natural floodplain? If they do it should be entirely at their own risk. This same area flooded in 1927 when the (known) high water mark was set. Big floods happen on a regular basis but people have short memories.
To: HiTech RedNeck
It will take someone smarter than me pull it off.
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:04:20 PM PDT
by
Clump
(the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:05:04 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: trumandogz
To be honest, I can't offer a solution to the problem
which would satisfy everyone. There is no way to stop the floods as it stands today. The only thing to do IMHO is to pick certain areas as permanent flood basins and prohibit
populating those areas. This would require Obama strength
overuse of eminent domain and would bring a hue and cry
from affected states. Maybe lease it out for farming.
My original observation was fairly tongue in cheek. The
cries of O not responding to Tx. wildfires and Al.storm
damage and last years refusal to even acknowledge the flood devastation in mid. Tn. all seem to point to it.Sorry if you took me too seriously. My friends have learned not to.lol Patrick Durham
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:05:39 PM PDT
by
WePledge
(Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
To: meatloaf
Just read where the crest does not reach Vicksburg until Thursday.
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:06:23 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Proud to be a (small) monthly donor.)
To: smokingfrog; mlizzy
Do you think they’re is watching it “live live”; or “video live”?
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:11:03 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
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To: Repeal The 17th
Officials opened the Morganza spillway around 3 p.m., letting 10,000 cubic feet of water per second pour through one of the structure's 125 bays.
Water from the first 24-hours of flooding because of the opening is not expected to reach any permanently inhabited communities, according to Col. Ed Fleming, commander of the New Orleans District of the Corps
Fleming said the spillway will operate at only about 25 percent of it's capacity to release 600,000 cubic feet of water per second, but only one bay -- which releases 10,000 cubic feet of water per second -- will be opened today.
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:15:19 PM PDT
by
deport
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:16:19 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Proud to be a (small) monthly donor.)
To: SeekAndFind
Okay can someone brief me on this....I know that there’s more than enough rainfall fairly recently but I’m still not understanding why the Mississippi is acting out like this. I mean it’s not even hurricane season yet!
To: deport
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:18:33 PM PDT
by
deport
To: ClearCase_guy
Additionally, the concept of a Wall as big as Connecticut has me scratching my head
I don't know why that was so funny, but I swear to you, dry humor has wet ramifications (like the drink that just ran down my shirt.)
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:19:28 PM PDT
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
To: SeekAndFind
Scuba Dave action figure ...
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:31:20 PM PDT
by
Flavius
(What hopes for victory, Gaius Crastinus? What grounds for encouragement ?)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Why doesnt Obammie the Commie do something to prevent this and save Louisiana?Because he gets his beef form overseas? Or maybe because he is a uncompassionate progressive. Or maybe because mostly "white folk" will be affected. Or maybe because he's still on his victory lap. Or maybe because he's courting the hispanics, and the Mississippi will become his moat after he hands over the Western US to Mexico. He's a busy man-child...
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:31:30 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
The reason Louisiana exists is to absorb Mississippi floods.
The land has been misappropriated for other uses so the concept of saving is not really valid.
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:35:34 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
In his nomination victory speech, he said his presidency would be remembered as the time when the waters (oceans) began to recede.
What, Bambi, all outta miracles already?
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:35:50 PM PDT
by
Zman
(Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
To: SeekAndFind
Is that Obama?
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posted on
05/14/2011 2:36:33 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
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