Sucks to be those farmers.
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/30/2839226_explosives-are-moved-closer-to.html?storylink=omni_popular
QuoteExplosives are moved closer to Missouri levee
The Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. | The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started moving barges with explosives closer to a southeast Missouri levee Saturday in case engineers decide to blow a hole through the levee to try to prevent flooding in Cairo, Ill.
Meanwhile, a federal appeals court cleared the way for the explosives to blast a 2-mile-wide hole in the Birds Point levee downstream on the Mississippi River from Cairo, which was ordered evacuated Saturday because of worrisome changes in the soil behind the city's flood wall. Engineers think the intentional breach would reduce pressure on Cairo's flood wall, but they were still weighing their options Saturday.
Missouri has tried to block the plan because it could flood about 130,000 acres of farmland, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Saturday not to overturn a judge's decision that allowed the corps to proceed.
Gov. Jay Nixon said he ordered about 100 members of the Missouri National Guard to the area to join more than 600 troops already there. The troops have helped evacuate about 230 residents, and 800 others are being urged to leave.
The corps is monitoring the rise of the Ohio River in Cairo, just north of where the Ohio flows into the Mississippi. Spokesman Jim Pogue said the agency's decision would be based on how high the river is expected to get, new rain that could fall and water backing up in reservoirs upstream.
The river is expected to crest in Cairo at 60.5 feet — a foot above its record high — by Tuesday and stay there through at least Wednesday.
The flood wall protects Cairo's 2,800 residents up to 64 feet, but it is feared that water pressure could compromise the wall and earthen levees.
Oh, and apparently their flood insurance won't cover this since it's a man made disaster. The judge's name in the case is Limbaugh and I wonder if he's related to Rush Limbaugh as it's the same town as Rush is from.
Feds aren't gonna reimburse them?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 01, 2011, 05:36:37 AM
Feds aren't gonna reimburse them?
Don't know. Coster doesn't think so. All I know is what he said on the news the other day.
Surely the government has to pay the farmers back? Super bad form if not.
See what happens when you drop Don't Ask Don't Tell?
I'm pretty sure they'll be reimbursed. Missouri is a swing state, after all.
God damn, you guys have no idea how much rain we've gotten over the past week. The Mississippi is already more flooded than it was in 1927, and most of the tributaries are also at historic flood stages. Also, I'm pretty fucking tired of my yard having a foot of water in it every other day. <_<
Quote from: Fireblade on May 01, 2011, 09:37:31 PM
I'm pretty sure they'll be reimbursed. Missouri is a swing state, after all.
God damn, you guys have no idea how much rain we've gotten over the past week. The Mississippi is already more flooded than it was in 1927, and most of the tributaries are also at historic flood stages. Also, I'm pretty fucking tired of my yard having a foot of water in it every other day. <_<
Move to Utah!
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Quote from: Slargos on May 01, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Well the area is populated by decendents of Scandies so what do you expect?
Quote from: Slargos on May 01, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Pretty much every river here is dammed and producing hydroelectric power already. :P
Quote from: katmai on May 01, 2011, 09:45:18 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 01, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Well the area is populated by decendents of Scandies so what do you expect?
QuotePretty much every river here is dammed and producing hydroelectric power already.
This. :hmm:
Quote from: Fireblade on May 01, 2011, 09:37:31 PM
I'm pretty sure they'll be reimbursed. Missouri is a swing state, after all.
God damn, you guys have no idea how much rain we've gotten over the past week. The Mississippi is already more flooded than it was in 1927, and most of the tributaries are also at historic flood stages. Also, I'm pretty fucking tired of my yard having a foot of water in it every other day. <_<
16 damn inches and counting.
Quote from: katmai on May 01, 2011, 09:45:18 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 01, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Well the area is populated by decendents of Scandies so what do you expect?
Arkansans are Scandies? :hmm:
Guess my true birth name is: Gunnar Rambo
Quote from: Fireblade on May 01, 2011, 10:22:18 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 01, 2011, 09:45:18 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 01, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?
Well the area is populated by decendents of Scandies so what do you expect?
Arkansans are Scandies? :hmm:
Guess my true birth name is: Gunnar Rambo
No I was just trolling Slargy.
Though the Upper Midwest where the rivers originate is a haven of Scandies. :P
Can they even dam the Mississippi in that area?
Quote from: Razgovory on May 01, 2011, 10:55:51 PM
Can they even dam the Mississippi in that area?
:lol:
No I don't think so.
The Missouri river is up here, but not too bad. We've manage to avoid a great deal of the rain and storms. My uncle in St. Louis was at church when those tornadoes hit St. Louis. They hid in the church basement, but the church was undamaged. The non-Catholic church next door had it's steeple come down. :pope:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 01, 2011, 02:22:09 AM
Sucks
Enough with these obscene engineering threads, timmy. I'm not interested in what the Corps of Engineers is blowing.
All those perverted Japanese cartoons must be rubbing off on you.
I'm more surprised that Syt hasn't posted an "Army Corpse of Engineers" book cover yet.