Army Corps of Engineers to Blow Missouri Levee

[jimmy olsen]

Sucks to be those farmers.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/30/2839226_explosives-are-moved-closer-to.html?storylink=omni_popular

Explosives 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.

[Razgovory]

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.

[jimmy olsen]

Feds aren't gonna reimburse them?

[Razgovory]

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.

[Josquius]

Surely the government has to pay the farmers back? Super bad form if not.

[CountDeMoney]

See what happens when you drop Don't Ask Don't Tell?

[Fireblade]

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.

[katmai]

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!

[Slargos]

Invest in hydroelectric power. You slack-jawed yokels are just going to let all that juice go to waste?

[katmai]

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?

[Fireblade]

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.

[Slargos]

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?

Pretty much every river here is dammed and producing hydroelectric power already.

This. 

[Ed Anger]

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.

[Fireblade]

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?

Guess my true birth name is: Gunnar Rambo

[katmai]

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?

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.