Posted on 05/02/2011 4:47:42 PM PDT by RummyChick
What an eerie reality ... brrrr.
Leni
Yes, it is derelict and run down but also very historic.I hate too see either the town or the farmlands get flooded. One point though, it has been so wet the farmers have not been able to get crops in the ground yet this spring, that farmland at the moment isn’t producing anything.
Missouri is furious-— the water could flood many acres of high value farmland in that state & they aren’t able to get any traction to stop this.
Cairo has been totally evacuated. There is no one there left to die ion the floods.
But- the black mayor of Cairo is telling the media that what’s the value of ‘farmland’ compared to loss of lives???
Since the town of Cairo is totally evacuated—that is a specious statement, IMO.
That ‘farmland” that he is willing to sacrafice will be inundated with toxins-—sewage—gasoline from leaking tanks—propane tanks floating—cows drowned— that can render it useless for a large number of years. I seriously doubt that there is ANY insurance a farmer can hold that covers a deliberate blowing of a levee.
Another blow t6o the American farmer in the middle of the area that grows soybeans to replace meat & corn to burn as Ethanol.
A tragedy no matter who is telling the story.
They are doing this in the middle of the night.
I hope it doesn’t effect the new madrid fault line.
They are going to flood hundreds and hundreds of acres of rich farmland and ruin homes to save a derelict town because of RACE.
If this town is so important..why hasn’t it been saved and renewed before.
Btw, Dick Durbin and Obama visited Cairo several years ago.
Lots of old towns full of history, old buildings and a life from long ago have faded away.If the levee was to breach on the Il. side, the town would be totaly destroyed, gone forever. I guess it is just the nostalgia in me, the old woodwork,old doors and glass panes that type of thing.I grew up in the illinois river bottoms not far from there.A really old settlement and frontier trading post.
Residents of Cairo are Obama’s and Holder’s kind of people. Southeast Missouri farmers, not so much.
And if you ever come to visit historic Cairo, be sure to drive well under the speed limit—traffic fines arema major part of the town’s revenue. And you probably want to be out of town well before it gets dark.
Half a century ago Cairo was a prosperous.little town. Then racial divisions tore the town apart. It is not, as some here claim, an all Black town. There are plenty of wealthy white people—nearly all of them very old living in beautiful mansions that their heirs will be lucky to get $20,000 for. One lady I was talking to was offered $12,000 for the “architectural features” of her relative’s thee-story home in Cairo.
The Corps has announced they will begin blowing up the levee between 9 and midnight tonight. No matter what happens to the Missouri farmland tonight, Cairo is also doomed—and has been for the last 30 years. It looks just like what you see at the beginning of this thread.
How much you want to bet those builds have been condemned as uninhabitable?
White farmers who had a good levee versus Eric Holder’s people who had a worthless levee but lived in the most corrupt state in the union, after New York and California.
How do they justify saying - well, we're going to save THESE peoples homes by destroying YOURS?
they have NO RIGHT?
Thos farmers should all get together and ride thier tractors right up to that levee and refuse to move. Take their 'deer' rifles with 'em and the press.
Are you serious! It's already destroyed. If anyone cared about it's precious historical heritage - it sure aint' in evidence.
So you're okay with destroying other peoples farms, farmlands and livelihoods = all of whom are NOT in danger - it's okay to deliberately sacrifice them?
America has indeed lost it's sense of right and wrong.
I dont really understand why they are doing this at night..unless it is to keep the visuals from the media.
Here is the facebook page for this floodway
Looks like more explosions may happen:
http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2011/05/corps_of_engineers_decides_to.html
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway near Morgan City, La., and the Bonnet Carre Spillway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre, which was christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
Has anyone checked the voter registrations? I’ve become jaded enough to think that politics will influence the decision.
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