Posted on 06/19/2008 8:31:51 AM PDT by cardinal4
WINFIELD, Mo. -- Floodwaters punched a 150-foot hole in a Winfield levee last night, and firefighters spent hours in the dark going door-to-door to warn residents in one subdivision that water was coming faster than expected.
Bill Byram, assistant chief and fire marshal of the Winfield-Foley Fire Protection District, said the levee just east of Winfield along Pillsbury Road broke about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. Water was quickly flowing toward a second levee, and the National Guard was fortifying that with sandbags.
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“When the Levee breaks, Mama you got to move....”
Is Bush blowing them up with explosives?
Dangit, I thought I was the only one who thought that when I read the title, then I felt guilty for singing a song about something so serious.
Thanks, I don’t feel like a loser now. I might be a big legged woman that ain’t got no soul, but not a loser!
I believe a million pounds of thermite was secretly placed on the levees.
“When the Levee Breaks” was the only appropriate song I could think of. Im not making light of this-Portage de Sioux is 5 miles as the crow flies from here. And it is completely underwater..
No screams for FEMA here..
Just in the sections where there are Black folks.
I spoke too soon-our company, in conjunction with the city, who runs the airport, is allowing FEMA to stage in the old parking lot behind our building. They started arriving tonight in 18 wheelers. They are setting up some kind of command post, there too..
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