Posted on 04/30/2011 6:06:50 PM PDT by Graybeard58
My bad, Little River Control Structures. Should read Old River Control Structures.
When I was a kid, I swam in one of the floodways, it was also named “Wahite”, about half way between Morehouse and Gray Ridge.
Little River runs through Morehouse, where I was born and raised. Normally a small stream, it’s now out of its banks and Morehouse is being evacuated.
As I noted earlier, I’ve never seen Morehouse flooded before and I’m 65 years old. The river has been out of its banks before but usually it just puts standing water in the far west end of town. Now all sections of town are flooded.
I was in East Prairie, MO. just last week and Cairo, Il which is located a few miles upriver from East Prairie. I have an uncle who lives in East Praire and works at the grain elevators in Cairo. Cairo was once a beautiful river town ; lots of river barge commerce. The managing editor of a local news paper told me the small farmers are gone. East Prairie and Cairo are rotting down to older retired farmers and the rest is young unemployed. Lots of dope and crack houses in both cities. I mean, it’s like stepping into a nightmare. I have been going there to visit relatives since the 50s and have personally seen the decline. The local advise from law enforcement (friends of my relatives)is NOT to travel on the roads near Cairo after dark. Seems crackheads head for the freeway after dark and cruse for fun and game. I actually time my trips to pass Cairo during the day.
I was in East Prairie, MO. just last week and Cairo, Il which is located a few miles upriver from East Prairie. I have an uncle who lives in East Praire and works at the grain elevators in Cairo. Cairo was once a beautiful river town ; lots of river barge commerce. The managing editor of a local news paper told me the small farmers are gone. East Prairie and Cairo are rotting down to older retired farmers and the rest is young unemployed. Lots of dope and crack houses in both cities. I mean, it’s like stepping into a nightmare. I have been going there to visit relatives since the 50s and have personally seen the decline. The local advise from law enforcement (friends of my relatives)is NOT to travel on the roads near Cairo after dark. Seems crackheads head for the freeway after dark and cruse for fun and game. I actually time my trips to pass Cairo during the day.
So, no one in FEMA thought of this BEFORE it started raining?
My feeling is that this plan is based on ossified doctrine.
I’ve been to Cairo IL. Let it flood. The only thing better would be if we could flood East St. Louis, too.
I just looked at Cairo on google Earth.
I looks to be about the size of a typical neighborhood in my town here in MA.
Jeeez.............
Yes it was a very small town but had 1 or 2 blocks of impressive old abandoned buildings.
Small indeed and the second slumiest town in the state, East St. Louis, Illinois having beaten them out for the top honor and chock brim full of Obama voters.
What's a half million or so acres of prime Missouri farm land, compared to the glory of slumville, obamaville Cairo? After all, these are Holder's people we are talking about.
Small indeed and the second slumiest town in the state, East St. Louis, Illinois having beaten them out for the top honor and chock brim full of Obama voters.
What's a half million or so acres of prime Missouri farm land, compared to the glory of slumville, obamaville Cairo? After all, these are Holder's people we are talking about.
Blowing a hole in the levee. What could possibly go wrong?
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