The Corps of Engineers will need national guards troops armed and ready to fire back if they go ahead with this. There has been gunfire in the past during Mississippi flooding as both sides tried to breach levies on the other side to protect their homes and farmland, and if I were a Misssouri farmer looking at some fellows planting charges on a levy on my side of the river to flood my land I’d drop them in a second. And no Missouri jury would convict me.
The Missouri National Guard is closing off all roads leading into into the area that will be flooded if/when the Corps decides to blow the levees. So a Missouri jury might well convict someone of shooting a Missouri guardsman.
Cairo is being evacuated right now. Everyone is to be out of town by midnight. The problem now is “sand boils” . This water that is being forced by pressure under the levees to “dry” side. Apparently there are several very large ones boiling up in several places and they can’t be controlled.
And we are getting more rain...up to 4 more inches in Cape Girardeau over the next couple of days.