TV warnings are just fine. The problem is that people are stupid. There's that old joke about God sending a boat and a helicopter to a guy who was clueless why he drowned.
A few years ago, I watched the sky, listened to the warnings, and watched the water level. When it was time, we got out. Others were clueless and to this day don't understand how I knew to get out. Idiots.
What’s really funny is that this guy is literally watching the water slowly inundate his house after swallowing three neighboring houses - and he’s waiting for someone to come give him a freebie before he’ll leave. How about he, you know, just leaves?
I once lived 100yards from the Mississippi levee and have seen that creek rise pretty good, once.
Heard an interesting factoid on the Weather Channel. The river was at 48 ft. above flood stage in Memphis. That means that every river or creek in the vicinity and hundreds of miles downstream that empties into the Mississippi in the next few days will be backed up to at least that elevation upstream.
Anyone who lives in a valley or holler or next to a bayou or creek should be able to check their elevation relative to the Mississippi.
If they open the Morganza spillway to flood the Atchafalaya Swamp, that whole basin to Morgan City and Houma will be flooded.
This is a big one. The Bonnet Carre Spillway just north of New Orleans has already been opened to divert the river into Lake Pontchartrain.
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