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To: EternalVigilance

Unexcusable they didn’t have the gates open long before in anticipation of the melting snows and spring rains. Even with the excess rains, it shouldn’t have been this bad if they’d managed it better months ago.


2 posted on 06/26/2011 8:58:01 AM PDT by bgill
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>>>Even with the excess rains, it shouldn’t have been this bad if they’d managed it better months ago.

But they had to maintain a water level to protect a fish population... on that would not have been there in the first place were it not for the damn dams... Corps of Engineers is gonna have a lot of ‘splainin to do when it’s all said and done and they look back with their 20-20 hindsight...


4 posted on 06/26/2011 9:08:07 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: bgill
Unexcusable they didn’t have the gates open long before in anticipation of the melting snows and spring rains.

Everyone thinks humanity can outguess and control mother nature. In doing so we take comfort in assigning blame because it lets us think we have ultimate control.

22 posted on 06/26/2011 11:12:59 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: bgill
Unexcusable they didn’t have the gates open long before in anticipation of the melting snows and spring rains.

Everyone thinks humanity can outguess and control mother nature. In doing so we take comfort in assigning blame because it lets us think we have ultimate control.

23 posted on 06/26/2011 11:12:59 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: bgill
Unexcusable they didn’t have the gates open long before in anticipation of the melting snows and spring rains.

Everyone thinks humanity can outguess and control mother nature. In doing so we take comfort in assigning blame because it lets us think we have ultimate control.

24 posted on 06/26/2011 11:12:59 AM PDT by Sawdring
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Unexcusable they didn’t have the gates open long before in anticipation of the melting snows and spring rains.

Everyone thinks humanity can outguess and control mother nature. In doing so we take comfort in assigning blame because it lets us think we have ultimate control.

25 posted on 06/26/2011 11:12:59 AM PDT by Sawdring
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This interview explains how we got to where we are ragards to the Missouri River Valley flooding and also illustrates how the flooding will last through August.

May rains were ‘real kicker' in big water year

34 posted on 06/26/2011 12:00:03 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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