Posted on 05/02/2011 6:37:27 PM PDT by mlizzy
(NaturalNews) In what is shaping up to be the worst flood situation in nearly a century, the swelling Mississippi and Ohio rivers have now breached their "flood stages" as persistent and torrential rains continue to pummel the Midwest states of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Many areas of these states have already been flooded, and many more are threatened by emerging sand boils and falling levees that have reached or exceeded capacity.
And unbeknownst to many Americans, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) recently filled 11,000 feet of pipe at the Birds Point levee near Cairo, Ill., with 265 tons of explosives, which it plans to detonate later this evening in an alleged attempt to divert flood waters from the blighted town into 130,000 acres of rural Missouri farmland located right over the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Recent severe weather events throughout the Southeast and Midwest have already ravaged many areas throughout this region, and more threats are on the way as severe storms continue to develop, particularly across areas near the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
This little-known fault actually has the "highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast," and its destruction zone is 20 times that of major West Coast fault lines due to its unique underlying geology -- so anything significant that disrupts this area could have devastating consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
So the farmers are being sacrificed to save the town?
No, people who aren’t Eric Holder’s people who fixed their levee are being sacrificed for people who are Eric Holder’s people who didn’t bother fixing their levee.
This is so bizarre and so WRONG. The town is a cesspool, and the livelihoods of industrious farmers and their homes are being sacrificed. How Hideous. I say let Cairo go down. Where are the interviews of the people being obliterated like this!!!!!
I’m certain those FLOOD PLAIN fields have never been flooded before/S
If they just keep delaying, the city will be irreparably damaged and the Karo folks can go live in st loui!
plenty of section 8 money for them there/S
Homes are being destroyed, and the sources of livelihood.
Yep.
A town of less than 3,000. And 60% black, 37% white. A town built on a slim finger of a delta on two rivers, the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers.
And not too far from New Marid.
Will the weight of all that water push that fault?
Do we know enough to know? I doubt it.
It is a big gamble.
You can’t have food shortages unless you dump tons of polluted water onto some of the most productive farmland in the world.
Yes, it looks that way. The author describes Cairo (which is the neighboring town to the farmland) as a blighted town whose population is less than 3,000, and he’s concerned that the destroyed levee will send a massive deluge of water right into the plains over the New Madrid fault area, which actually has the highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast. I’m from Illinois and had never heard of Cairo or their problems, until today. Lots of flooding!
Just like you can’t have food shortages if you let the farmers of the central valley of California have water to grow crops.
Government bureaucrats with explosives...what could possibly go wrong?LOL. Exactly!
Recall the “controlled burn” of vegetation near Sandia Lab years ago? Not so controlled....
And 265 tons of explosives is a lot of force...
Is Louis Farrakhan aware of this?
The town is a cesspool, and the livelihoods of industrious farmers and their homes are being sacrificed. How Hideous.Hideous indeed! I'm checking for tumbleweeds as well. Not a very thriving town:
The Corps of Engineers may be more worried about relieving flood pressure upstream from northern Louisiana. If this is truly a 100 or even 500-year flood, the Corp’s recurrent worst nightmare may be coming. Baton Rouge and New Orleans may be about to say bye-bye to the Mississippi River, which will someday inevitably burst through a system of levies and diversionary dams near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line and surge down the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico below Morgan City, Louisiana. In the process it will destroy Morgan City and a number of other towns, deprive the refineries in Baton Rouge and New Orleans of much of their crude, and likely wipe out I-10, forcing a lot of traffic into a 500-mile detour up I-55 to I-20. Folks, if this happens we are really truly screwed. Inundation of a 100,000 or so acres of Missouri farmland will seem small beer. We’ll look back fondly at $4 gas.
More about this: http://www.americaswetlandresources.com/background_facts/detailedstory/LouisianaRiverControl.html
The irony is they’ll probably lose Cairo anyway.
Yes, it’s all part of a pattern.
They have survived indians and the civil war, they would fight and I'd be heading from New Mexico to join.
I can't believe the locals have not lined the levees.
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