[mlizzy]

This has not been in the news too much, but is happening tonight; a sad situation for the farmers ...

[driftdiver]

So the farmers are being sacrificed to save the town?

[Tex-Con-Man]

Government bureaucrats with explosives...what could possibly go wrong?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Is Louis Farrakhan aware of this?

[Spartan79]

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.

[Kakaze]

My wives family, maintaine 2, 100 plus year old working farms in Missouri............thank god they are not close to this area, there would be blood shed.

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.