So as not to minimize the sympathy we all have for Joplin, MO, and many other communities ravaged by spring tornadoes, I have started another thread. For those in SD, NE, IA, MO, KS...and all those south of St. Louis. This water will eventually make its way to your neighborhood. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html https://picasaweb.google.com/104592...verFloodOf2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLaoO7rm_qp1AE# BTW, I encourage site moderators/admins to move my previous posts on the subject to this thread.
that is a mess i know people are hurting and i hate to see people lose there homes and there family items that can not be replaced, all anyone can do at this time is pray they will be able to get back on there feet and everyone involed is safe.
Just an update. Water is starting to recede. The smell is awful. Everything North of the Tarkio river still has standing water. South of the Tarkio, they are irrigating. Interesting contrast.
More folks should read the article you posted. The government and the media have done a great job of ignoring this and making the public think it's just a natural event. Far from it. This really should be in Wacky World.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_c8fdb4d3-55d6-53c9-865d-9a954b1b7a6b.html Of course, no mention of the cause of the flooding.
US 136 runs through my home town of Rock Port, MO. There are several places between Rock Port and Brownville, NE, that are completely washed away, as is most of Highway 2 between Shenandoah, Iowa and Nebraska City, NE, just 25 miles North. I-29 at various places, including where the Nishnabotna flows under it, has been severly damaged, and may not reopen until a year from now. There are many people displaced, as they use to live on one side, and commute to the other. Their commute now involves driving south to St. Joseph, or north to Omaha, to get to a route that can get them to their jobs. I think the most interesting fact about the history of this flood, is that the corps were warned about record snowmelt in February, and to be "making room" in the reservoirs, but chose to do nothing about it until May.
Thinking Please, Please, Please, I encourage all here to check out American Thinker. http://www.americanthinker.com/ This site is all about what America used to be about.
Update on Missouri Flood: 2011 Gauge at Brownville, NE is still at 1.8 feet above flood. River is mostly within the main channel between the federal levees where levees are undamaged. Water is evaporating slowly on the back side of the levees, which turned into shallow lakes when river stopped pouring over the tops of the levees. As noted before, it will be a long time before I-29 re-opens. Overpass at Highway 2 from Shan to Neb City has been severely undermined. They arrested some numbnuts for blowing through all the stoplights in Shan on US-59 at 73MPH. His excuse was that US-59 was now an "Interstate" and the speed limit was 70MPH and the lights didn't count. I fear many casualties as the harvest season approaches and these "Interstate" travelers run into slow-moving farm equipment. How would you like to meet a combine with a 20-foot corn head at 70MPH?
The equipment is dear, that is for sure, but the current situation has made culling the herd expensive.
I'm not so much worried about "equipment" as to the lives lost when one of these comes through your windshield. The farmer should be paid out of the estate of the deceased. By the way, US-59 is only about 20 feet wide.
I-29 is now open, but not at full capacity. There are temporary drive-arounds, (whistle tubes and gravel), for the damaged overpasses. These are shared by North and South-bound travelers, and depending on time-of-day, one can expect up to 15 minute delay. Still beats rural two-lane and the occasional combine, or tractor pulling a gravity wagon.
Driving home Friday, on I-29, couldn't help but note the similarity to the dust bowls of the 1930's. I could hardly see Corning, MO, due to the wind-blown clouds of silt from the flood.
Steerhead, you hail from Rock Port eh? My Mom grew up there, went to HS etc. I've spent quite a bit of time down there visiting my grandparents and the occasional run down from Omaha to get fireworks! Do you remember by chance, before the interstate was opened, an elephant carved into the side of a small bluff right outside of town? I used to love looking at that thing whenever we would visit the grandparents. FYI, my Mom's maiden name was "Kirk" and she had several brothers and sisters. I'm amazed at how Rock Port has grown/changed over the years from the sleepy little town I remember with a few stores, the Atchison County bank, a bowling alley and the little drive-in/burger joint into a place with and actual interstate exit. Enough of my trip down memory lane...
