The river is at 61.11 feet, 11:30 am, 5/02/2011. The highest ever was in 1937 at 59.50. Flood stage is 40 feet. The top protection of levee is 64 feet. There's no word yet when the Corp of Engineers will blow the levee. It takes 20 hours to fill pipes with the explosives, and they started yesterday. So it may be soon the Corp of Engineers blows a two mile wide hole and floods 130,000 acres of rich fertile farmland. As my cousin said we may raise catfish this year instead of soybeans. :)
Email today to older son:
Aren't you glad we own a farm in the spillway. You want me to fly you to Memphis and you rent a car to go to farm and make a documentary. The news has been overshadowed by tornadoes in AR and AL as well as Bin Laden. The flood, however, is beyond the great floods of 1927 and 1937.
It's a great documentary for you as it's been kind of a civil war between MO, IL, TN, KY. Also you've got the farmers vs the blacks in Cairo, land vs people. The small farmer is getting scarce anyway, and now the flood. People are worried about the faultline and if it'll trigger an earthquake. The MO appeal to stop the blowing of the levee at Cairo went all the way to the Supreme Court. However, the Royal Wedding, tornadoes, and Bin Ladin dominate the airwaves. Already yesterday's news about the levee is old news. It changes hourly. We're waiting to be flooded.
On May 2, 2011, at 12:45 PM, David wrote:
Wow, so it's already 2 feet above the record?
On May 2, 2011, at 12:43 PM, R wrote:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pah&gage=ciri2&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=
Email today to older son:
Aren't you glad we own a farm in the spillway. You want me to fly you to Memphis and you rent a car to go to farm and make a documentary. The news has been overshadowed by tornadoes in AR and AL as well as Bin Laden. The flood, however, is beyond the great floods of 1927 and 1937.
It's a great documentary for you as it's been kind of a civil war between MO, IL, TN, KY. Also you've got the farmers vs the blacks in Cairo, land vs people. The small farmer is getting scarce anyway, and now the flood. People are worried about the faultline and if it'll trigger an earthquake. The MO appeal to stop the blowing of the levee at Cairo went all the way to the Supreme Court. However, the Royal Wedding, tornadoes, and Bin Ladin dominate the airwaves. Already yesterday's news about the levee is old news. It changes hourly. We're waiting to be flooded.
On May 2, 2011, at 12:45 PM, David wrote:
Wow, so it's already 2 feet above the record?
On May 2, 2011, at 12:43 PM, R wrote:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pah&gage=ciri2&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=
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