Morganza spillway opened

[30ashopper]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-14/mississippi-river-floodgate-to-open-today-inundating-louisiana-cajun-area.html?cmpid=sfchttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...nundating-louisiana-cajun-area.html?cmpid=sfchttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...nundating-louisiana-cajun-area.html?cmpid=sfc

flood map:
http://images.bimedia.net/images/51311-floodmap.jpg

Hope everybody in LA is on high ground!

 

[Rita]

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Wow! This is such a bad situation no matter what is done.

From those maps, there's a lot of areas that can flood.


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[DD]

Hope my beloved Krotch Springs survives.

 

[Rita]

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DD - It looks like Krotz Springs is in the 5 -10ft estimated flood depth:
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http://media.nola.com/weather_impact/photo/inundation-mapjpg-01c65f9fb98dc2ef.jpg


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[Minnie]

It has been bad for so many up and down the river. Snakes, river rats and huge roaches are all over the city due to flood waters. Here are some amazing photos of the flood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...html#s278076&title=Mississippi_River_Flooding

 

[bluecat]

Seems we can't get over one disaster until there' another one. Hope no lives are lost from this .

 

[scooterbug44]

It has been bad for so many up and down the river. Snakes, river rats and huge roaches are all over the city due to flood waters. Here are some amazing photos of the flood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...html#s278076&title=Mississippi_River_Flooding

Are you guys going to be okay with the flooding?

The rats are nasty. When Papa Scooterbug was in high school in Iowa, they took all the boys out of school and put them to work sandbagging w/ the prisoners. That lasted until one guy got bit by one of the rats and his mother pitched a fit. Since he had just invented "rat baseball" everyone else thought he deserved it.