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These photos depict flooding in the White River basin in southern Monroe County, Arkansas. Much of the land south of Holly Grove and Highway 86 has been flooded by a combination of backwater of the White River and heavy rainfall. Thousands of acres of wheat and corn were lost to the floodwaters and planting is being delayed for cotton and soybeans. Although the flood waters are now receding, wet soils may prevent cotton from being planted for the remainder of the year. Having an adequate supply of soybean seed is now in question.
The water came up suddenly and with little warning. Due to the rapid and record rise of the Mississippi River, the White River actually flowed backwards for several days. One of the pictures shows a house surrounded by an 8- to 10-foot high levee. The owner was safe from the flood, but one night during severe thunderstorms, over 5 inches of rain fell, which, combined with the wind-driven waves, collapsed the levee and flooded the house.
A crop insurance agent demanded to see a wheat field that had been reported as flooded. So, the farmer loaded the agent in a boat and floated over the wheat field.
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Thanx for everyones kind thoughts and prayers. I can safely say the “Red Stick” has dodged a bullet. Some weren’t as lucky.
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Hundreds of people living along Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River heeded mandatory evacuation orders when the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza floodway north of Baton Rouge for the first time since 1973. The corps had warned residents of Butte LaRose that diverting the Mississippi River’s flood waters into the Atchafalaya basin could inundate the town.
Several weeks later, that dire forecast hasn’t come close to fruition. The slowly rising water has damaged a few homes in Butte LaRose but spared the vast majority. The mandatory evacuation order has been lifted.
Thousands of acres of crops, timber and catfish farms are still flooded, mostly by tributaries that backed up because the Mississippi River was so high. Hundreds of people are still displaced from flooded homes. Some people had nothing to go home to.
Eventually, the river water will enter the Gulf of Mexico, raising fears the fragile oyster beds, hit hard by last year’s BP oil spill, could suffer again.
Meanwhile, early estimates indicate flooding swamped 450,000 acres of cropland and caused more than $250 million in damages to agriculture in Mississippi alone, said Laura Hipp, a spokeswoman for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. However, an exact measure of the damage is not yet available because thousands of acres are still flooded.
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The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 are among the largest and most damaging along the flood-prone U. S. river in the past century. Comparisons are being drawn with the major Mississippi River floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems tracked through much of the vast Mississippi River watershed, dumping record rainfall over large areas. Already rising from springtime snowmelt, the river, and many of its tributaries, began to swell to record levels by the beginning of May. Areas along the Mississippi itself experiencing flooding include Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. U. S. President Barack Obama declared the western counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi federal disaster areas. Fourteen people have been killed in Arkansas, with 340 killed across seven states in the preceding storms. Thousands of homes have been ordered evacuated, including over 1,300 in Memphis, Tennessee, and more than 2,000 in the state of Mississippi. About 13% of U. S. petroleum refinery output is expected to be disrupted by flood levels exceeding historical records in several locations, with gasoline futures up 9. 2%. The flood is expected to crest in Memphis by May 10 and in southern Louisiana by May 23. The Army Corps of Engineers has stated that, even if spillways are opened, an area in Louisiana between Simmesport and Baton Rouge may be inundated with 20–30 feet (6. 1–9. 1 m) of water. The Old River Control Structure in northern Louisiana may be threatened by the rising waters, and opening of the Morganza Spillway nearby is being considered to lower the river level and flow in this area and downriver. Failure of either of these structures might allow the Mississippi to divert its main channel to the Atchafalaya Basin and the Atchafalaya River, developing a new delta south of Morgan City in southern Louisiana, and greatly reducing water flow to its present channel through Baton Rouge and New Orleans to its current delta in southeastern Louisiana. Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground noted that failure of the Old River Control Structure ‘would be a serious blow to the U. S. economy, and the great Mississippi flood of 2011 will give its most severe test ever.’ Some geologists also observe that it doesn’t require failure of the dam and spillway facilities for the lower Mississippi to chart a new course to the sea because the whole area north of the facilities is suspect. Corps geologist Fred Smith was once quoted saying ‘The Mississippi wants to go west. Nineteen-seventy-three was a forty-year flood. The big one lies out there somewhere—when the structures can’t release all the floodwaters and the levee is going to have to give way. That is when the river’s going to jump its banks and try to break through. “From April 14–16, the storm system responsible for one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U. S. history also produced large amounts of rainfall across the southern and midwestern United States. Two weeks later, from April 25–28, a second, even more extensive and deadly storm system passed through the Mississippi Valley dumping more rainfall resulting in deadly flash floods. This latter storm produced over 250 tornadoes, killing at least 340 people in the deadliest tornado outbreak since 1925. Combined, the storms killed at least 383 people and caused an estimated $5 billion dollars in damage. The unprecedented extensive rainfall from these two storms, combined with springtime snow melt from the Upper Midwest, created the perfect situation for a 500-year flood along the Mississippi. On May 3, the Army Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile hole in the levee protecting the Bird’s Point-New Madrid floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, from record-breaking flood waters. The breach displaced around 200 residents of Missouri’s Mississippi and New Ma
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There Is No Excuse To Endangering Life and Property With River Flood Conditions We Have Hurricane Katrina as a Reminder with the 9th ward
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(Vidalia, La.) – Protecting people’s lives is what this flood
fight is all about. Without the Mississippi River and Tributaries
system, more lives and property would be at risk. Corps personnel from
the Vidalia, La. area office are continually monitoring the levees.
(Video by Brooks Hubbard, USACE)
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As flooding continues along the Mississippi River, happy outcomes are hard to come by. There is one neighborhood in the South Vicksburg area of Mississippi, though, where five small businesses have joined forces and devised a plan to build their own levee. With a little ingenuity and determined spirit, they are fortifying an old raised railroad track along the river, hoping to keep the water out of their property and hundreds of homes in the surrounding area.
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This is a continuation of the MIssissippi River flood currently taking place. As more and more people have become aware of the danger’s that are looming for the state of Louisiana they are also becoming aware of choices that have been made in this dilemma.
One major decision that has come up in our current situation was to blow some levees, which they did in the first week of May, 2011. Upon doing this they saved some small town and redirected the flow of the water from the Mississippi.
Now there is a threat of Baton Rouge, La and New Orleans, La being flooded out by the swollen Mississippi River. As a result, another decision regarding levees had to be made and that was to open the Morganza spillways with the objective of again, redirecting the flow of the flooding Mississippi. They wish to sacrifice thousands of acres of farm land in and flood it all out, in order to save these two majorly populated cities – Material objects have been traded for food.
With an ever growing threat of food shortage our country can’t take a drop in food production, on top of rising prices for gas and food. This could very well begin a string of famine that could cause a lot of losses of life over the coming year.
Finally, one can’t help but wonder, with all the predictions over the past few thousands of years, modern sciences predictions of this area flooding, is it all true? Can all of these predictions actually be coming true? Will Louisiana and parts of Texas permanently be flooded? With the BP Oil spill and it’s effects on the area, the land in southern New Orleans won’t be able to handle the weight of flood levels of water. It will quite literally weaken the land and cause an even bigger problem…
This video outlines all of these points in great detail! The west coast of the United States is going to flood too. For with all these predictions, there has always been a second part to it – and that is the flooding of the west coast as well. There are talks of beginning drilling in Alaska. Another oil disaster, mixed with the active earthquakes in the region, may be all they need to create the same stages of devastation on the west coast as well. After this happens, America will be permanently devastated and unrecognizable!
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The Mississippi River is rising fast, and now preparations to prevent a flood here are moving just as quickly. May 13, 2011
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -http://www.wafb.com/story/14641245/morganza-spillway-could-open-sat-or-sun
Gov. Bobby Jindal said it is extremely likely the Morganza Spillway will be opened by Saturday night or Sunday at the latest. He said that timeline could change slightly, but probably only by hours.
Jindal added there still has been no definitive decision from the US Army Corps of Engineers, but from everything he’s hearing, the decision will probably happen this weekend. Jindal said the water flow at the Red River Landing was last reported at 1.423 million cubic feet per second. The threshold for opening the Morganza Spillway is 1.5 million cubic feet per second.
Jindal stressed he expects there will be little time between notification and the actual opening of spillway, so people need to begin putting their plans into action. The Bonnet Carre Spillway will be at full capacity by the end of Friday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg2mpCmv7U8
“Now’s the time to evacuate activation plan,” Jindal said. “Now is the time to take action. Don’t delay. This is going to be marathon not a sprint.”
“When the spillway is opened, it will not be fully opened all at once. The spillway has a capacity of 600,000 cubic feet per second and the Corps expects to operate it at half of its full capacity, slowly opening a few gates at a time,” Jindal explained.
The areas in the northern part of the spillway will see the effects first and the lower areas will have a couple of extra days before the water reaches them. The levees will be completed in Morgan City on Saturday and Amelia on Sunday.
Jindal said he has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to provide prediction maps that show people how much water is expected to move into the areas where the floodwaters will go.
He said people in many low-lying areas expected to be affected by the opening of the spillway have already started evacuating and taking actions to protect themselves and their property.
The sheriff’s offices and Louisiana National Guard are going door-to-door to notify folks that the spillway may be opening Saturday night or Sunday morning. Jindal said assets will be put in place at the spillway Saturday morning and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will be prepared to close roads.
Many areas continue to fortify the levees with sandbags, hesco baskets and recycle asphalt. Jindal said engineers don’t expect main line breaches or overtopping of the levees along the Mississippi or Atchafalaya rivers.
The American Red Cross has more than 60,000 spaces available at 22 identified shelters to house residents who need shelter.
Jindal said federal assistance has also been requested for mosquito control, which is expected to be a problem with water lingering in many areas.
Wednesday afternoon Governor Bobby Jindal activated the Louisiana National Guard to help keep the state above water. 150,000 Guardsmen will move equipment, sand bags and inspect levees constantly until the waters recede.
“This is going to be a marathon,” says Governor Jindal. “We’re not talking about just a couple of days of around the clock levee inspections.”
Jindal also sent a letter to Washington D.C., requesting more troops from the Federal Government.
In East Baton Rouge Parish, the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security unveiled their latest weapon. And we’ve seen it before. The same boom used in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill is being moved inland to battle back this latest crisis.
The Mississippi River is forecast to crest on May 23rd at over 47 feet. That’s higher than some levees in the Parish. The boom will top any levee lower than 50 feet in the Parish adding critical inches that are the last line of defense.
Bryan Harman with East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Public Works says “if it begins to over top that flow will begin to cut into the levee and it could ultimately lead to a failure… We could go from a little minor situation to a catastrophic situation quickly.”
That catastrophic situation is a levee breach. “Once it breeches, there’s no way to stop it,” says Harman.
EBR Mayor-President ‘Kip” Holden says he has signed a State of Emergency Declaration for the Parish. He will make it official Thursday. Holden says only time will tell how much damage is done.
“We just have to hope and pray that there’s no breach in the levee because if that occurs then we are looking at a disaster in Baton Rouge.”
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When The Levee Breaks: Flood 2011 “It’s Getting Real, High” Mississippi River Baton Rouge
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