4/25/2011 Missouri Flood warnings (Joplin, Cape Girardeau, Cairo: deed, compensation, live in)

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Remind me again why they saved Cairo?
seMissourian.com: Local News: Professor: impact on soil depends on several factors (05/03/11)

Because the farmland isn't a registered voter. Traditionally human life and property is given the priority. Too bad they don't see the farmland as being more productive than the sink hole that is the part of Cairo's flood plain.

Looks like it may have been a jewel 70 years ago or more but its decay has passed the point of salvage.

aerial video @ link

Youtube : Aerial view of flooding from explosive breach of Birds Point levee

[Missouri Geographer]

The levee breach is expected to provide a general decrease in river levels at all gauges between Cairo and Caruthersville. As you move downriver, the decrease will become less discernible until south of Caruthersville it will almost be unnoticeable. The decrease will likely be temporary as tremendous amounts of water are/will be released from Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley - so don't panic if you see gauges going up slightly again.

What is amazing is that even WITH the use of the Birds Point Levee Project, the Mississippi remains above record levels and will for some time. The weather pattern may get active again starting around the 10th, lets hope we can evacuate a large portion of this water before more precipitation falls!

[MoNative34]

And its only early May....

[kentuckydad95]

Just curious as to how opinions would be if Cario was a thriving, mainly white town.

According to one report, either on WPSD or KFVS, the farmers WILL receive their crop insurance. Of course farming in a FLOODWAY, they knew the risks going in. Their land deeds even have it stipulated that way. There are risk/rewards to everything. Maybe if we stopped using valuable land to make ethanol, this wouldn't be as large a problem.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by kentuckydad95

Just curious as to how opinions would be if Cario was a thriving, mainly white town.

According to one report, either on WPSD or KFVS, the farmers WILL receive their crop insurance. Of course farming in a FLOODWAY, they knew the risks going in. Their land deeds even have it stipulated that way. There are risk/rewards to everything. Maybe if we stopped using valuable land to make ethanol, this wouldn't be as large a problem.

Mostly cotton and soybeans grown in that particular place.

[kentuckydad95]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Mostly cotton and soybeans grown in that particular place.

Will this cause a bean and cotton shortage?

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by kentuckydad95

Will this cause a bean and cotton shortage?

Slow night on the interwebz?

[kentuckydad95]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Slow night on the interwebz?

Deflecting?

These farmers KNEW the risks. The rolled the dice and won for years. Now it's snake-eyes. BTW, the Ohio River dropped some since the levee explosion. IT IS helping people. There are more people involved in this than Cairo.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by kentuckydad95

Deflecting?

These farmers KNEW the risks. The rolled the dice and won for years. Now it's snake-eyes. BTW, the Ohio River dropped some since the levee explosion. IT IS helping people. There are more people involved in this than Cairo.

Why in the world would I be deflecting anything?
Let me remind you that you are not in the p&oc forum right now.
Do I look like a speculator in commodities?
Why dont you do something useful, like sandbag, instead of attempting to stir up trouble?
I'm flying home in a couple of days to help, what are you doing to make a difference in the afflicted communities?

[kentuckydad95]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Why in the world would I be deflecting anything?
Let me remind you that you are not in the p&oc forum right now.
Do I look like a speculator in commodities?
Why dont you do something useful, like sandbag, instead of attempting to stir up trouble?
I'm flying home in a couple of days to help, what are you doing to make a difference in the afflicted communities?

That's what I thought.

Anyway, the Army Corps of Engineers didn't just blow the levee for the fun of it. They are a group of people that are far more trained and knowledgeable than any of us. If they say it will make a difference, IT WILL make a difference. IT IS currently making a difference. Like I said, this is beyond Cairo. This has to do with ten's of thousand's of people that like along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. I know the media has spun this into a "Cairo only" story, but it's not. Human life and their property is more important then the 130K acres of mainly open farm land. You know it and I know it. And there won't be any shortage (crisis) of cotton, beans or whatever from it.