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Originally Posted by MullersLaneFarm
I haven't read any of the replies, but heard from a lady in OK that told me that the Corps of Engineers blew up some dams in southern IL to flood the plains. Didn't make the news last week because of Osama.
Is this true?
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It made the news, if you looked for it.
The New Madrid deal, just do a news serach on it. They set it up in 1927, a low levee that would protect 133,000 acres of rich farm land, but would be blown away if both the Missisippi & Ohio rivers ever _both_ got real high. This was the year, so 100 farm homes and that many farm acres are flooded to save a town that is in great decline since 1927. But perhaps there are other areas that were also saved.
Canada is facing the same issues right now as well, about to blow out a small area of a levee and flooding out 150 farm homes, to potentially save 850 homes - possibly.
"Manitoba will punch a hole in a dike along the south side of the Assiniboine River east of Portage la Prairie and risk flooding 150 homes rather than take the chance that an uncontrolled flood will swamp many more.
That was the grim choice flood officials were left with on Monday as they faced an unprecedented tide of water from western Manitoba."
Read more:
http://www.leaderpost.com/Assiniboin...#ixzz1LwH44Py0
When there is too much water, there is no place to park it. When there is not enough water, there is no place to find it. Our simple ideas don't fit the many layers of nature and how one little thing affects another.
Farm tile helps prevent flooding some years, like this year, the tile ran all year long even tho we had a cold winter, temps below zero, the water was runningin Dec, Jan, Feb - or the spring flood s would have been _much_ worse up here as the snow melt would have not been spread out, but all at once, and it would be piling up even worse downstream....
Concrete & pavement & roofs really speed up water flow, but not every parking lot is a bad thing either - it's mnatural to want to point fingers and blame someone, but - naw, that's not right. It's not always the other person's fault.
It just is - too much water in too short a time.
--->Paul
