Massive Floods Extend Across Midwest, South
May 4th, 2011Via: CNN:
An engorged Mississippi River spilled out onto huge swaths of farmland in the South and Midwest on Wednesday, prompting massive flooding from Minnesota to Louisiana.
Heavy rains spawned flooding that meteorologists say is not expected to fully relent until early June. Areas along the Ohio River Basin also experienced heavy flooding, forcing residents to evacuate low-lying areas across the region.
Earlier, the intentional breach of a levee on the Mississippi helped to ease unprecedented flood pressure on other areas, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Ohio level had dropped about 1.7 feet at Cairo, Illinois, since Monday afternoon, before the blast, but that is expected to level off later on Wednesday.
The breach, created when engineers detonated explosives late Monday night at Birds Point, Missouri, is sending 396,000 cubic feet of water per second onto 200 square miles of fertile Missouri farmland.
The water is coursing across a floodway that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon described as “literally the most productive part of our continent.”
Farmer Bryan Feezor said the sight makes you “sick to your stomach” as he surveyed his submerged fields.
“Farming is all I ever have done … and it’s underwater,” he told CNN St. Louis affiliate KPLR. “I really don’t know (what I’m going to do).”
A second levee blast was conducted Tuesday afternoon at New Madrid, Missouri, and a third is planned Wednesday near Hickman, Kentucky. The second and third blasts, downstream of Birds Point, will allow floodwater to return to the Mississippi River.
While the plan appeared to be working — the level of the Ohio River fell where it joins the Mississippi — record crests and relentless water pressure still threatened communities throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.
I am still trying to comprehend so many issues on what this blast of the levee by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) means. I don’t even know what cabinet agency of the US govmint USACE falls under. It’s bizarre. To me, flooding these lands like this should have been approved by the Congress because it is, in effect a MASSIVE taking of PRIVATE land. Oh and this is really smart. When the food situation around the world is so on the edge of collapse?
Who is the USACE? Who is their “boss?” Who is in charge here and accountable for this heretofore unprecented “TAKING” of private land by flooding?
If it were my land being flooded I wouldn’t be so kind to be filing a lawsuit. I’d be after someone’s private parts with a knife. But that’s just me.
Neptune is moving out of my sign and I’m just getting out from under a LONG FOG of the brain matter here.
Who is the USACE? Why is AOK to let the levees fail in New Orleans during Katrina, or as some have it, intentionally blow them up so that the French Quarter would be saved? Hmm?
We are all children playing in our milleau happily, until some MORONS who claim to have the rights to destroy our lives shows up. I for one will be asking some questions. To me, it is with VERY DUBIOUS AUTHORITY that these SCOWM invaded the midwest with floodwaters. IT STINKS!!!!!
Very strange indeed. I wonder if the USACE reports to the DHS in somewhy?
I used to go to a university in southern Illinois. Most of the geology around the area had been defined and created by the 1811 quake. We explored caves, cliffs and rock structures created by the quake. Quakes so strong the tremors rang church bells on the east coast of the US.
The 150-mile (240 km) long fault system, which extends into five states, stretches southward from Cairo, Illinois; through Hayti, Caruthersville and New Madrid in Missouri; through Blytheville into Marked Tree in Arkansas. It also covers a part of West Tennessee, near Reelfoot Lake, extending southeast into Dyersburg.
This flood is going to release trillions of gallons of water onto the area And further help to liquefy the ground in this area.
Sinkholes forming in the New Madrid Fault Zone water liquefaction taking place and now flooding
Google news out of Cairo, Illinois. Sink holes right downtown.
Several coincidences appear to be converging:
The strange bird and fish die off during New Years week this year. The birds are said to have had their insides turned to mush .. while in flight?
DHS/FEMA is to have NLE 2011 in May
NLE 2011 will simulate the catastrophic nature of a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). NLE 2011 activities will take place at command posts, emergency operation centers and other locations to include federal facilities in the Washington D.C. area and federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector facilities in the eight member states of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC). The eight member states of CUSEC encompass four different FEMA regions: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee (FEMA Region IV); Illinois and Indiana (FEMA Region V); Arkansas (FEMA Region VI); and Missouri (FEMA Region VII).
http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/nle2011_fs.shtm
Updated April 21, 2011 – The HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) website has been down for weeks.
HAARP’s magnetometer can be used to predict as well as give evidence of a HAARP created earthquake. A magnetometer measures disturbances in the magnetic field in Earth’s upper atmosphere. HAARP was broadcasting a 2.5 Hz frequency (the signature frequency of an earthquake) from just before midnight on March 8, 2011 and continued to broadcast the frequency for the entire days of March 9, 2011 and March 10, 2011. The 2.5 Hz frequency continued to be broadcasted and recorded by the magnetometer for another 10 hours the day of the Japan 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
BIRDS GUTS LIQUIFIED? Was it a test run to get the target coordinates correct?
The ‘authorities’ always tell us what they are planning prior to an event? Some kind of creepy code of behaviour. ‘Create a crisis’ to cover up all the bizzare economic issues, dollar collapse, Japan, doctored birth certificates, totally fabricated death of the 10 year legendary arch enemy of the US?
Seems to me the ‘Fuse’ is set … they just need ‘ignition’ from HAARP?
FEMA NLE right on schedule to ‘save’ us.
At the same time – that private property was created by the installation of the levees in the first place. Rivers and wetlands rarely can be claimed as private. Rivers naturally tend to use the whole floodplain, and they learned from the Army Corps previous mistakes, particularly near New Orleans, that marshlands need continual sediment input from the river or they will erode and become open water, and levees reduce the capacity of the river and cause flooding during rain. In a few locations, floods can produce a bumper crop after the land dries out, but in other cases it will remove the soil. Mark Twain had really good description of how the path of the river changed a lot http://www.mtwain.com/Life_On_The_Mississippi/index.html
I grew up in a grain farming community and am still plugged in through friends and family. For the past several weeks I have been asking people if they have planted ANY corn yet. No one that I have talked to has planted a single field yet.
Too wet by a mile. What’s more, no one says that they know ANYONE who has planted any corn yet.
NO CORN. I’m sure some is in the ground somewhere, but I wonder how much?
USACE is a unit of the U.S. Army. It falls into the same structure as other Army division units. It just has a different operating mandate during its peacetime service activities. Using military units outside of combat to perform civil engineering projects goes back to the Roman Empire. The Legions were constantly kept busy building roads, etc. It kept them out of trouble and helped keep them from becoming seditious. In recent years, some of the professional engineers in the Corps have begun advocating for returning rivers to a more natural state. They feel that bottling the rivers up between dykes and floodwalls only causes inevitable floods to be much more destructive. There is some truth to this. I think the destruction of the levees is actually an offshoot of this thinking. The farmland that is underwater today will be naturally fertilized for tomorrow. This sucks for the farmers there today, of course, but if they can hold out their soil will be enriched and they will need less chemical fertilizers.
Concerning “NLE 2011 will simulate the catastrophic nature of a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).”
This is an exercise for how to achieve continuity of government (COG) – not how to help people in the event of a disaster.
Thanks
a) to Kevin for not deleting my comment because I was advocating violence;
b.) Lonewolf, I’m waiting for tie;
c.) tito – I hear in Maine small farmers start their corn inside – treat it like a seedling. But I guess when you are a large field farmer this would be impractical;
d.) jburke6000- thanks for the authority;
e.) MBerger47 – THE WEIGHT OF THE WATER will cause an earthquake methinks. And these suckers are waiting to capitalize on the destruction.
f)quintanus – I love Mark Twain.
I meant to say, Quintanus – for the sh*t to hit the fan.
@Eileen
I must have missed the one where you advocated violence.
@kevin
I laughed because you had a knife picture on the Amazon sidebar when I expected stern words from you instead.
Advocating violence is my bad.
I about died when I had to kill a chicken because it needed to be put out of its dead dance.
I just vent here and get carried away with myself. Sorry. I thought I was over saying things that are not comments you want here.
Mom never washed my mouth out with soap but that liquid Dr. Bronner’s spearmint is some powerful stuff.
I’ll try to put the bottle beside my computer the next time I get really mad about something.