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Flooding - hmelton - 05-12-2011
How many members are threatened by the flooding on the Mississippi rivers and it's tributaries?
Our crop land was under for about a week and just yesterday we drove through receding water to start seeing how the land now lays.
We are in better shape than several of our neighbor farmers, we didn't have anything planted or even any ground broken so the washing won't be nearly as bad as it could have been.
Our home wasn't in any danger and all our neighbors were fairly safe, all the families around here moved out of the "Bottoms" back in the late 1930's and early 1940's following floods and all the small towns in the flood zones died out in that time period.
Given the way the New Madrid fault has created large ridges in my part of Arkansas there is usually high ground a few miles from the "bottoms" that never goes under and this made it very easy for the smaller poorer towns built in the flood plains to vanish as the people grew tired of the regular flooding of their home and moved to the ridges a few miles away.
For those of you who live down stream from Memphis in the flood zone, believe the reports about the crest for your area and start moving your property to higher ground the crest is coming and the core of engineers has already started purposely letting the smaller towns and communities flood to try and protect the bigger richer cities.
Howard Melton
God bless
- HoagieOfDoom - 05-12-2011
Not near the Mississippi at all, but the Lake Champlain area bordering New York and Vermont has been getting some ridiculous flooding. Several of my regular customers have had they're basements flood multiple times in the past three weeks and not a few homes are completely underwater near the lake edge.
Good luck to all you folks living near the Miss, and be safe.
- CattyNebulart - 05-12-2011
Thank god I live on a hill. Unfortunately most of my family does live under the sea level (netherlands).
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- robkelk - 05-12-2011
At least the people living beside the Mississipi don't have to worry about the government purposefully flooding their farms in order to avert the flooding of a city. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... itoba.html]Farmers in Manitoba aren't that lucky.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Dartz - 05-12-2011
http://www.evamade.net/e1...m_viewtopic.php?167083.0
There's some good pictures in this thread. Snowfairy lives just across the Mississippi from Memphis, in Kansas.
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- Bob Schroeck - 05-12-2011
Quote: At least the people living beside the Mississipi don't have to worry about the government purposefully flooding their farms in order to avert the flooding of a city. Farmers in Manitoba aren't that lucky.http://www.americanrivers.org/newsroom/ ... lains.html]I'm afraid you're wrong.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Duane Peters - 05-12-2011
Dartz Wrote:http://www.evamade.net/e1...m_viewtopic.php?167083.0Um, point of order: "Across the Missisippi from Memphis" would be Missouri, not Kansas.
There's some good pictures in this thread. Snowfairy lives just across the Mississippi from Memphis, in Kansas.
- Dartz - 05-12-2011
Duane Peters Wrote:Dartz Wrote:http://www.evamade.net/e1...m_viewtopic.php?167083.0Um, point of order: "Across the Missisippi from Memphis" would be Missouri, not Kansas.
There's some good pictures in this thread. Snowfairy lives just across the Mississippi from Memphis, in Kansas.
US Geography not my thing.
I'm certain she said she lived in Arkansas... Let me look that up. (And I got Arkansas mixed up with Dorothy Kansas too). Marion, County Crittenden, Arkansas.
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- Black Aeronaut - 05-13-2011
Might have an affect on helping my family move from Baltimore to Texas. Depends on how badly the highways are affected.
Links to roads closed in Arkansas - hmelton - 05-13-2011
Thanks for the various links
I live about 70 miles west of Memphis.
Black Aeronaut here is a link to all closed highways in Arkansas.
http://www.arkansashighwa.../web-road%20closings.htm
It might help you plan what roads to take on your trip to Texas.
Looks like I'm going off line almost as quick as I got on, there is another large storm moving across the northern part of the state now.
howard melton
God bless
- Black Aeronaut - 05-13-2011
thanks, HM! This website will be very useful. And good luck to you - hope you don't get slammed hard by this storm system.
a couple of links - hmelton - 05-16-2011
These two links caught my attention.
http://www.foxnews.com/us...ts-parts-louisiana-told/
http://www.foxnews.com/us...t-home-hold-floodwaters/
howard melton