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
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
