Dams

Are the dams still holding the water back from going South ?

I sure hope so

From an article posted on May 7, 2011

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Communities living along the Mississippi River are bracing for the worst flooding in nearly a century, as waters continue to rise along the swollen waterway, breaking high watermark records last set before the Great Depression.

Evacuations have already begun along the Mississippi Delta; 17 casinos in the river’s namesake state will be closed by next week, and hundreds of residents in and around Memphis, Tenn., have been asked by officials to leave their homes and seek higher ground.

“This is historic,” Col. Jeffrey R. Eckstein of the Vicksburg District of the Army Corps of Engineers told the New York Times. “Things that have never happened, people here have never seen before, we are going to see.”

Heavy rains, some from the violent storms that battered Southern states and killed several hundred in recent weeks, have local officials worried about flooding along the river’s thousands of tributaries.

The last great flood of the region in 1927 flooded 27,000 square miles and killed hundreds. Though the crest has yet to go beat 1927’s highest numbers, many expect that in the next few weeks the river will rise several feet above them. In Memphis, the current crest level is the second highest of the city’s history, just shy of the 48.7-foot number reached in 1937.

Infrastructure to protect from flooding in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi is already being tested, and though levees have been built up in anticipation, many are worried the region will be underprepared for the sheer volume of water being brought through communities along feeder waterways. A major concern is the Yazoo River, which meets the Mississippi River above Vicksburg, Miss. A census analysis by the Associated Press estimates some 4 million people live in the area that might be affected by flooding.

“We can’t do nothing about what Mother Nature kicks at us,” fleeing Memphis resident Henry Allen told the Associated Press. “This is history making right here.”

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C’mon Jesse, we’re worried about casinos there??? My land on pool 10 I still can’t step foot on.Let alone fish from. just saying And if you live close to the Great Miss. better get used to it.

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C’mon Jesse, we’re worried about casinos there???

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Seriously ????

Did you even read the entire article I quoted ? Here’s a quote from the above article

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A census analysis by the Associated Press estimates some 4 million people live in the area that might be affected by flooding.

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I really seriously don’t care about any casino’s I hope they get destroyed, all of them. IT’S THE 4 MILLION PEOPLE THAT I AM PRAYING FOR. C’mon

I’m not sure if you have ever been through a disaster i.e. a fire or a flood but it is devastating, I once lost everything and I mean everything to a house fire, not a fun life experience. I truly feel for these people. Sorry to hear you can’t fish from your land but my heart truly goes out to those who’s lives are about to be changed forever due to a flood. Check the news and the papers those people are about to lose their homes not a fishing hole.

All I’m saying Jesse is its been a tough go at it ,up and down the river this spring, and being a steward of a little stretch,for over 40 yrs. You don’t mess with the big Muddy.
Grant it we can’t help what the corps. of enigrears do. Just a fishin hole??? Get real