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- Dec 7, 2002
I ray that you guys make it out safe and sound... looks like it is only going to get worse.
ya know whats really sad?? if this happened to some half assed country in the middle of nowhere OUR gov would be sending $$$$ an all sorts of help!! Keep your heads up guys.
Very true Dan, sad but true!
I think most people had plenty of notice to move their valuables. Older folks or people with no place to move stuff might be a different story.
I recently read where FEMA is going after individuals for money that FEMA overpaid them after Katrina. But nothing about the questionable use of millions given to public agencies and spent on non Katrina related items.
We give billions to places like Haiti and never ask the govt how they distributed it, but our govt agents constantly screw up and then go after individuals for pennies while they gave millions to other govts/agencies without caring about whether they deserved it or not.
i've kind of given up on feeling sorry for people that live in a flood plain when they get flooded. especially if they rebuild in the same spot after one good flood.. living in this area, i see the buildup to the annual flooding of Fargo every year..
i've kind of given up on feeling sorry for people that live in a flood plain when they get flooded. especially if they rebuild in the same spot after one good flood.. living in this area, i see the buildup to the annual flooding of Fargo every year..
the Mississippi is a big river with a huge drainage basin that extends from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Appalachian mountains up almost to the Great Lakes in the east and almost up to the Canadian border in MN, and as such is going to have a big flood plain. don't build there or live there and you won't have to worry about the "hundred year floods" that seem to happen every 5 years or the "500 year floods" that happen every 10 years.
The Morganza Spillway had to be open or the results would have made Katrina look like a light flood after a heavy downpour. The predicted flood map showed water as deep as 25ft from north of Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico (I'm guessing that's around 150 miles).
This would have crippled the US economy. 20% of gasoline in the US is refined from Baton Rouge to south of New Orleans. Also the Port of New Orleans is one of the most important ports in the US.
It's unfortunate that some people's homes will flood, but they all knew that the possibility was there. I feel sorry for them, but they're "the lesser of two evils".
My house is about 500 yards from the Bonnet Carre spillway (the one they opened earlier this week). The water is getting pretty high up on the levee near my house. I'm hoping it holds....
Of course down here when that happens we just say: "Put on some rice, dinner is served".
I wonder about all that crop land, now being flooded,will that land be ruined for yrs to come or can it just be replanted once the water recedes?
I wonder about all that crop land, now being flooded,will that land be ruined for yrs to come or can it just be replanted once the water recedes?