#2382773 - 05/01/11 09:40 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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farmin68
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I hope someone will take some pictures
I agree. I hate to see it happen, but I want to see the video if they go through with it.
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#2383037 - 05/02/11 08:17 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Andy S.
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Lake County mayor Macie Roberson said he was advised that as of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, it was T-minus 21 hours and counting on the Birds Point Floodway. “We expect it to be blown about 1 p.m. tomorrow (Monday),” he said.
This schedule will not be met. They are onsite but cannot load the explosives because the weather is not cooperating.
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#2383044 - 05/02/11 08:20 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Lake County mayor Macie Roberson said he was advised that as of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, it was T-minus 21 hours and counting on the Birds Point Floodway. “We expect it to be blown about 1 p.m. tomorrow (Monday),” he said. This schedule will not be met. They are onsite but cannot load the explosives because the weather is not cooperating.
Kinda confusing, the mayor is saying there is a T-minus time yet the corps facebook page still says no decision to actually activate has been made. 
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#2383049 - 05/02/11 08:25 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Birds Point New Madrid Floodway Joint Information Center
Crews are continuing to fill pipes along levees. We will keep posting regular updates
This was just posted on the facebook page.
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#2383073 - 05/02/11 08:44 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Kinda confusing, the mayor is saying there is a T-minus time yet the corps facebook page still says no decision to actually activate has been made.
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#2383087 - 05/02/11 08:56 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Walsh, president of the Mississippi River Commission, on Sunday directed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews to move barges of explosives across the river to Missouri and load the pipes with the blasting agents that, if detonated, would send water flowing over more than 130,000 acres in Mississippi County.
The order came about 3:30 p.m. Sunday and corps officials said loading the pipes with the "slurry" -- a liquid mix of aluminum powder and sodium perchlorate -- would take about 20 hours, meaning the work should be completed by noon today.
Walsh said he would review the situation continuously as conditions change. The next step, and the final one, would be to activate the floodway by artificially breaching the levee. The final decision to activate the floodway has not been made, the corps said.
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1723455.html
Edited by Dodge Man (05/02/11 08:57 AM)
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#2383089 - 05/02/11 08:59 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Supreme Court denies request to stop levee breach
Monday, May 2, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday refused to halt a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to blast open a levee to relieve the rain-swollen Mississippi River even as the Illinois town at risk of flooding was cleared out.
As Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued his ruling, struggling Cairo near the confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers resembled a ghost town.
Illinois National Guard troops went door to door with law enforcers to enforce the mayor's "mandatory" evacuation order the previous night.
Alito did not comment in denying Missouri's request to block the corps' plan. Alito handles emergency requests from Missouri and other states in the 8th Circuit in the Midwest.
Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, the corps officer in charge of deciding whether to breach the levee, ordered field crews to move barges to the Missouri side of the river and begin loading pipes in the levee with explosives in anticipation of blowing up a two-mile section just downriver from Cairo. He stressed that the decision to do so has not been made.
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1723460.html
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#2383162 - 05/02/11 10:17 AM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Kinda confusing, the mayor is saying there is a T-minus time yet the corps facebook page still says no decision to actually activate has been made. I would put my trust in the Corps FB page but pay very close attention to the words that are used. For example, the Corps has been giving the "authority" to blow them and they are "preparing" them by filling the holes with explosives but this does not 100% mean they will "activate" them. Common sense tells me it will happen, but only MG Walsh can make that decision. Anything prior to his "official decision" is pure speculation. Just pointing this out because words have to be chosen wisely with all the media their looking for any tidbits to make a headline story (regardless if it is factual or not).
They've pumped the levees before, only to remove the explosives. It's just part of a well rehearsed and well planned execution. They will wait until the last possible minute to blow the levees. Keep in mind this is an absolute, last-ditch remedy, and one that will be heavily thought out before implementation. It's the Cuban Missile Crisis of the USACE flood control program.
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