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http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/01/missouri.levee.breach/index.html?hpt=T2
Levels of still rising Mississippi, Ohio rivers at all-time highs
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 1, 2011 9:28 p.m. EDT
The Mississippi River overflowed its banks near Cairo, Illinois, last week
...Sutton said her aunt and uncle have evacuated two homes near the levee, moving out all their possessions, and are now living in a camper. "They honestly think they'll have nothing to go back to," she said, adding the Corps of Engineers has told them the water will cover their home by at least 5 or 6 feet.
The levee was breached before, in 1937. But, Jones and Sutton pointed out, the area was heavily forested then, with trees to slow the water before it reached the second levee. That forestation is no longer there, they said.
Koster's office said last week that "the flooding would leave a layer of silt on the farmland that could take as much as a generation to clear, causing significant injury to the quality of the farmland for many years."
Still, even if they don't prefer it, not everyone in the Show-Me State opposes the levee breach if it's truly a last resort.
Sutton said her family has traditionally made its living farming, but "when it comes over people's lives to farmland, I say save the lives."
"They say it's going to help Cairo, then I'm for it," she said. "But I have a feeling that will destroy Mississippi County, financially bankrupt our county."
CNN's Ashley Hayes, Bill Mears and Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report.
Good Lord that's got to be frightening!
Ms. Sutton's heart is in the right place and I hope if anything catastrophic happens in order to save Cairo that there are relief plans and/or charities that can help them come back stronger than they were before the flood.
Levels of still rising Mississippi, Ohio rivers at all-time highs
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 1, 2011 9:28 p.m. EDT
The Mississippi River overflowed its banks near Cairo, Illinois, last week
...Sutton said her aunt and uncle have evacuated two homes near the levee, moving out all their possessions, and are now living in a camper. "They honestly think they'll have nothing to go back to," she said, adding the Corps of Engineers has told them the water will cover their home by at least 5 or 6 feet.
The levee was breached before, in 1937. But, Jones and Sutton pointed out, the area was heavily forested then, with trees to slow the water before it reached the second levee. That forestation is no longer there, they said.
Koster's office said last week that "the flooding would leave a layer of silt on the farmland that could take as much as a generation to clear, causing significant injury to the quality of the farmland for many years."
Still, even if they don't prefer it, not everyone in the Show-Me State opposes the levee breach if it's truly a last resort.
Sutton said her family has traditionally made its living farming, but "when it comes over people's lives to farmland, I say save the lives."
"They say it's going to help Cairo, then I'm for it," she said. "But I have a feeling that will destroy Mississippi County, financially bankrupt our county."
CNN's Ashley Hayes, Bill Mears and Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report.
Good Lord that's got to be frightening!
Ms. Sutton's heart is in the right place and I hope if anything catastrophic happens in order to save Cairo that there are relief plans and/or charities that can help them come back stronger than they were before the flood.