The 70-Mile-Wide River

In the 27 flood every flood control method on the Mississippi failed! Every one. By contrast in 2011 none failed. Even with a Project flood.
What LA had this weekend was a hurricane without wind.

http://www.msleveeboard.com/index.php/high-water-events/2011-flood

Posted by Mhf at August 16, 2016 12:21 PM

To experience a major flood is an experience I do not wish to live with again. Very rough for the people involved. God help them.

Posted by Terry at August 16, 2016 2:48 PM

Why do people move back?
Why do banks lend against property?
Why do insurers take the risk?- Oh' right, it's the Feds.

Posted by Bill Jones at August 16, 2016 3:22 PM

I've noticed increasingly the MSM labelling some event or occurrence as the biggest/worst/most destructive ever, when I know that there is some other event or occurrence that eclipsed the current event. Usually the older event took place within the last 100 years or even within my lifetime.

They aren't even trying anymore.

Posted by el baboso at August 16, 2016 8:37 PM

A little over 30 years ago I was working on a drilling prospect that was located South of Pointe al a Hache, Louisiana and I met a number of ancient family members who had grown up in the Bohemia area and who went through the 1927 Flood. They had photos to prove their experiences and the devastation that occurred.

That country had been used for production of oranges and raising cattle and it was dotted with homes and churches, schools and the like and after the flood waters receded little or nothing was left to indicate where anything had previously been situated.

I remember one photo in particular of the very top of a church steeple that remained intact and which revealed a crucifix projecting out of the mud. The remainder of the steeple and the church itself lay buried in mud and debris 30 feet or more beneath that little cross.

That sad little photo seemed to say that the only thing left after it has all been said and done is God.

Posted by Jack at August 17, 2016 8:06 AM

How did George Bush go back in time to 1927 and do that much damage?

As somebody said on the radio, it's pretty flat down there, and when it rains, the water really doesn't have much place to go. When it rains for days on end, you have one of these epochal floods.

Why do people go back? Because....it's their home. They live there, and are attached to the place and each other. It's not logical, but it is very human.

Posted by David at August 17, 2016 7:43 PM

a follow up
http://thehayride.com/2016/08/meet-the-heroes-of-the-cajun-navy-who-are-saving-many-lives-as-louisiana-floods/#ixzz4HekIgb3y

Posted by mhf at August 18, 2016 7:43 AM

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Posted by Mhf at August 19, 2016 1:53 PM

Not that I know of.

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