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alp227
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Tue May-03-11 01:09 PM Original message |
River Level Drops After Blast at Levee |
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proud2BlibKansan
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Tue May-03-11 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. They fear farmland will be lost |
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madrchsod
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Tue May-03-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. the state moved shawneetown ,illinois in 1937 |
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Xithras
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Wed May-04-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Or raise it. |
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Devil_Fish
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Tue May-03-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. If you live in a town called "Spillway" perhaps you shouldn't be supprised...NT |
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Tue May-03-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. When the levee breaks momma you gotta move. |
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riderinthestorm
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Tue May-03-11 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. 130,000 acres of rich farmland will be lost for years, if not permanently, because of this. |
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Tue May-03-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I agree, but the immediate threat to people prevailed. Sometime back, there was.. |
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Nihil
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Wed May-04-11 07:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It's in a flood plain ... |
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riderinthestorm
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Wed May-04-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. No! This is a tsunami of sand, garbage, debris |
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Nihil
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Wed May-04-11 10:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Suggestion: Don't dump "garbage, debris and other toxic shit" in the river ... |
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riderinthestorm
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Wed May-04-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm not sure it's from dumping. It's the junk from the houses that flooded |
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apnu
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Wed May-04-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Or how about if there was no levee? The land would have flooded several times between no and 1937. |
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