Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Video: Flooded Missouri farmland after levee exploded

Late Monday night the US Army Corps of Engineers exploded the Birds Point levee in southeastern Missouri to save Cairo, Illinois. Over 130,000 acres of farmland is now flooded.

Courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, here's a video of the flyover of the the newly flooded land. Oh, I used to think central Illinois was the flattest spot on the planet. Until I drove through Mississippi County Missouri in 2007.



Related posts:

Army Corps of Engineers to blow up Missouri levee tonight

Mayor orders evacuation of Cairo, Illinois

Midwest flooding: My 2008 Cairo, Illinois posts

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If this flood was to save just Cairo, Ill, then I suggest everyone reading this visit Cairo. It's a half-abandoned non-descript slum of little or no economic importance. I drove through it on a Sunday morning and saw very few live epople. But I read yesterday that the people I did not see, the main population, is a minority, so we flood thousands of acres of fertile farmland in the name of political correctness.