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.
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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.
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