U.S. plans to blow third hole in Missouri levee

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The government plans to blow up a third section of a Mississippi River levee on Wednesday night to allow flood water back into the river, as river levels upstream continue to drop.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blew up a two-mile section of the Birds Point levee Monday night, flooding about 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland, to ease flooding in towns in Illinois and Kentucky. A second, smaller section was detonated Tuesday afternoon to allow water back into the river.

Corps spokesman Jim Pogue said the Corps is waiting for additional explosive materials to reach the site of the third area. The earliest the site could be breached is 8 or 9 p.m. Wednesday night. No further breaches of the Birds Point type are planned, he said.

"The flood fight will not stop here, the entire system is experiencing flooding and we will continue our fight downstream," said Major Gen. Michael J. Walsh, president of the Mississippi River Commission, in a statement.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/04/us-weather-flooding-levee-idUSTRE7437O120110504?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

[Citizen Worker]

1. Just remember, climate change is a socialist commie pinko fascist plot to exert more government

control and take away our freedoms.

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2. Climate change had nothing to do with it.

It is because we let homosexuals have their way. Just listen to Uncle Fred Phelps and the Huckster and you will recognize the error of your ways. :sarcasm:

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3. k/r Let's really annoy ExxonMobil and call it what we've been calling it since 1957 ....

GLOBAL WARMING

Frank Luntz, GOP propagandist, ordered the name change to "climate change"


Meanwhile, it is HEAT which tells the story of Global Warming --

HEATING the atmosphere creates chaotic weather --

This will include not only increase numbers of storms, hurricanes, tornadoes,

cyclones --

but increasing numbers of earthquakes and more severe earthquakes --

Earthquakes in turn also generate more volcanic activity.