Army Expects Full Breach of Missouri River Levee

[ShockediSay]

Source: AP

Crews scrambled Monday to protect a southwest Iowa town from the swollen Missouri River, but local officials said it's unclear whether they'll be able to prevent the river from leaving the community under several feet of water for weeks.

If efforts to pile massive sandbags on a faltering levee and build a secondary barrier fail, part of Hamburg could be under as much as 8 feet of water for a month or more, Fire Chief Dan Sturm said. Flooding along the river this summer — expected to break decades-old records — will test the system of levees, dams and flood walls like never before.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/06/us/AP-US-Missouri-River-Flooding.html

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When will they ever learn climate change is for real?

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[DallasNE]

2. A Combination Of Events Merge

The upstream reservoirs are dangerously full from snow melt and pressure must be removed from those damns so releases at Gavins Point Dam are causing some flooding at points downstream. Add in the heavy rain that has been relentless all spring and the Missouri River is at its highest level since the 1951 floods that led to the construction of levees now in place. Last year we also had this same problem but on a little smaller scale. Warmer Gulf waters means more evaporation and more precipitation. It is just that simple and the effects are predictable. And all of this water ends up in the still flooding Mississippi.

[sofa king]

3. So I guess this is one of those semi-annual "hundred year floods."