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Jindal says Morganza Floodway to open Saturday or Sunday; tells parishes to begin evacuation notifications

Published: Friday, May 13, 2011, 11:43 AM

In a news conference in Baton Rouge now underway, Gov. Bobby Jindal said the Army Corps of Engineers has made it clear to him that it will order the Morganza Floodway to be opened on Saturday or on Sunday at the latest.

“Now is the time to take action. Don’t delay, Don’t hope something will change,” Jindal said.

Jindal said he has asked state officials to tell parish governments to begin notifying their residents in areas in the Atchafalaya River basin expected to be flooded to begin evacuations. Some parishes have told him that they will complete notifications of residents of evacuation plans in a few hours, while others will need up to 48 hours.

http://www.nola.com/environment/index.s ... odway.html

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Cajun Country braces for Mississippi River floodwaters
Published: Friday, May 13, 2011

Army Corps of Engineers Col. Ed Fleming leaned over a podium and warned the crowd gathered at a volunteer fire station in Butte LaRose, La., that where they were standing was projected to be swamped by up to 15 feet of water from Mississippi River flooding. The crowd let out a collective gasp. "From the ground?" an incredulous resident shouted at the meeting Thursday. "From the ground," replied Fleming, head of the corps' New Orleans district.

To try to protect heavily populated Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the bulging Mississippi River, federal engineers are close to opening a massive spillway that would flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.

With that threat looming, some 25,000 people in an area known for small farms, fish camps, crawfish and a drawling French dialect are hurriedly packing their things and worrying that their homes and way of life might soon be drowned.

The corps could open the Morganza floodway north of Baton Rouge as early as this weekend, a move that would relieve pressure on the city's levee system.

Opening the gates for the first time in 38 years will unleash the Mississippi on a wild ride south to the Gulf of Mexico through the Atchafalaya River and divert floodwater from the river into the basin's swamplands, backwater lakes and bayous. Several thousand homes would be at risk of flooding.

Even if engineers decide not to open the spillway, no one seems to doubt that a major flood is bound for Butte LaRose, Krotz Springs, the oil-and-seafood hub of Morgan City and other swampland communities in the Atchafalaya Basin.

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http://www.nola.com/environment/index.s ... missi.html

[eyeno]

So far this is turning out pretty much like I expected. The amount of water coming down the river WAS NEVER IN QUESTION FROM THE BEGINNING. Measurements were taken, and all was known. Water runs down hill. But, no national tv coverage and cnn/fox quiet. They don't want people to be prepared for what is coming. They want surprise. And in my opinion Jindal is like Rick Perry of Texas. Playing the game because he wants a higher station in the big game later on in life. They could have told those people they would be under 15 feet of water if they open the gates but they didn't tell them. Now they know at the last minute and don't have time to prepare.

There is also a larger than normal snow pack that is now melting just in time to drain into this situation and keep it flooded longer than normal or flood it worse. My spidey sensor says this will be pure hell for thousands and thousands of people before it is all over. They knew all this a month ago but have kept knowledge that would allow people to prepare under the hat.

Flood may only be one of problems created by this before all is said and done. The tritium may serve as reason not to allow people back in, but just have to wait and see I suppose. I have a really bad feeling about this whole deal. Hope I am wrong.

PTB just announced, about a week ago, their intention to seize "viable farms, food, crops" in the event of emergencies. This means that not only has a HUGE portion of the nation's farm land and crops just been flooded, but now unflooded farms, crops, and all food is subject to seizure. Farmers in Texas report that PTB was knocking on their doors telling them that they were taking inventory of available farms, crops, too.

After it all gets flooded good and then if the ground shakes, well, say hello to hell.

I have two Katadyn ceramic reverse osmosis water filters. I bought the big Expedition filter a few years ago and also have the Pocket Katadyn filter. I didn't buy the water filters for this sort of shit, I bought them for camping, but I am glad that I have them. So if shit hits the fan i'm at least partially ready. Never thought I would follow the doomers into food stocking, but I am going out this week and stocking up on rice and dried peas and beans, putting it in vacuum sealed tubs, and waiting to see what happens.

I have only listened to about the first three minutes of the following so I have no idea where it is headed. Sounds interesting from the first three minutes so thought I would post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3gLNoeW ... ded#at=110

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Yes, I agree. As I'd made a comment a few pages ago, they blew up the friggin levee! The water is coming. You'd think somebody would have said something about evacuating last week. Well, lots of nervous people here now!

Where are you located eyeno? I too have water purifiers (Berkey light, sport Berkey, etc.). I want to get the reverse osmosis deal too. I guess I'm what you're calling a 'doomer' as I already have lots of beans and rice. Just fyi, beans in cans can last a long time as they are alkaline based. I just exchanged my red sauces stock as those are acidic and expire in 3-4 years. I just did that a few weeks ago. As things get ready to expire, I donate it to a local church.

Anyway, listening to the youtube link. Its covering a variety of topics. Interesting.

[eyeno]

I am located too far north of the flood to get flooded. But if the ground shakes it could be rough on a whole lot of people that are not even in the flood or shake zone if close enough to it.

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You keep HAARPing on this supposed near term earthquake. (I know, terrible pun) I sure hope you are wrong, but after no reply from you to my Cayce map (SLAD was kind enough to post) comment (I will assume now that it was intended as a silent confirmation?), it sounds like that might be exactly what you're worried about. I'm nowhere near suspicious about this flood as you seem to be, but that may be the enormous denial I am in. Normalcy bias may yet do me in. Simply, they just don't really give a shit about us anymore. Disconnected government and a broken social contract. i certainly feel for all the people who weren't notified till last week that hey, we maybe have a slight problem here. They have about 3-4 days to pack up and GTFO.

[eyeno]

You keep HAARPing on this supposed near term earthquake. (I know, terrible pun) I sure hope you are wrong, but after no reply from you to my Cayce map comment (I will assume now that it was intended as a silent confirmation?), it sounds like that might be exactly what you're worried about. I'm nowhere near panicky about this, but that may be the enormous denial I am in. Normalcy bias may do me in. i certainly feel for all the people who weren't notified till last week that hey, we maybe have a slight problem here. They have about 3-4 days to pack up and GTFO.

I guess I missed your comment or question about the Cayce map. The Cayce map, in my opinion, isn't all that mysterious. It stands to reason that the Mississippi will continue to widen. It also stands to reason that a major fault in the same area could create a cleavage in the earth at this location. It could take thousands of years or I suppose it could happen over night, but the map that Cayce drew up, which is also supposed to be similar to an authentic Navy Map, seems perfectly reasonable given the geological structures in the region.

As far as haarp goes I have done enough homework on that subject to 'know' without question that the capability of this system far exceeds what any humans should have access too. I don't just 'sort of feel like' this system could shake ground I already know with no hesitation that it can. There is so much information available as to the power of this system that doubting its capability reveals only an unstudied perspective. This system does not need immense power to be effective which is the beauty of it. However, it is powered with enough man made power to give it enormous capability.

The 'sort of feel' comes into play when speculating as to whether it has or will be used for ill. Disaster capitalism is an ancient economic practice. Those with occult knowledge that knew when floods and disaster were likely kept it secret in an effort to capitalize on those who did not know calamity was likely and this would be form of LIHOP. Burning or poisoning crops would be an ancient form of MIHOP.

This veiled war taking place on the earth right now is full of veiled threats. When the fed wants the debt ceiling raised it usually comes with a veiled threat such as the one the Bernanke just issued recently. The potential combination of LIHOP and MIHOP makes all this a fuzzy ground in which a person often has to rely on intuition because sometimes no amount of rigor will reveal the truth.

I just have a bad feeling about the potentials that exist. Whether or not those potentials will become reality remains to be seen.

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Well, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle the idea. I did listen to the interview you posted and he sounds very credible. And again, I thank you for keeping an eye on this.
I will repost as it was several pages back, and without the title, it could have been missed. i thought it worthy of a listen.-

Brooks Agnew Explains HAARP Earthquakes and Weather Modification on Coast to Coast AM

Podcast

http://gramercyimages.com/blog1/2011/05 ... -coast-am/

[eyeno]

This happened on May 10, 2011 in Texas. Big X Band radar moved into Seattle the other day. No clue. Just documenting because it is interesting. Seen transformers blow up but never this many.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HXq3eks7E

http://www.metafilter.com/103444/What-i ... es-is-that
What in the blue blazes is that?
May 12, 2011 8:52 PM Subscribe
A string of electrical transformers exploding in Fort Worth, TX.

From the YouTube description:

This is the aftermath of a pretty brutal thunderstorm in Fort Worth Texas on May 10, 2011. It was taken from my balcony on the 34th floor of a building in Fort Worth. Though I thought we were at war or was terrorism, it was a massive series of power transformers blowing. As I took it with my 70-200 2.8L IS lens, it is farther away than it looks. (it is 5 miles away) That is why there are not explosion sounds. This was a very well documented event. I was on my balcony to take lightning pictures (Yes, not smart) and this started happening in front of me. I turned my camera (Canon 5d MkII) to video mode and let it roll.

I have been reading the comments. I would like to answer some questions.
It is not fake. It is not doctored. (you are giving my video skills too much credit, thanks.) As you can see by all the other lights, it is not taken with an IR setup or something. It is simple a video of an expensive weather disaster. The explosions are along a 4 mile path. They look closer together because this was 5 miles away zoomed in.

If this was fake, I would have put in some good explosion sounds, not birds. (I probably could handle that technically.) This IS NOT FAKE IN ANY MANNER.

It is not a function of lens flair, though I do believe the rain made the illumination more visible than it would have been. What this video does not show well is that the clouds above were illuminated with it all.

I am prepared to have a lab analyze this video for authenticity. Believe me. What you are looking at is a video camera set up on my tripod on my balcony. Period. No colors added, not special effects, no sounds. I do not even know how to adjust a video for brightness or contrast. (I am a photo guy, not a video guy.)
Anybody doubting the facts only needs to check the news sources or the power company. (Encore Electric) for verification. Luckily, hundreds of people watched it all. I have video of lots of emergency vehicle arriving to deal with the resultant fires.
Also, this is actually just 1 of 5 videos I took. I will post the others when I get time. I am not sure this is even the best video I have. Too easy to verify it all.

For all of you that complimented my video, and believe it is what is seems to be, thank you. NOT FAKE. 100% Real. Stand by for my other videos. I am not saying doubters do not have a right to doubt. Just that they are wrong.

BTW, I did get my wife to reduce the file size of my video radically before I could squeeze it on to YOUTUBE without an error. (on her Mac i-video) My camera takes multi gig clips. It can only take videos for 4 minutes at a time before it overheats. (See Canon web site.)
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[eyeno]

Cairo where they blew the Bird's Point Levee is on the 37th latitude.

I have not checked this info for myself but I read the following so if true the X37B satellite and its orbits may be interesting to watch. It was over the Loyalty Islands when Japan had had two 7 magnitude quakes. X37B went up to approx 200 mile altitude orbit in early March for over (200 days), when the snows started to melt in many places. 3 days after launch (march 8-9) the 2 x 7.0 quakes hit Japan, X37B was in orbit over it at the time. 3 days later the 9.2 quake struck. The X-37B orbit was over Japan at the time.




This is from the whitehouse . gov blog.

Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part I

Posted by Tammy Dickinson and David Applegate on May 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM EDT

Ed. Note: This is the first of a two-part blog focusing on the science and aftermath of earthquakes. Part I focuses on the science of a high-magnitude earthquake and whether one could happen in the United States. Tomorrow, Part II will focus on What We Can Do About It.

Part I: Could a 9.0 Happen Here?

Four deadly earthquakes in just over a year—Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan—have provided sudden reminders of the tectonic forces active beneath our feet. Perhaps more importantly, they serve as reminders that disasters resulting from those earthquakes are not the work of nature alone. Even in the face of such giant forces, societal decisions before and after an earthquake can have a major impact on the amount of damage, lives lost, and other outcomes. So while scientists and engineers share in society’s obligation to help the victims, we have an additional responsibility to learn from these events and share lessons that can be applied to vulnerable communities—not only abroad, but also here in the United States.

To make those wise decisions requires some basic geology. Most people know that the crust of the Earth is broken into about a dozen major sections, or plates, (and a number of smaller ones) that slowly move against one another. And when plates collide, the rock material in the collision zone is strained and eventually either breaks or slips along the boundary, causing an earthquake. Less widely appreciated is that the largest earthquakes occur along plate boundary zones where one plate is driven down beneath another. Most of these “subduction zones” are located around the rim of the Pacific Ocean in what is known as the Ring of Fire, so called because these regions are also particularly prone to volcanic eruptions.

As it turns out, Japan sits on or near the intersection of four of these plates, with the ensuing high risk from earthquakes and volcanoes. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, was the largest to have struck Japan since seismic recording began 130 years ago and was the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded worldwide, releasing approximately 1,000 times the energy of the Haiti earthquake of January 2010. In that light it is remarkable that the damage and loss of life was not far greater than it was—a tribute to Japan’s sizable and science-based investments in strict building codes, public preparedness, and earthquake and tsunami early warning systems. In particular, the current estimates of lives lost just from the shaking of this giant earthquake number in the low hundreds. More on this in Part Two of this blog, which we’ll post tomorrow. But it’s important to remember that even as nations begin the humbling process of rethinking certain assumptions about earthquake potential, nuclear safety, and tsunami protection, we must also use the lessons of what went right to redouble ongoing efforts to build resilient communities.

Is this really a problem that the United States has to worry about? The short answer is yes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 39 U.S. states have moderate-to-high earthquake hazard, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Marianas Islands. These states include the ones people think of along the West Coast, but also ones in the Mountain West, the Central United States (where we are this year commemorating the bicentennial of a series of magnitude-7 earthquakes that struck the Mississippi Valley in 1811-12), and the East, where magnitude-7 earthquakes have struck as recently as the 1880s. Over all, annualized earthquake losses in the U.S. are estimated at $5.3 billion.

That figure could be dwarfed, of course, in the event of a magnitude-9 earthquake. And while the exact location, timing, or intensity of earthquakes cannot be predicted, the U.S. West Coast has two subduction zones—the type of plate boundary that is off the coast of Honshu, Japan—capable of magnitude-9 earthquakes. One is offshore of southern Alaska and the other is offshore a length of the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from Vancouver, BC, to Northern California—a region known as “Cascadia.” Earthquakes in southern Alaska produced major tsunamis in 1946, 1957, 1964, and 1965. The Cascadia zone last ruptured in 1700 and has an average recurrence interval of 500-600 years. The subduction zone in the eastern Caribbean has generated magnitude-8 earthquakes as recently as 1946. The 30-year probability of a magnitude-7 or greater earthquake in California is 94%, a number that fortunately drops to 4% for magnitude-8 or greater. Clearly, when it comes to a giant U.S. temblor, it is not a question of “if” but of “when.”

Tomorrow: What We Can Do About It

Tammy Dickinson is a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

David Applegate is Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake & Geologic Hazards at the US Geological Survey

Part II: What We Can Do About It

There is nothing we can do to stop the movement of the Earth’s plates or the associated earthquakes, and the recent earthquake in Japan is a reminder that low-probability, high-impact events can strike anytime. This situation demands that nations, communities, and individual families take steps to develop resilience to hazards generally—a process that requires the collective action of government at all levels as well as nonprofit organizations, the private sector, and individuals.

Resilience—in the form of mitigation preparedness activities and improved public understanding—can help ensure that their impacts on society are greatly reduced. Science and technology can play a critical role in the quest for disaster resilience,and scientists and engineers have much to contribute. But doing so requires effective mechanisms to translate and implement their research-derived knowledge. That is precisely the goal of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)—an interagency endeavor involving the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and National Science Foundation.

One example of NEHRP’s value is its work translating research into the creation of building codes. Every five years the USGS updates its national seismic hazard maps, which estimate earthquake probabilities for various areas based on past frequency of large earthquakes, seismicity patterns, strain accumulation in the Earth’s crust, and other factors that are the subject of active research. This information forms the basis for FEMA-produced design maps that form the seismic provisions in model building codes adopted in earthquake-prone areas.

Building codes are crucial to mitigating the impact of earthquakes. Consider that rebuilding was the defining challenge in the wake of the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti in January, while Chile weathered a magnitude-8.8 earthquake the following April with far fewer casualties and less damage, thanks to prudent investments in planning and construction.

The lessons of that contrast were reinforced at a March 2010 workshop convened by the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction along with the State Department and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, attended by over 100 leading geoscientists, earthquake engineers, planners, architects, emergency managers, building code officials, and a delegation of Haitian government officials and academics. Key findings from the workshop included the need to adopt and enforce international building codes, especially for construction of schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure being funded by international donors; develop cost-effective design guidelines for residential structures; and incorporate assessments of earthquake, inland flooding, and landslide hazards in the planning and rebuilding process, so that people are not put straight back into harm’s way. The findings also emphasized the central importance of building local science and engineering capabilities as the best way to sustain a more hazard-resilient approach. These recommendations were finalized in a report that was delivered to the donors participating in a major conference the following week in New York, where pledges were made for more than $8 billion in aid. These guidelines have been used to shape investment strategies for the UN, USAID, Clinton Foundation, World Bank, and many other donors.

Understanding earthquakes and their effects is of vital importance to the Nation. As the population increases, expanding urban development and construction works encroach upon areas susceptible to earthquakes. With a greater understanding of the causes and effects of earthquakes and how they impact buildings, infrastructure, and society itself, we may be able to reduce damage and loss of life from this destructive phenomenon. Progress will be slow, excruciatingly so at times, but given the extent to which resilience can benefit communities beyond just the earthquake threat, it is progress worth striving toward.

[eyeno]

Dutch is seeing the big x band radar in Seattle but he doesn't realize it. Guess he didn't know the big x band moved in. And interestingly enough they also are blocking out panels on the weather radar so that their rings won't show up.



http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse# ... wHqSc50D8U

[eyeno]

Also right now I am looking at the weirdest intellicast radar image I have ever seen. The storm at seattle is standing still. And everything exactly on top of New Madrid is rotating in a counter clockwise circle. And right above New Madrid the storms are going in the wrong direction, headed West instead of East. Really weird. I look at it several times a day and never seen this before. The storm at seattle has a big square in it too but i've seen those before a lot after dutch turned me on to those. Everything exactly above new madrid in a huge area is rotating in a counter clockwise circle very slowly and that is definitely not normal.

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMapFull.aspx

[stoneonstone]

I'm taking this stuff very seriously.

For about 7 years I worked in the weather department of a television station, creating the maps. Since I left the city I've been a winegrower, and look at radar maps everyday.

This shit is just wrong. I've grabbed a few gif animations of massive networks of these circle phenomenon...two to three days before massive unsettled weather.. Makes no sense to me at all. Why isn't there any comment on this from those who use the images, and know that this is just wrong, or the data stream is becoming basically useless because of these networks.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the resulting weather is behaving very strangely...sitting without normal rotation or continental movement, which you always see. It sits stationary.

And this had me thinking last night....are the PTB using these rain clusters to flush Fukushima debris out of the skies, whenever spots get too 'hot'?

Given how the sites at Ground Zero in New York were flushed with heavy, heavy flows of water almost immediately after the destruction (and, yes, I am one that still leans to some sort of nuclear device as the only thing that could micro-pulverize all that concrete, vapourize most everything but the paper, and create those very strange vehicle burns around the area).

Anyway, a thought. And if it is flushing, and purposely flowing this crap into the Great Flood, it just may leave high concentrations of radioactive silt...which in ways helps explain the prep work like the various stories of tritium and other releases going on at the moment through the midwest.

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Imagine, all of a sudden being told out of the blue, 'you have 4 days to save everything you own, and GTFO and be prepared to stay away for AT LEAST 60 days.'
People are packing up trailers and u-hauls in a frantic effort to save what they can. Really fucked up. Entire towns are likely to be suddenly submerged. It has to be so, but all I'm thinking is that these people should have been told weeks ago.

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RIVER WATCH SEGMENTS (two video reports on prep/evacuations)

'What gives them the right to flood us?' asks Gibson woman- 3 minute WWL-TV Video clip/report. Its pretty good.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/river-watch/W ... 18604.html

by WWLTV.com
wwltv.com
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:14 PM
Updated yesterday at 10:18 PM

GIBSON, La. -- Terrebonne Parish residents filled thousands of sandbags as they made final preparations in anticipation of the opening of the Morganza spillway.
Inmates will be brought in Saturday morning to help with the effort.

Cindy Prejent, a Gibson resident, worries that her house will flood from water that is set to be let loose through the Morganza spillway. She spent Friday filling sandbags with friends and family in an effort to try and protect her home. “We have dogs, everything to move,” said Prejent. “We have to get them out of here, regardless.”

Prejent is one of 25,000 Louisianans whose home could be flooded once the Morganza is opened – a move to relieve pressure on the swollen Mississippi River to protect major cities in the state like New Orleans and Baton Rouge. “What gives them the right to flood us?” said Prejent. “I understand it, but there are so many communities and so many farmers and so many businesses.”

Gov. Bobby Jindal said that Army Corps of Engineer officials were given the green light by the Mississippi River Commission to open the spillway on Saturday. Built in 1954, the Morganza spillway has only been opened once, in 1973. The western part of Terrebonne Parish, where Prejent’s home lies in Gibson, is expected to get up to five feet of water.

Parish officials are getting ready for the inundation of water. “I’m particularly concerned because the western part of the parish, where the Morganza flooding is designated to take place is one of the poorer portions of our parish,” said Parish President Michel Claudet, “and oftentimes those are the same individuals that don’t have flood insurance.” Crews have been brought in from outside the parish to help protect areas. At Gibson Elementary School, teachers plan to work through the weekend to get the school ready move equipment away from potential floodwaters.
“It’s the not knowing, the unpredictable,” said Monica Breaux, principal for Gibson Elementary. “We don’t know how high the water will get here, and I’m afraid this will disrupt things. We are going to try and keep things as normal as possible for as long as we can.”

In the years since the Morganza was last opened, there are marked differences in the area, especially in towns like Gibson.
“We are much more populated than we were before,” said Claudet. “Areas that were predominately agriculture have now been inhabited.”
Prejent’s home sits on a former sugar cane field, and when she built her home she said she had no idea she was in a flood plain.
“Everybody pray for us for everybody here in Gibson because everybody is in the same situation,” she said.


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Furious attempt made to save subdivision in harm's way -1:38 video report
http://www.wwltv.com/video?id=121812929&sec=892494
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:44 PM
It’s an unprecedented effort in an attempt to keep homes from possible flooding in the town of Stephensville

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RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Rev. Lawrence Abara uses his trunk to move the Station of the Cross out of Sacred Heart Chapel in Butte LaRose on Friday, May 13, 2011. The area is expect to flood if the Morganza Floodway is opened. Items from the Catholic church are being moved to Our Lady of Mercy Church in Henderson where Fr. Abara is pastor.


RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Troy Alleman, left, of Lafayette, and Jude Duhon , of Rayne, load a truck with sandbags in Butte LaRose on Friday, May 13, 2011. The area is expect to flood if the Morganza Floodway is opened. The men were helping Barbara Miller sandbag her camp.


RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Danny Prejean painted a water level marker on a plastic pipe in front of his home in Butte LaRose on Friday, May 13, 2011. The Atchafalaya River is expected to crest at 29 feet.


TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A surveyor looks over the massive amount of water coming through the Old River Low Sill Structure, north of Morganza, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, which is intended to divert 30 percent of the Mississippi River volume toward the Atchafalya River Basin.


TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Jonathan Flowers and Steve Willie survey the Old River Low Sill Structure, north of Morganza, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, which is intended to divert 30 percent of the Mississippi River volume toward the Atchafalya River Basin. The point of the survey was to see if the structure was moving due to the massive amounts of water coming through it.

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La. readies to open spillway, flood Cajun country
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Updated today at 11:34 AM
LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) — Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's populated Cajun country.
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Some people living in the threatened stretch of countryside — an area known for small farms, fish camps and a drawling French dialect — have already started fleeing for higher ground.
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Opening the spillway will release a torrent that could submerge about 3,000 square miles under as much as 25 feet of water in some areas but take the pressure off the downstream levees protecting New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the numerous oil refineries and chemical plants along the lower reaches of the Mississippi.

"Protecting lives is the No. 1 priority," Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said at a news conference aboard a vessel on the river at Vicksburg. A few hours later, the corps made the decision to open the key spillway and inundate thousands of homes and farms in Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Engineers feared that weeks of pressure on the levees could cause them to fail, swamping New Orleans under as much as 20 feet of water in a disaster that would have been much worse than Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Instead, the water will flow 20 miles south into the Atchafalaya Basin. From there it will roll on to Morgan City, an oil-and-seafood hub and a community of 12,000, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Krotz Springs area was in a sliver of land north of Morgan City, about 70 miles long and 20 miles wide. The finger-shaped strip of land was expected to be inundated with 10- to 20-feet of water, according to Army Corps of Engineers estimates. It will take hours and days for the water to run south, and wasn't expected to reach Morgan City until around Tuesday.
The corps employed a similar cities-first strategy earlier this month when it blew up a levee in Missouri — inundating an estimated 200 square miles of farmland and damaging or destroying about 100 homes — to take the pressure off the levees protecting the town of Cairo, Ill., population 2,800.
The disaster was averted in Cairo, a bottleneck where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet.

This intentional flood is more controlled, however, and residents are warned by the corps each year in written letters, reminding them of the possibility of opening the spillway, which is 4,000 feet long and has 125 gate bays.

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http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/121824499.html

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Rising Mississippi River may take toll on businesses
As the Mississippi River continues to rise and state and local officials make plans for how to handle the deluge of water heading South, businesses in Louisiana are preparing for shutdowns and financial losses.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.s ... may_t.html

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Corp opens Morganza in effort relieve pressure on river



Corps 8 min press conference.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/river-watch/S ... 32944.html

Michael Luke / Eyewitness News
MORGANZA SPILLWAY, La. - For only the second time since it was constructed, the Morganza spillway was opened in an effort to relieve pressure off a swollen Mississippi River, which is at historic levels.

At 3 p.m., the first bay of the spillway was opened and a torrent of water from the Mississippi River began rushing out into the Atchafalaya Basin. Within minutes of the opening as water spewed from a single bay, most of the ground that reporters and officials stood on a minutes earlier was inundated with water.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineer official Col. Ed Fleming made the announcement from the base of the spillway around 1:15 p.m.

"This is a historic day," said Fleming. "This is a historic day not only for the entire Mississippi River but also for the state of Louisiana."
Before the opening, Fleming said the corps will work with towns to be impacted by water set loose through the Morganza to mitigate flooding in those areas.
"We've issued hundreds of thousands of sandbags, tens of thousands of feet of Hesco baskets in places like Butte La Rose, Morgan City and Amelia," said Fleming. "It is important to remember that we are here with these communities that are fighting this flood."
Only one bay of the 125 bays was opened at 3 p.m.

Fleming said Sunday officials expect to open one to two more. The initial bay sent approximately 10,000 cubic feet per second of water cascading into the Atchafalaya Basin.
"This system is under tremendous pressure," said Maj. General Michael Walsh, head of the Mississippi River Commission. "This is still a very serious flood."
To reduce levels along the Mississippi River, which has flooded areas from the Midwest through the Mississippi Delta, Walsh said the corps has already opened two floodways -- New Madrid and Bonnet Carre. The Morganza spillway made the third.

On May 9, crews began opening the Bonnet Carre spillway. Beginning on May 3, crews dynamited a levee at the Birds Point - New Madrid floodway, intentionally breaching the levee to relieve pressure on the river. Fleming said that capacity of the Morganza is 600,000 cubic feet per second if fully opened, but he said that projections only having the spillway opened at 125,000 cubic feet per second, 25 percent of capacity. Even before crews opened the first bay of the Morganza, water from the Mississippi River could be seen coming through spaces in the bays -- a sign of the tremendous pressure on the spillway.

Once the spillway is opened, the homes of 25,000 people will be in jeopardy as water flows into the basin, endangering towns in the path of the water.
Walsh said the crest on the Mississippi is currently in Arkansas. According to proejections, the crest should hit the area around the Morganza on May 24 and should last 10 to 14 days, said Walsh. Fleming expected the spillway to remain open for several weeks and added that it could be several weeks after the spillway was closed for residents to return home.
Built in 1954, the Morganza spillway was last opened in 1973, when 54 bays were opened to relieve pressure on the river.

http://www.wwltv.com/news/river-watch/S ... 32944.html
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Inundation map timeline to approaching water to areas at link (image was rather large so thought it best to link and not post jpeg)
http://images.bimedia.net/images/51311-floodmap.jpg

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Gallery: Corps of Engineers plans opening Morbanza Floodway Saturday (17 photos)
http://photos.nola.com/4500/gallery/cor ... index.html

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