The video below from TonyToneB at YouTube says it all. This is Davenport, Iowa, where they’re scared to death of the Mississippi River flooding, and where an extensive levee system has been in place for decades. And if this kind of flooding happens there, what’s going to happen here — with our cut-rate, politically-motivated levee so we can squeeze in the toll road?
Reuters reported on Wednesday that 19 levees along the Mississippi have failed, and 7 more are on watch. And for those in charge who tell us that these kinds of events are 100-year floods? The same thing happened in 1993, when the Mississippi crested in St. Louis at a record 49.4 feet. And reports are that this year’s flood is worse than the 1993 disaster.
