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...throw all your spare life jackets into the streams and rivers you live next too! we will need them down here in a few days the "big muddy" is breaching the levees again! the crest is expected to be @ 47.5ft and will surpass the "great flood of '27"

on a good note, the crawfish season is gonna be a long one

MOUNTIN DU wrote::? ...throw all your spare life jackets into the streams and rivers you live next too! we will need them down here in a few days the "big muddy" is breaching the levees again! the crest is expected to be @ 47.5ft and will surpass the "great flood of '27"

on a good note, the crawfish season is gonna be a long one

Grab Your family and fly up here, until the problem subsides. I gotta a bed for your whole clan..

..t

Hey T, make sure he brings those crawdads, been a long time since I've had em!!!

Prayers sent. Be it the bloody Red or the mighty Mississippi, those rivers are a beast when they get angry.

The White River has folks on I-40 having to take a 300 mile detour through here to get to Memphis, almost all on 2 lane rural roads. It probably is taking them 8 hours to cover what was a 90 minute stretch. Right now is the peak of striper season on the Arkansas River and I'm afraid all the fish are going to drown!

I will pray for you.

Ditto

well... the "corps" decided to open the morganza spillway & the bonnet carre' spillway this spells relief for us but krotz springs & morgan city are gonna suffer.

ya'll get the snow... we get the runoff! actually it does help with coastal errosion by sending all that silt down too.

Since I live in MN, have worked on flood remediation projects in Grand Forks and Fargo -- the waters you all get (other than those going north) are the direct result of loss of wet lands and drainage tiles in farm fields. When the snow melts, the ground is still frozen, and the run off heads to the inlets of the tiling, into the drainage ditches and then into the streams and rivers. There is no retention. Couple that with urban sprawl, storm sewer runoff and the problems move continually downstream. I once was at a contentious Council Meeting in a northern City where a concerned citizen put it right, "there is just too damn much asphalt!".

Well said. we really don't have a problem with the water & silt as long as it stays within it's bounds. they both play a very important role in our estuary system and is the primary reason for our valuable, one of a kind seafood industry.

Here's an interesting site that i belong to and may be of interest to some of you upstream guys
Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, it's chairman is Adolpus A. Busch and is supported by all our friends in the conservation & shooting sports world: nra, nra-ila, du, nwtf, sierra, qu, dw, rmef and many others.
http://www.grha.net

i wish all you guys well if you're affected or nearly affected by the flood waters.