500 YEAR FLOOD: Mississippi River Flows Backwards...

[platinumdude]

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/weather/all-eyes-on-the-mississippi-river-rpt-20110428

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Mississippi River continues to rise, so much so that its tributaries are starting to flow backwards. At Tom Lee Park, preps for Memphis in May continue knowing that the worst is still yet to come.

t's a site not often seen; the Wolf River and Nonconnah Creek are flowing backwards. The swelling river cannot take on much more water.

Gene Rench with the National Weather Service said all eyes are on the Mississippi. The tributaries flowing backwards are a big problem for the adjacent communities.

"Right now the Mississippi river is in the process of going through what we call an epic flood, meaning it's more than historic, it's more than a 100 year flood, it's more like a 500 year flood," he said. "We could flood many homes, businesses, close down factories, people could drown."

The river is more than two feet past flood stage; it rose two feet in the 24 hours following the storms. It's expected to crest at 45 feet around May 10th, right when Barbecue Festival teams are setting up their tents.

Memphis in May's Diane Hampton said they can deal with the forecasted 45 foot river. "At that point Tom Lee Park is not underwater; it's very close, but it's not flooded."

Hampton said they are preparing for the worst and looking at alternate locations for the Championship Cooking Contest, but remain confident it will stay downtown.

As for Music Fest, the only change is the city is pulling up the direct electricity and everything will run on generators.

"The river is not going to stop anything this weekend, other than the flood of people that's going to be down here," Hampton said.

Admittedly, she said the river has a mind of its own.

The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to out smart it by shutting down the Tennessee River and closing all other tributaries and dams that feed into the Mississippi.

According to Rench, "we're hoping and praying that the plans and actions that the Corp has taken, this strategy is going to work."

As the Mississippi River rises to near-record levels, Tunica's nine casinos will shut down indefinitely, displacing about 10,000 workers and costing millions in lost dollars. The closure orders were issued Wednesday to ensure the safety of visitors and workers.

All visitors must be off the property by 2 p.m. on the designated day. This anticipated closing schedule is based on current forecasts and is subject to change based on weather conditions.

[Cobalt]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands

[keehah]

http://www.huliq.com/10304/us-army-corps-engineers-blow-part-levy-save-illinois-town

The Army Corps of Engineers told the press that, essentially, the hope was that blowing a hole in the levees that are around and near Cairo would cause the levels of the Mississippi River to go down. Essentially, according to a spokesman, they would be creating a lake in empty Missouri farmland.

According to reports from the media, the Army Corps blew a hold in the Bird Point Levee near Wyatt, MO. The explosions happened late Monday night and the water immediately began pouring into 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland. There are also about 100 homes in the way of the cascading and rushing water...

The residents in nearby Wyatt, MO, gathered in the town’s city hall while the blasts at the levee occurred. They told the press that the explosions were much more powerful than they thought, and that many homes and businesses lost windows in the pressure wave after the explosion.

[silver solution]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!

[Hillbilly]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!


More wrecked farm land. Just think what this is going to do to food prices?

[ximmy]

Is anybody finding a correlation between this event & the gulf oil volcano, still in progress, but denied by mass media...

[Neuro]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!
I don't know, it used to be that floods were good for the farmland, in that sediment from the rivers contain a lot of minerals and the soil got replenished by a good flood, but maybe there is to much toxic waste in today's rivers...

[Spectrism]

I re-read this thread heading.... and a memory jumped out from long ago.

There was some prophecy about "when the Mississippi flows backwards".... anyone recall this?

The concept sound ridiculous -as if the whole river is elevated from the Gulf of Mexico... but in today's context, you can see that flooding downstream makes water flow upstream.

[horseshoe3]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!
I don't know, it used to be that floods were good for the farmland, in that sediment from the rivers contain a lot of minerals and the soil got replenished by a good flood, but maybe there is to much toxic waste in today's rivers...


The fresh silt can be good for the soil, but there is an awful lot of debris that comes with a flood and will be left in the fields. Houses, cars, trees and all manner of smaller trash that farm machinery can't handle. It takes a lot of work to clean up to the point where it can be farmed again. Not to mention the destruction of whatever happens to be growing there at the time.

[Cobalt]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!
I don't know, it used to be that floods were good for the farmland, in that sediment from the rivers contain a lot of minerals and the soil got replenished by a good flood, but maybe there is to much toxic waste in today's rivers...


The fresh silt can be good for the soil, but there is an awful lot of debris that comes with a flood and will be left in the fields. Houses, cars, trees and all manner of smaller trash that farm machinery can't handle. It takes a lot of work to clean up to the point where it can be farmed again. Not to mention the destruction of whatever happens to be growing there at the time.


Floods can be a good thing as far as washing salts left over from fertilizers and depositing new minerals behind but when they come late in the season, the soil is too saturated to be able to work let alone plant new crops.

Just the amount of rain we have had here in WA without any major flooding has set back the planting season by several weeks and having such a short growing season around here to begin with it really takes a toll on production levels.

[ShortJohnSilver]

I re-read this thread heading.... and a memory jumped out from long ago.

There was some prophecy about "when the Mississippi flows backwards".... anyone recall this?

The concept sound ridiculous -as if the whole river is elevated from the Gulf of Mexico... but in today's context, you can see that flooding downstream makes water flow upstream.




There was a 2005 book about the New Madrid earthquakes of the early 1800s.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2002242588_newmadrid17.html

Note that Tecumseh prophesied the earthquake and was able to convince the Cree to fight the white man as a consequence.

Also not noticed, survivors reported "much lightning" - this may have been the piezo-electric effect of stuff (specifically quartz) being crushed in the ground giving off electrical energy.

[oldmansmith]

The report I heard was talking about sand from the blown out levies ruining the farmland by burying it is sand (not silt).

[Quad]

Let me know when the Ohio and the Scioto start flowing backwards.

[Dogman]

Bet the people that live in the Atchafalaya River basin are sweating it! Morgan city could be washed out into the gulf if the Old River Control Structure fails. And if it does the Mississippi river Will change course and flow down the atchafalaya river, or to say it another way, the atchafalaya will become the Mississippi.

If it would do this , New Orleans would not have to worry about floods from the river anymore, but river traffic
may have problems.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_River_Control_Structure

[Olmstein]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!
I don't know, it used to be that floods were good for the farmland, in that sediment from the rivers contain a lot of minerals and the soil got replenished by a good flood, but maybe there is to much toxic waste in today's rivers...


Thank you, Neuro. I was beginning to think I was surrounded by retards. The reason the farmland near the Mississippi River is so rich, is due to the annual flooding that used to occur before the Corpse of Engineers fucked everything up. The best thing that could happen is fewer levees, and more frequent flooding.

[mick silver]

but what about the crops those farmer just lose . plus you dont think they will have to clean all the trash up . and plus it maybe over a month before you can even get on that land . i live alone the ohio river i have over 100ac under water right now and it will be a mess when it dry out , plus what i have losed so far

[PatColo]

I think the river is due to crest this week, 11th or 12th.

Deborah Dupre has done some recent articles on it,

National Project Flood (http://www.examiner.com/project-flood-in-national)

example articles inside link above:

Project Flood: What does '1-in-500 year flood' mean?
Project Flood: 7-Step Basic Survival Guide. 'Pre-Plan Now' says Red Cross
Project Flood: More Evacs. Miss. River an 'ocean.' 'Still time to get out.'
Project Flood: No problem says Army. Big problem say experts.
Project Flood: Official Warning issued. New Orleans
Project Flood: Explosives buried to blow up levee
Project Flood: A New Madrid false flag for Full Spectrum Dominance?

[Neuro]

Yeah I saw on the news where the Corp of Engineers started blowing up levies in Missouri today trying to give the water some place to go, the sad part is the place it will go is into the farmlands
This is crazy save small towns and flood out the farmers!!
I don't know, it used to be that floods were good for the farmland, in that sediment from the rivers contain a lot of minerals and the soil got replenished by a good flood, but maybe there is to much toxic waste in today's rivers...


Thank you, Neuro. I was beginning to think I was surrounded by retards. The reason the farmland near the Mississippi River is so rich, is due to the annual flooding that used to occur before the Corpse of Engineers fucked everything up. The best thing that could happen is fewer levees, and more frequent flooding.
Probably the very reason we sit here and plonk on computers even. The Nile river floods made the soil so rich, man didn't need to spend all his awake time chasing food. Now a small nuke on the Aswan dam in Egypt would wipe 99% of Egypts population in a few hours, now that is leverage... Stupid is as stupid does!

How is backwardation going btw?