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03/05/2011 4:12 am
The levee was blown up about 10PM tonight.
First portion of levee breached at Birds Point - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff
And this article talks about the Morganza and Bonnet Carre spillways:
Army Corps decides to blow up Missouri levee - Yahoo! News
For background articles, see the postings in the Upper Mississippi flooding thread, which was getting too long.
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03/05/2011 12:28 pm
06/05/2011 1:17 pm
Thanks, Judy, for posting the link to those videos. It was briefly shown on tv while I was staying in Natchez, but more coverage was being given to the demise of Bin Laden than the flooding river!
A minister in the area told me that he'd heard boats with armed officers accompanied the towboat with the explosives experts, as they feared shots might be fired upon them!