River is fixing to get serious, boys!!!

[H20 Fowl]

Tunica Casino....

I cant imagine what it will look like when it finally crest!

[marshman]

Can someone explain or put up a link to a site that would show what would be covered if the MS river levee was not there? I'm at 116ft and was curious what a crest of 64.5ft on the Greenville gage would cover if levees weren't there.

[TODO]

Can someone explain or put up a link to a site that would show what would be covered if the MS river levee was not there? I'm at 116ft and was curious what a crest of 64.5ft on the Greenville gage would cover if levees weren't there.

Total unscientific guess here, but im would assume all the way to bluff hills on east, vicksburg on south and memphis on north, crowleys ridge, maybe little rock to the west. This is why the delta is flat, right.

DoubleP, im on south end of lake. Fedu is on north end and prolly has water in his place today. I have 116 inches left as of about 4 o'clock and i think im the highest on Buelah. With wave action and all we will get a foot, maybe a little less. It looked like the beverley boatbillies over there today. Pontoons loaded to the gills with everything imaginable coming out of cabins. I got all my mounts and other personal stuff out too. It was a strange site.

[Wingman]

Gauge 0 at greenville is 74.92' above sea level. At 60 feet on the gauge, everything under 134.92' would be flooded. Belzoni would be under 22' of water; Indianola about 12, Carter about 31.

[TNBayouBengal]

Right that's what I heard and that the levee up by waterproof and St Joe will only hold to 63. The schools plan is to get out a week early and if we do get a mandatory evacuation we are taking all students to Harrisonburg by bus. We have to ride the bus too

I heard today that the levees in Tensas will be able to handle it. I have always heard the one of weakest spots in the 5th levee district was at Davis Landing near Newellton, but they aren't having any sand boil problems there yet.

The two places I heard that are "iffy" right now are Lake Providence and Deer Park. And if I understood correctly, I heard they might even have a "controlled break" at the Deer Park levee in the near future. I would not want to be in Monterrey if that happens.

[marshman]

Gauge 0 at greenville is 74.92' above sea level. At 60 feet on the gauge, everything under 134.92' would be flooded. Belzoni would be under 22' of water; Indianola about 12, Carter about 31.

Thanks Wingman. Thats more what I was looking for. I guess I should have phrased my question better. So basically where i'm at at 116ft MSL there would be about 18ft of water?

[Caller1]

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...
- Mark Twain in Eruption

[Wingman]

I saw 7 trackhoes today working on Simmons' catfish ponds. Raising the outside levees. Dirt buckets across the road building a levee around the plant and trackhoes building levees around houses across the lake. Eighteen wheeler trailers backed up to many 6 digit houses built too low for even a normal flood. People moving out and taking all of their jet skis, boats, atvs, etc with them.

Then just down the road in an old, green, cypress house was an elderly black couple sitting on the porch looking across the rising Wolf Lake, enjoying the sunshine. Their house is probably the only one that won't get water as it is on a knoll probably 2 feet higher than the high lakeside ridge they live on. I stopped and talked to them and their concern was the road going under.

There is some benefit to the simple life.

[MrGoodtime]

I saw 7 trackhoes today working on Simmons' catfish ponds. Raising the outside levees. Dirt buckets across the road building a levee around the plant and trackhoes building levees around houses across the lake. Eighteen wheeler trailers backed up to many 6 digit houses built too low for even a normal flood. People moving out and taking all of their jet skis, boats, atvs, etc with them.

Then just down the road in an old, green, cypress house was an elderly black couple sitting on the porch looking across the rising Wolf Lake, enjoying the sunshine. Their house is probably the only one that won't get water as it is on a knoll probably 2 feet higher than the high lakeside ridge they live on. I stopped and talked to them and their concern was the road going under.

There is some benefit to the simple life.

Bet they have seen the water and people come and go before.

[mfalkner]

Rob,
Some days I wish I had your job. Not many, mind you, but some days...

[jtdumallard]

Then just down the road in an old, green, cypress house was an elderly black couple sitting on the porch looking across the rising Wolf Lake, enjoying the sunshine. Their house is probably the only one that won't get water as it is on a knoll probably 2 feet higher than the high lakeside ridge they live on. I stopped and talked to them and their concern was the road going under.

There is some benefit to the simple life.

you come down that way saturday and you will see all of us working. planing on running 2 dump trucks all day and building a levee all the way around the house.

[DoublePslayer]

I flew in from Houston this morning, and took some high altitude pics with my phone that I will try to post up later. There's a lot of water out there boys!

[YazooValley]

Gauge 0 at greenville is 74.92' above sea level. At 60 feet on the gauge, everything under 134.92' would be flooded. Belzoni would be under 22' of water; Indianola about 12, Carter about 31.

But wouldn't the level be lower as the water was able to spread out instead of being constrained inside the levees?

[Blackduck]

http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/flood2011 ... od2011.pdf

pic of predicted flooding

[dukmisr2005]

I saw 7 trackhoes today working on Simmons' catfish ponds. Raising the outside levees. Dirt buckets across the road building a levee around the plant and trackhoes building levees around houses across the lake. Eighteen wheeler trailers backed up to many 6 digit houses built too low for even a normal flood. People moving out and taking all of their jet skis, boats, atvs, etc with them.



There is some benefit to the simple life.

Bubba definitely has the equip to do that.. didn't he do a bunch of COE work a few years ago on the levees??