Flooding, flooding everywhere!

[TheDreamMaster]

So I live in a town currently in the middle of several places of large flooding. Anyone watching the news may have heard of Cairo Illinois on the news. I'm about 45 mintues from there, and things keep looking worse. Tonight they blew a 2 mile wide hole in the levy in Cairo, and I felt and heard it here it was such a big blast. Anyone else having flood troubles?

 

[C. Lee]

You're down in Paducah huh.....I'm up by Lexington.....luckily we're only having minor problems with flooding at the moment here.

 

[Gotham Knight]

No flooding where I am.

 

[Duke]

That sucks dude. Its dry as a bone down here....

 

[BizarroAids]

Yeah, we are getting it as well. It's suppose to get higher here, and evacuation plans are in affect.

Took this earlier.

 

[Gotham Knight]

If you don't mind me asking, who are the two people in the photo?

 

[BizarroAids]

Me and a co-worker.

 

[Gotham Knight]

Me and a co-worker.

You're the one on the right?

 

[BizarroAids]

Yeah.

That building is about 200 yards from the Mississippi River. It's going to flood out work before it hits our town.

 

[Alistair]

Ouch! That sucks! If makes ya feel any better, we are in a drought, and it's been 100 some days of any form of precipitation. =/ I guess that's what ya get for living in the desert.

The only thing that was scary was Ft. Hood had a Abrams tank exercise and for this past week it caused a major wild fire (It's been happen every year now for past 3 from training!), got close to us it was peaking the Organ Mountains. So, I'll gladly take some of that flooding instead of these 40+ Winds.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Sorry if my inital post seemed a tad like I was just rambling. I've been meaning to make this thread for a few days, and I was tired from working all day/finishing my research paper for my final. It is not bad here in most areas, it's creeping in from Illinois in some places, and our Kroger's closest to the river is now under water, but everything else is holding well. Our flood wall is fine, though it seems it may be leaking under to some extent. C Lee, did you guy get any effects from them blowing that levee out in Cairo? It was like a damn earthquake here, and we are 45 minutes from them at least. I guess its helping so far, but only time will tell.

 

[BizarroAids]

We felt it down in Caruthersville. Right now ours is up to 46 ft, and if it hits 50 we will have a mandatory evacuation.

 

[C. Lee]

Sorry if my inital post seemed a tad like I was just rambling. I've been meaning to make this thread for a few days, and I was tired from working all day/finishing my research paper for my final. It is not bad here in most areas, it's creeping in from Illinois in some places, and our Kroger's closest to the river is now under water, but everything else is holding well. Our flood wall is fine, though it seems it may be leaking under to some extent. C Lee, did you guy get any effects from them blowing that levee out in Cairo? It was like a damn earthquake here, and we are 45 minutes from them at least. I guess its helping so far, but only time will tell.

Where I live is a 4 and a half hour drive from Paducah...so the levee didn't effect us at all. We had about 4 inches of rain yesterday, so we're starting to get some flooded roads in our area now.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Where I live is a 4 and a half hour drive from Paducah...so the levee didn't effect us at all. We had about 4 inches of rain yesterday, so we're starting to get some flooded roads in our area now.

I figured you didn't, but people were claiming they felt it in Georgia, or some effect (earthquake maybe, not really sure) from the blast. So I just wondered.