{"id":14867,"date":"2011-05-02T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=14867"},"modified":"2011-05-02T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:08:01","slug":"saving-cairo-the-end-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2011\/saving-cairo-the-end-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Cairo: The end of days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; He then instructed them to fill the pipes with explosives, a process that will take about 20 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. Explosives! Cairo!  Believe it or not, this is an Illinois\/Missouri\/Kentucky weather\/politics issues. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been raining. A lot.  I think Andrew_KY (who lives in Ohio) has complained about it. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers have been rising and flood waters threaten to wipe the town of Cairo, Illinois off the map. If flood waters rise a tiny bit further, the Army Corp of Engineers are going to blow up a downstream levee, which will permit flood waters to spill over farmland in Missouri.  The location of the levee is marked with an &#8220;A&#8221; below, Cairo is just upstream:<br \/>\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Bird+Point+Levee&amp;aq=&amp;sll=37.004746,-89.176025&amp;sspn=0.824708,1.290894&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=Bird+Point+Levee&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=37.004746,-89.176025&amp;spn=0.824708,1.290894&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Bird+Point+Levee&amp;aq=&amp;sll=37.004746,-89.176025&amp;sspn=0.824708,1.290894&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=Bird+Point+Levee&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=37.004746,-89.176025&amp;spn=0.824708,1.290894\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the decision blow up one levee to safeguard the ones upstream is controversial. In particular, farmers in Missouri don&#8217;t like it. Lawsuits were filed: The SCOTUS ruling is that the Army Corp of engineers may blow up the Birds Point Levee if they judge this necessary. (My understanding is that blowing it up follows a plan established in the late 1920s. It&#8217;s been blown once before.)<\/p>\n<p>While looking for videos that might show people the level of flood waters, the condition of nearby cities etc. I found this.  It starts out somewhat neutral, but the point of view of the person making the video becomes very evident about 1\/2 through. If you enjoy anti-Obama rants, scroll to the middle.  Heck, if you don&#8217;t like them, you should scroll..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3-wES8D_UM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yep: Weather. Not climate.   The  New York Times story is a more neutral and does not intimate anything about conspiracy theories, the end of the world and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/02\/us\/02levee.html?pagewanted=2\">does not involve discussions of masonic symbols.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS. I hope Roy Spencer in tornado stricken Alabama is ok and gets the UAH anomaly out soon. Then I&#8217;ll get back on my regular temperature anomaly discussions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 10:06pm<\/b>: I saw a tweet that said the first blast went off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; He then instructed them to fill the pipes with explosives, a process that will take about 20 hours. Yep. Explosives! Cairo! Believe it or not, this is an Illinois\/Missouri\/Kentucky weather\/politics issues. It&#8217;s been raining. A lot. I think Andrew_KY (who lives in Ohio) has complained about it. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2011\/saving-cairo-the-end-of-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving Cairo: The end of days?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}