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Old 05-02-2011, 01:17 PM
 
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Default Now A Second Levee Blow Out !

Greetings From New Orleans ,
I have just received word that the Army Corps Of Engineers is now planning a second levee blow out ! Due to the continuos rain and fast rising flood waters that is now expected to exceed the flood of 1927 , the powers that be in the Corps Of Engineers has decided that after they blow out the levee at Byrds Point , the Corps fleet will go down to Island 8 and blow out yet another section of levee .
I was also told that the river is now over 61 feet in Cairo and due to the legal wrangling in the court system , the Corps is now behind schedule to blow out the first section of levee at Byrds Point !
I was also told that as I type this posting , the explosives are being pumped into the designated levee system at Byrds Point and it is expected to be detonated and blown out some time today ! Furthermore , there is a Corps Of Engineers helicopter circling the area as a security precaution and that it will also record this event as it unfolds !
Today history is being made and more latter as the facts come in !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
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