Monday, May 9, 2011

Mississippi River

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Mississippi River: this article related Mississippi that Forecasts appearance that the Mississippi River to crest Monday nighttime at the hour of Memphis before than expected, but the mayor says city ready. AC Wharton Mayor said that despite the tight deadlines, he's confident that measures such warnings of door to door prepared the city. To the south, the rise of the Mississippi River the Army Corps of Engineers to start opening the valves to an onslaught of New Orleans to relieve the pressure of rising water in the dams in the area. Forecaster Joe Lowery of the internal Weather Service in Memphis said it appears the river started to equalize and could peak as early as Monday evening, at or near forty-eight feet. Forecasters had predicted would come up Tuesday. Memphis residents have abandoned lower house for days as dangerous river threatened outbreak of Crest just under the record 48.7 feet, set by a devastating flood in 1937. The swollen river flooded homes in Memphis and threatens to consume much more, but its growth has been slow as some have come to view as spectators. The Mississippi River have already reached record levels in some upstream areas, with heavy rains and melting snow. He spared Kentucky and Tennessee, northwest, while floods and no deaths were reported, but a few low-lying villages and farmland along the river were flooded. There's so much water in the tributaries that flow into Mississippi are also backed the creation of some of the worst flooding troubles so far. Downstream, Louisiana, workers outside the constraints of the first 28 gates in the hood Carré spillway opening the structure has 350 doors and the body has said it will follow the Mississippi river levels earlier deciding if nothing else is open. Fresh river water was diverted into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico. Officials warned residents that while it was open, residents can expect water 5.25 m deep in parts of 7 parishes. Corps has also requested that the authorization of the Mississippi River Commission to open the Morganza spillway north of Baton Rouge.
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