Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 I love thunderSHOWERS but I can do without thunderSTORMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tired Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 It has been raining since last night here in the Baltimore, Md region. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 I've noticed large sections of the country have received great deals of rain lately and there is widespread flooding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IM4given Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 Having grown up in the Mississippi River Bottoms, I can really relate to all that flooding! [tube]os8vG6jL244[/tube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 You betcha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IM4given Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 I remember back in 1973 we were living in Pulaski County Illinois during the really big flood! The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers both flooded their banks and all of the tributaries. We lived next to Cash Creek and the water flooded out our whole county for miles and miles around! We just headed for relatives houses who lived on higher ground than we did. The old folks said it was as bad as the 1937 flood! That was how we landed ourselves in Western Kentucky getting away from the floodwaters. There wasn't any Red Cross or FEMA or anything like that back in those days. I remember them taking school children out of classes to go help fill sandbags so that they could be used to build a flood wall stacked on top of the leveees and the levees breeched in several places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 5dumplings@home Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 In 1993, my parents moved me out here to Oregon from Indiana. My parents just got over the St. Louis bridge over the Mississippi R. and they closed the bridge from the flooding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IM4given Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 1992 was a bad year too - about every five years or so you can expect some really bad flooding along the Mississippi. I was born in Cairo Illinois, which is actually built below sea level, and the levees are the only thing that keeps the whole town from going under. I have seen the Mississippi River so low that you could walk across it from the Kentucky to the Illinois side, and I have seen it so flooded that it looked like one mighty big ocean. I remember the water coming up the road and under our house. We sat on the porch with fishing poles and fished the catfish out from under the front steps. We grilled them up and they were surely tasty! They were all nice and fat from eating the soybean crops that were under water too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 The flood of '69 knocked some levees out, forcing folks to have to drive an extra hundred miles or so to get to the next bridge and then drive on to where they were headed. And the flood of '93 really caused problems too, though the levees held that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madeline Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 [marquee]I WIN!!! [/marquee] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 Calm down Madeline! This is a marathon, not a sprint, the race isn't over yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 5dumplings@home Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 (She's still young, John. You have to forgive her moments of insanity.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IM4given Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 Do you think the media distorts and exaggerates things some times?http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseacti ... eoid=79461 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators HappyChristian Posted August 22, 2007 Administrators Share Posted August 22, 2007 Um, yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted August 22, 2007 Members Share Posted August 22, 2007 Do you think the media distorts and exaggerates things some times?http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseacti ... eoid=79461 All you have to do is aske them and they'll tell you they are objective and only report what's there. :roll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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