US army engineers say they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in harm's way when the gates on the Morganza spillway are unlocked for the first time in 38 years.
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Opening the sluice will release a torrent that could submerge about 7,770 sq kms under as much as 7.6m of water, but that should take the pressure off the downstream levees protecting New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the numerous oil refineries and chemical plants along the lower reaches of the Mississippi.
I thought those levies were supposed to have been fixed after Katrina. Hmmmm? Rather than find out, we’ll just destroy thousands of other livelihoods.
....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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