Reply #2: Drove The Chevy To The Levee

[KharmaTrain]

I've driven down the river road...many of those levees are decades old...some are more than a century old...it's not surprising that we're seeing such stress on the system. It's even moreso as dams and other obstructions on the river (bridges, dams) have increased the river's flow when it gets "fat".

It appears many of these levees are in open farm areas...low lands that have been flooded many times and will benefit from this flood as it has in the past making those lands around the river highly productive. The diversion also is saving some of the towns along the river from worse flooding. It's bad and we'll be paying for it in higher costs (especially food) this fall...but in the end, the flooding on the Misssissippi will leave short-term scars, but in the long-term the area will bounce back quickly.