All images taken April 27th 2011
Whitely Park from McDonald's parking lot.
Whitely Park
Whitely Park playground
See the Cardinal & Robin in the bottom left?
Whitely Park in south Poplar Bluff, Missouri
taken day before the water started receding.
taken just before 8am & it was chilly outside... this girl is in the water...
rowing... with a board... on an inflatable raft of some kind... in flood water...
You wouldn't catch me in that water... I'm just sayin' =0
Southeast Missouri is still under flood warnings & Lake Wappapello is still closed...
Has anyone heard about the flooding in Cairo, Illinois & that an Il. judge
has passed a proposal to blow up several sections of the
Mississippi River levee & flood 160,000 acres
in Missouri to keep Cairo from flooding?
If so, what are your thoughts?
13 Charmers Say?:
i'm hoping it was a 'once in a lifetime' experience for the girl. hoping it never floods like that again for you all.
I hope this has all turned around toward "normal" by this weekend. I can't imagine rowing with a board in the middle of the flood... I hope she has a good reason. It would be hard to imagine what was in the judge's mind that permitted him to let flooding in one state be dumped on another!
That first image is beautiful. So sorry it's due to such flooding!
I wouldn't be caught dead in there either...Wonderful photos Tricia.
I can't imagine flooding 160,000 acres without it affecting more people...Hmmm.
Hiya Tricia,
My first (callous) thought was:
Am I glad we live on a hill.
They often seem to sacrifice some people's safety for 'the greater good' (?).
Do they have dedicated flood planes?
They call them 'water meadows' in our Thames valley area. Trouble is, many of those are now built on.
Your photos are beautiful. But you don't want this to last.
What a royal mess! I hope you are staying high and dry and that all of your loved ones are safe.
Very impressive. I know very little about removing levees but I am opposed to them in principle. We cannot tame the rivers and levees give a false sense of security. Like sea walls on the oceans, levees simply make it worse for the others not so protected. The water WILL go somewhere.
I'm always amazed at the folks who get into that kind of water.
We are really in a state of imbalance, aren't we. So much water in your area, so much lacking in others. Probably not unusual over millenniums, but I wonder just how much our species has to do with it.
Your pics are very nice. How did you make the first on. It´s so different. wow. lg Tina
I hope they don't have to blow the levee. Maybe it won't come to that. :(
It is alot of water though.
My goodness! Amazing to think how life-giving and devastating water can be. I don't know the whole story about blowing up the levee, but that can't be good for the people of Missouri. :/ Hope wisdom prevails in that situation.
Oh, my, this does not look at all happy. We have water all around us, too, but we are at sea. :\
Wow, that's a lot of flooding! Hope it all clears up soon for you!
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