Mayor orders evacuation of flood-threatened Illinois city

Viva_La_Revolution

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Sat Apr-30-11 10:19 PM
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Mayor orders evacuation of flood-threatened Illinois city

Source: usa today

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) � The mayor of a small southern Illinois city threatened by two swollen rivers has ordered all residents to leave by midnight because a lot of river water is bubbling up from the ground at a spot behind a levee.

Cairo Mayor Judson Childs issued the mandatory evacuation order late Saturday afternoon after officials with the Army Corps of Engineers and the city determined that the sand boil near the levee had grown dangerously large.

Sand boils are spots where high-pressure water pushes under flood walls and levees and wells up through the soil behind them. They're a potential sign of trouble.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/floods/2011-04-30-illinois-flood-threat_n.htm

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midnight

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Sat Apr-30-11 10:34 PM
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1. K&R I just received an invite for a graduation from University Illinois

Urbana Champaign... Those poor people what a mess...

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Rincewind

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Sun May-01-11 12:07 AM
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6. As one of those

Edited on Sun May-01-11 12:07 AM by Rincewind

poor people in Urbana- Champaign, I can tell you that we are fine. Cairo, where they are having the flooding, is about 220 miles South of here. It's right on the Southern most tip of Illinois, just over the river from Kentucky.

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Ex Lurker

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Sun May-01-11 12:44 AM
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7. IIRC, it's further south than Richmond

in the days of segregation, a lot of African Americans from Jim Crow states went to SIU-Carbondale because it was the southernmost "northern" school.

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Bobbie47

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Sat Apr-30-11 10:56 PM
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2. I heard yesterday

they were going to break a levy to save the town. If they broke the levy 200 homes and farm land would be flooded, but the town would be saved. Guess the home owners took them back to court again.

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Bobbie47

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Sat Apr-30-11 10:57 PM
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3. I heard yesterday

they were going to break a levy to save the town. If they broke the levy 200 homes and farm land would be flooded, but the town would be saved. Guess the home owners took them back to court again.

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Ex Lurker

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Sat Apr-30-11 11:58 PM
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5. if the town's levee is failing it may be too late nt

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Bobbie47

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Sun May-01-11 04:21 AM
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8. It has

been leaking most of the week so it may be to late to try to break it open.

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Historic NY

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Sat Apr-30-11 11:04 PM
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4. A friend in Emergency Management around Metropolis Il.has heavy flooding...

he is busy.

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Bobbie47

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Sun May-01-11 05:14 AM
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9. Just heard on the news

the Corp is still deciding if they are going to blow the levy up.

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madrchsod

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Sun May-01-11 01:09 PM
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10. time to move the town to higher ground....

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