This video from the USACE shows what happened and what might have happened had the three floodways not been utilized.
One wag noted that the video 'reeks with hubris' [see today's quote].
Here is a link to the video, where you can also find other related videos.
"Barry [John Barry, author of Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America] is echoing the fears of river hydrologists who have been predicting this catastrophe since the 1960s. The problem, as they view it, is straightforward. Spilling tens of millions of acre feet of water from dams on the upper Missouri (in years of heavy runoff) into a swollen Mississippi will turn the delta into a small ocean and threaten major urban centers on the lower Mississippi." -- Paul VanDevelder, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, 25 May 2o11
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