Sunday, May 1, 2011

New record at Cairo

Now it's official, just as everyone expected. At 2 a.m. today the Ohio River at Cairo surpassed the flood of 1937 to become the highest on record there. It's expected to rise another seven-tenths of a foot before cresting.

Meanwhile, Missouri's fight to prevent the Corps from blowing a hole and flooding farmland in that state is going to the Supreme Court and police in Cairo do not know how many people refuse to obey an order to evacuate the town.

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