A year ago I was flooded out in NH, my trailer was the one closest the river in the center of the picture. One of the reasons we got flooded out, was the Corp of Engineers opened up the Pittsfield Dam, so that dam would not give way. I don't regret the action taken by the Engineers, they had little choice, but to open the dam.
The problem was and is the same on the Mississippi River, that there is no place for the water to go. If the Pittsfield Dam had not been there or all those levees were not holding the Mississippi in it's banks, the water would have had someplace to go. So you say that is crazy, all those homes and cities would be ruined, well isn't it high time to respect Mother Nature and move those homes and cities away from the edge of the water onto higher ground. Without the levees in place the water would have never come as high as it is doing.
After everything is said and done, everyone is going to want to rebuild in the same location and cry out for stronger and bigger levees. When they should be looking at the river and asking how can we give the river more room, so when the water is high, it has a place to go. What is needed is to remove some or all of those levees and move the homes and cities onto higher ground, so then both the river and the people can live in peaceful coexistence.
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