The Mississippi levels rose so high, highest ever and threatened to flood an Illinois town of Cairo about 200 miles south of St Louis. So, the only option was to blow up a levee on the Missouri side so the water would drain west and not east. They did it the other day. Hell, they probably were the ones who built the levee in the first place. I admire their work because it's action that is going to be the difference when the shit goes down.
I'm divided because I suspect that we don't need to do more to protect the climate...we need to do less. Less driving, less buying, less eating, less killing. However; there is a happy medium between living like the Cherokee Indian circa 1802, dying of typhus at 28 and living like the replicant Rick Deckard in Los Angeles circa 2019 Blade Runner, and that happy medium is going to include the army corp of engineers. When Earth is uninhabitable, it will the the USACE that colonize another planet. Give them a job and they will find a way to make it work. Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff and Gordon Gekko are TOTALLY WORTHLESS ASSHOLES compared to engineers in the corp. Nothing will move without engineers and machinists but the way things are going nothing is going to live with them. So, something has gone haywire with the programming of the worker ant.
That sewing machine sound is my 1978 Vespa Ciao running. The tug is going south. I watched a Ken Burns doc. on Mark Twain. He was a riverboat pilot. He lived a ways north of here in Hannibal. That's about the only thing I like about Missouri.
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