Floodways are for floods.
Check out this NASA image from today and consider whether blowing up the Birds Point Levee might lower record flood elevations at places other than Cairo. Only one major outlet I know of, the Wall Street Journal, got the Birds Point story right today, by mentioning...
Birds Point myths, and shame on the New York Times
Late last night the Army Corps of Engineers (COE) blew a hole in the Birds Point levee breaking windows (according to NPR) in a building where people living in the Birds Point – New Madrid Floodway had gathered to commiserate. Press coverage is terrible. Today a New...
Spectacular NY Times fail on Birds Point.
Just as I finish a post on bad media coverage, the New York Times jumps in with a sad, example. Nothing against Mr. Bennett. But he knows about flooding. From the article: After growing up in the spillway,[sic, floodway] Mr. Allred left, working many jobs before...