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What About The Oil Spill on the Mississippi?
I've found it hard to find current coverage of the spill in the media but this is a great up-to-date photos and links.
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Demand Stronger Bridges
Why is there no rush to fix structurally unsound bridges? The American leadership needs to get with the program.
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LA Oil Spill
420,000. That's how many gallons of industrial fuel spilled into the Mississippi River outside of New Orleans.
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Mississippi River Oil Spill - Traffic Stops on River
Workers are attempting to contain fuel oil after a ship hit an oil barge spilling barrels of fuel oil in the Mississippi River. Isn't this just one more argument for clean alternative energy? Workers are attempting to contain fuel oil after a ship hit an oil barge spilling barrels of fuel oil in the Mississippi River. Isn�... more
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400,000 gallon oil spill on the Mississippi river
400,000 gallons of industrial fuel oil dumped into the Miss. River. An 80 mile stretch has been contaminated, and is flowing into the gulf. Citizens are being told to conserve water as many get their water from the river. This could end up as another ecological disaster for the already suffering Gulf Coast region around New Orleans.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/... 400,000 gallons of industrial fuel oil dumped into the Miss. River. An 80 mile stretch has been contaminated, and is flowing into the ... more -
Mississippi River levee breaks
The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of a levee near Meyer, Illinois, on Wednesday, adding to misery for flood-weary residents.
In an effort to protect businesses, water supplies and valuable farmland, volunteers and national guard troops are helping to reinforce or raise levees on both sides of the Mississippi River. The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of a levee near Meyer, Illinois, on Wednesday, adding to misery for flood-weary residen... more -
Mississippi levee buckles under rising waters
Rising waters burst through an overtaxed levee on the Mississippi River Tuesday, sending gushing torrents into an Illinois town as the sodden US midwest reels from days of epic flooding.
The levee break left Highway 34 at Gulfport, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, under water prompting officials to close a bridge to the neighboring town of Burlington and creating havoc for commuters.
News reports said a flash flood warning was in effect Tuesday in Henderson County, Illinois as a result of surging waters from the levee break.
More than 1,000 Illinois National Guard troops were working alongside hundreds of inmates from the state's prisons to shore up levees throughout the state, a spokeswoman with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency told CNN.
"We were very, very disappointed that this levee broke today," said emergency official Patti Thompson, adding the imposing Mississippi, "is a very powerful river and it can be hard to harness" even in drier times, let alone during record flooding.
Officials had anticipated that the levees could be a weak point and had sought to shore them up with sand bags, she said, adding: "We have been focusing quite a bit on all of these levees."
President George W. Bush vowed Tuesday to help flood-ravaged states get back on their feet, and was due to tour neighboring devastated Iowa on Thursday.
"I fully understand people are upset when they lose their home. A person's home is their most valued possession," Bush said, adding he had been briefed by administration officials on the disaster.
"We want to work with state and local folks to have a clear strategy to help people find -- get back into a place that -- where they can live," the president said, adding that housing and fresh water were the top priorities.
Bush, who was sharply criticized for the administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, is to visit Iowa with a federal disaster response team.
"I'm going to take our team down to meet with the folks in Iowa," he said, adding, "unfortunately I've been to too many disasters as president."
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This is definitely something we need to watch as the Mississippi River contiues to crest. The billions of dollars in damage to crops and land will now only make food prices rise even more than they already are. And while no one has yet mentioned this as a repercussion of global warming, this is exactly what scientists predicted for this region in regards to climate change. However, this government doesn't want to do anything about that or anything to spend our money to shore up infrastructure here.They are too busy waging oil wars in the Middle East and looking for more ways to satisfy their oil addiction while the heartland of this country is under water with much of the rest of it thirsting for it. Rising waters burst through an overtaxed levee on the Mississippi River Tuesday, sending gushing torrents into an Illinois town as the... more -
Thumbs Up America
Thumbs Up America - season 1 : episode1
See the good, the bad, and the ugly in America via David Choe and Harry Kim's coast to coast journey (20 episodes) of hitch hiking, freight jumping, even rafting the Mississippi.
Raw and pure. Not the most 'PC', but clearly heartfelt.
An addictive watch. Thumbs Up America - season 1 : episode1 ... more -
Bridge Collapse
Divers searched the Mississippi River on Thursday for more bodies entombed in cars trapped beneath the twisted steel and concrete slabs of a collapsed bridge. As many as 30 people were missing as the effort shifted from rescue to recovery. Divers searched the Mississippi River on Thursday for more bodies entombed in cars trapped beneath the twisted steel and concrete slab... more
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