Wednesday, May 4, 2011

"An explosion lights up the night sky as...

...the the US Army Corps of Engineers blows an 11,000-foot hole in the Birds Point levee in Mississippi County, Missouri. Army Corps of Engineers' Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh gave the order to blow a two-mile hole into the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, to flood 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri's Mississippi County but protect protect river towns in Illinois and Kentucky..."

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