In a message dated 6/5/01 2:00:22 AM !!!First Boot!!!, wyly1@juno.com writes: << During the recent flood on Miss. one local reporter said on TV that there was a time in the past that rice and cotton farmers watched each other across the River- Arrk. to Miss and Tenn. as some had been of sending bombs across the River ina flood to blow a hole in the opposite levee to save their own fields. Naw, Not in America??? >> Everytime I think I have seen or heard it all, something else comes along. Why not in America? Betty.
In flood waters, by the time the bomb reached the the opposite side-It would have been in the gulf of Mexico. Must have been carpetbaggers thinking that one up. In 1993 I was witness to the Platte and Mo. rivers. I taped 3 videos. We fought the Platte for a month, and with the Mighty Mo. only a mile or so away, and with the Mississippi overrunning it's banks, there isn't a single person that describe it accurately until you have lived thru it. We sandbagged day and night. I would go to the river, turn my car around, and always trying to keep it only a few seconds away,motor always running, I taped how the water kept rising until it was at the top of the sandbags. Yes it sounds dangerous and it was, but think of the disasters our families faced each day, just to settle this great land. How they lost family and friends!! BMoss69893@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/5/01 2:00:22 AM !!!First Boot!!!, wyly1@juno.com writes: > > << During the recent flood on Miss. one local reporter said on TV that there > was a time in the past that rice and cotton farmers watched each other > across the River- Arrk. to Miss and Tenn. as some had been of sending > bombs across the River ina flood to blow a hole in the opposite levee to > save their own fields. Naw, Not in America??? >> > > Everytime I think I have seen or heard it all, something else comes along. > Why not in America? Betty. > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com