As if the Brookport Bridge wasn't scary enough already, ...
If the rain doesn't let up and the any-minute-now blast of the levee at Cairo, Ill., doesn't do enough good, the Kentucky bureau might hide under the Twitter desk. Here's how veteran meteorologist Lew Jetton sums it up: "Please pray.This is a desperate move n a desperate, yet historical time. Levee will be detonated shortly.Pray for those affected & it works." KFVS is broadcasting the blast live.
Two of the KHSAA hall-of-fame choices have yet to accept their inductions; I wonder what the story is there.
Good jobs news from Lexington, Lexington again and Shelbyville--Bowling Green, too, it appears.
Bad bowling news from Leitchfield.
Sen. McConnell, who has said his "single most important" job is to ensure the president loses re-election, jumps on the bandwagon.
Blasted.
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling from talking to dad that this levee blowing story has been pretty big in the news there. What sense do you have Eric? Are people more sympathetic to the farmers or the town of Cairo?
ReplyDeleteThere's the spectrum of talk that you would imagine ... some people say this is one group of people being favored over another group of people; others say that it is an attempt to blunt the damage. No one is saying that this will definitively achieve the results they're hoping for--even after the two additional planned blasts. But, yes, it's huge news--bigger on KFVS, for example, than the Bin Laden killing.
ReplyDeleteHere's a bit of what you're looking for.
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