When the Army Corps of Engineers decided to blow up a levee to flood a couple hundred sq miles of Missouri farmland, to, as so many put it, "save Cairo IL", my hackles got raised. Really? A town of 3000, formerly of 15000 when the Flood Control Act of 1928 was enacted after the historic 1927 flood, that's what all of this is about? Um, no. That
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