Backwater Levy News Today

The problem is now, the water has gone completely over that roadway. we road on that roadway just two days ago. now it looks like its a lake that is out there. thats disrupting commercial traffic. its also disrupting emergency traffic. and thats the problem for the town of eagle lake. which is kind of like what we saw there in david mattinglys spot, in that you have a community of well over a thousand people that have been totally evacuated. the area is completely isolated with one exception, th...

show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. thats the edge of the river. its rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississipp...