Cape Girardeau Stays Dry Because Walls Work
RUSH: Where I grew up in Missouri, right on the Mississippi River, a town called Cape Girardeau, it is flooding. The Mississippi River is near an all-time high. However, the town's dry. Do you know why the town's dry? They have a wall that is giant flood wall that protects the entire downtown area of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and more than just the downtown area. I saw pictures of how high the wall is. I, in fact, am featured on that wall. Famous Missourians are caricatured on that wall.
It's another example of how walls work.
They built a flood wall long time ago in Cape Girardeau to prevent flooding. You know what? It works. The water, it's try to get in there. The water's into downtown and ruining and destroying everything. But the wall is in the way, and there's not a door in the wall, and there's no way for the water to seep through, and right now the river (I'm guessing from the photos) is a number of feet below the top of the wall. It could crest the wall except the river right now is starting to decline. If that wall weren't there, I shudder to think how much of the town would be ruined or severely damaged right now.
So walls work.
It's another shining example of it.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/mississippi-rolling-toward-historic-high-in-cape-girardeau/article_e5f044c3-55da-5d9e-9c6f-6087395cbdeb.html
RUSH: Where I grew up in Missouri, right on the Mississippi River, a town called Cape Girardeau, it is flooding. The Mississippi River is near an all-time high. However, the town's dry. Do you know why the town's dry? They have a wall that is giant flood wall that protects the entire downtown area of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and more than just the downtown area. I saw pictures of how high the wall is. I, in fact, am featured on that wall. Famous Missourians are caricatured on that wall.
It's another example of how walls work.
They built a flood wall long time ago in Cape Girardeau to prevent flooding. You know what? It works. The water, it's try to get in there. The water's into downtown and ruining and destroying everything. But the wall is in the way, and there's not a door in the wall, and there's no way for the water to seep through, and right now the river (I'm guessing from the photos) is a number of feet below the top of the wall. It could crest the wall except the river right now is starting to decline. If that wall weren't there, I shudder to think how much of the town would be ruined or severely damaged right now.
So walls work.
It's another shining example of it.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/mississippi-rolling-toward-historic-high-in-cape-girardeau/article_e5f044c3-55da-5d9e-9c6f-6087395cbdeb.html