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I may be out of the loop on this but someone today asked me if I knew anything about a weak spot at Friars Point. Whats the word on that

Think the levees from Memphis to Greenville are some of the highest/strongest of the entire river system. May be a sandblow or something that gives them concern. Have not heard anything bad in terms of the levees north of Greenville.

Don't know anything about a weak spot but I spent the late afternoon riding the Washington county levee south of greenville. No joy riding or fishing from levee at this point in time, folks. We are sending everybody off of it that doesn't have an important reason to be on it. The levee for the most part is not a public road and the signs at the cattle gaps say that. Levee looks good from what I saw of it.

Wingman wrote:Don't know anything about a weak spot but I spent the late afternoon riding the Washington county levee south of greenville. No joy riding or fishing from levee at this point in time, folks. We are sending everybody off of it that doesn't have an important reason to be on it. The levee for the most part is not a public road and the signs at the cattle gaps say that. Levee looks good from what I saw of it.

You need to come just north of greenville and ride. They are riding and fishing all during the day. We have two miles up there and see people on it that have no business riding the levee. They need to take the signs down and sell them at the scrapyard. They damn sure aren't making sure people obey them.

Ryano wrote:

Wingman wrote:Don't know anything about a weak spot but I spent the late afternoon riding the Washington county levee south of greenville. No joy riding or fishing from levee at this point in time, folks. We are sending everybody off of it that doesn't have an important reason to be on it. The levee for the most part is not a public road and the signs at the cattle gaps say that. Levee looks good from what I saw of it.

You need to come just north of greenville and ride. They are riding and fishing all during the day. We have two miles up there and see people on it that have no business riding the levee. They need to take the signs down and sell them at the scrapyard. They damn sure aren't making sure people obey them.

I'll head that way tomorrow. Everybody was nice today; just told them that we were doing everything possible to protect that levee or else we were all gonna be floating.

I have heard some talk of this, scary stuff. Hope it is not true.

There is another levee at friars point west of the main levee. The levee board will be working on it.

You'll start hearing all kind of stuff in the next 2 weeks. Be cautious what you believe as fact because there will be tons of rumors going around.

3spop wrote:There is another levee at friars point west of the main levee. The coe is back there attempting to raise it 4'.

That's PROBABLY what you were hearing about.

Bullet wrote:You'll start hearing all kind of stuff in the next 2 weeks. Be cautious what you believe as fact because there will be tons of rumors going around.

yeah i wasnt sure if it even was a slight bit of truth to it but figured I would ask.

I would not believe anything unless is came from an official source...in this case the Levee Board. If there was a decent chance that there would be a levee breach, they would be getting people out with a mandatory evac as we speak.

mandatory evac for all people living behind the levee. Hope looters don't show up.

Wingman, will they be patrolling the lake to keep folks from coming to the houses by lake. people from other states I mean.

tombstone wrote:mandatory evac for all people living behind the levee. Hope looters don't show up.

Wingman, will they be patrolling the lake to keep folks from coming to the houses by lake. people from other states I mean.

Dang good idea but I haven't heard if we will be doing that or not. I drove over to Ferguson yesterday and all of the tow boats and barges are even with the top of the bank beside the levee. Usually there is about a 20 foot difference.

Shut our barge unloading down today. We sell fertilizer by the port in Gville and water level got our belt today, so no more unloading until it goes down, which looks like a while! At 60' it will go in our fert. bins and office will have about 2 ft in it. We are moving the heck out of some fertilizer today!!

Myth:
Weak spot on levee at Friars Point.
Truth:
There is no weak spot at Friars Point-
52.5ft prediction at the Helena gage equates to around 188.5 ft at Friars Point. The top of the mainline levee is above 202 ft.
There is a private levee on the west side that protects farmland. The COE is NOT doing any work to protect a private levee on the bature side of the mainline Mississippi levee.

I have heard so many wild stories flying around since last Thursday that are false!
Rumors scare people and it raises the anxiety level for all who are uniformed or misinformed. Misinformation will be freely spread over the next month so please.................if it concerns a federal levee system (Mainline Mississippi, Coldwater, Yazoo Backwater, etc.) take the information with a grain of salt unless it is issued by USACE (Memphis District/Vicksburg District/Mississippi Valley Division) or the Yazoo-Ms Delta Levee Board in Clarksdale or the Mississippi Levee Board in Greenville.
In the upper 3 counties (Desoto,Tunica,Coahoma) this is only a 50 yr storm event(as predicted). We have passed big events in the past so calm down, this ain't our first rodeo!
My 2 cents cause i'm fighting this crap everyday!
Have a nice day