In a message dated 8/26/02 11:34:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< 2: I seem to recall that heavy flooding in the Mississippi / Missouri area led to a reversal of the "let's build a protective dike and thus move the problem down stream"-policy. Large areas (including whole villages) were essentially given up and left open for future flooding, thus taking the pressure off the river further down. Can anybody confirm this? - jacob braestrup >> I lived in Iowa during the last great flood there and while there was some talk of abandoning the dikes, there was also talk about building more of them. People tended to see all the water and want more dikes rather than less. David Levenstam
