Logistic regression analysis assessed site characteristics at levee-failure locations identified in a database of historical levee failures along 685 km of the Middle and Lower Mississippi River (MMR and LMR).
"The Corps comes in with a community-by-community project with measures like levees, and it looks at that levee; it doesn't look at the whole Mississippi as a system.
When House arrived at the levee, without his bulldozer, about twenty farmers and their relatives had gathered at Norman Brockmeyer's farm there, including Ken Crim; his aunt, Betty, his son, Eric, and his uncle, Harold Robbins.
House, Crim, and the others at the levee couldn't help feeling a little euphoric.
On May 3, Mr. Petty, 50, called Mr. Saul, 36, to take a look at the levee.
During the day, the officers drive around keeping an eye on activity at the levee and watching for looters.
Al Weigel, Fargo's public works director, said his employees, who had been operating pumps at the levee wall for days, were shifted to plowing duty on Monday.
Instead they played pinball in the game room, enjoyed cocktails and a buffet dinner and then assembled in the living room — some on the floor, some on Hef's couch, their places as precisely allocated as the chairs at a levee of the Sun King — for a showing of that evening's film.
To get here from Vicksburg, they now take a circuitous tour of the Mississippi Delta, driving past sprawling cotton fields and through tiny hamlets like Midnight and Onward, past sparkling lakes that did not exist a week ago and isolated farmer's cottages that may not exist next week if something goes wrong at the levee.
We can't remember the last time they actually played a show, so he usually spends his time tending bar at the Levee and falling off his bike which he only rides drunk.
