Mississippi river endangers close by regions

When some regions are naturally surrounded by rivers, seas, and other water formations, there is a constant concern about disasters that are more likely to happen when a high amount of rain falls on that region. American states have been recently going through a series of worries as that is the case in some places.

Individual Treatment To Spread The News

The Mississippi and Louisiana states governors have already determined a state of emergency because of the flood coming from the Mississippi river. The prediction is that the flooding will reach the city of Memphis by late Monday (05/09), but the city’s government says that necessary precautions have already been taken.

Memphis Mayor, AC Wharton, said that they stopped by every house to notify civilians that there is a possible risk of flooding. As far as what can be done in relation to the Mississippi River reaching Memphis, the Mayor said “We don’t have as much time, but fortunately we’re ready for it.” As Katrina was a real example on how you cannot rely on televised warnings, the governor invested on the individual warning to each resident.

Recurrent Disasters

As for Louisiana specifically, Governor Bobby Jindal said “We’re going to do everything we can to prepare for the worst-case scenario while we still are hoping for the best case. It is going to be a slow-moving crest and what that means is it does put pressure on those levees.” The Katrina example is the hurricane that damaged the city of Louisiana in New Orleans, in 2005, and they are still recovering from that tragedy.

Now, the problem is that the region was focused on investing in safety against hurricane disasters, and not river flooding. The worst that can happen is the area in recovery gets damaged once again by another natural disaster and ends up losing most of what was invested since that episode.