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on them quickly, but right now, everything is holding and working the way it should be in spite of scenes like this, memphis making out a whole lot better than it did in the 1930s. yeah, and in that shot a moment ago, you can see the people walking up behind you and i was reading that it is a tourist attraction for people to just see the places where the river is now three miles wide, but in terms of the people who are not sticking around and don t want to see the river and have to get out of town and out of their homes, what are you hearing in terms of evacuations in memphis? well, the people who have been affected, the property that has been affected and we are talking about thousands and the people who have had to leave their homes because they are inundated, we are talking hundreds. now, at this point though, we are looking at the broader implications of this, and the people whose businesses may be affected and the people whose travel plans impacted and that could be in the tho
as i m bringing chad meyers in, he has explained to me, that we know that, look, the mississippi river is not the cleanest place in the world, and pesticides, et cetera, and i have been to pontchartrain and covered the tarballs back when that was an issue, right, and people love the pontchartrain and swim in pontchartrain, and how will this affect people s summers? well, every time the spillway is opened, you do have flows from the river obviously that go through there and that carries a lot more sedimentn that you wil get nach turally that runs off the pontchartrain, so you will have a significant change as you get closer to the outlets into the mississippi gulf that will impact the solemnity, and you will have a change of the brakish water to the normal
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right now, the downtown area is high and dry, but what we re seeing is the tributaries on the mississippi. they can t empty their water into this river anymore because it is so high. so those rivers have been backing up, causing flooding in different parts around memphis, some isolated areas. it has been covering some roads, it has been getting to some neighborhoods. we have seen a couple of trailer parks almost completely inundated and at this point, we got a little over 300 people in shelters and they re probably going to be there for a little while, brooke, because it only took days for this water to come into memphis. it will take weeks for it to go out. now, you mentioned before there is this huge barbecue festival, right? you think of memphis, barbecue, beale street. how close is that water encroached upon those areas and what are they doing about the huge festival coming into town? well, may is a huge tourism time for memphis. and that barbecue festival is