ALERT Yazoo County, Mississippi Sheriff Warns Residents That Levees Are About to Break: "Evacuate IMMEDIATELY!"

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Strong storms moved into Mississippi on Tuesday evening leaving one person dead and another person injured.
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DEVELOPING: Yazoo County, Mississippi Sheriff Warns Residents That Levees Are About to Break: "Evacuate IMMEDIATELY!"​




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Strong storms moved into Mississippi on Tuesday evening leaving one person dead and another person injured.
Dozens of homes were damaged by the storms.
By Wednesday morning, the Yazoo County sheriff warned residents to evacuate immediately because the levees were about to break.
Neighborhoods are evacuating in Yazoo County, Mississippi, after the sheriff warned that the levees are about to break on a lake amid the ongoing storms. pic.twitter.com/259oLn865d
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) April 10, 2024
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Via WTVA:
Authorities in Yazoo County issued an emergency Wednesday morning about a levee break.
The following is part of an announcement from the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Office:
“If you or someone that you know lives in the Eastbrook subdivision on Highway 16 in Yazoo County you need to evacuate IMMEDIATELY!!! The levee is about to break on the lake and the houses will flood. Please get out ASAP!!!”
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Authorities in Yazoo County issued an emergency Wednesday morning about a levee break. Warning issued about levee break in Yazoo County
— WTVA 9 News (@wtva9news) April 10, 2024
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Meemur

Meemur

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Hfcomms said:
Fires and floods are the difficult parts of prepping. There isn't a whole lot you can do if either come knocking at your door.
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This is where a basic GO! bag helps. Load it with a passport, account numbers, and drop your wallet into it each night. Keep it behind the bedroom door on a hook or other very easy to access place. Keep it SMALL.

When the tornado siren sounds at 2 am, I grab the clothes and shoes left on the chair and my GO! bag, and walk to the basement, clicking my tongue at the cat, which means "treats," and she generally follows me down there (we practice periodically). A bag of treats is also kept near the stairs.

I would do the same basic steps if there were a fire, only I might toss my cat out of the window (ground floor) and go out there myself if there were a fire in the hall.

I know they say not to grab stuff, but the GO! bag fits around me like a cross-body purse, and I'd hate to try to re-start my life in 2024 without my driver's license, ATM card, checks, etc. That would be a nightmare!
 
packyderms_wife

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Neither here nor there.
Meemur said:
This is where a basic GO! bag helps. Load it with a passport, account numbers, and drop your wallet into it each night. Keep it behind the bedroom door on a hook or other very easy to access place. Keep it SMALL.

When the tornado siren sounds at 2 am, I grab the clothes and shoes left on the chair and my GO! bag, and walk to the basement, clicking my tongue at the cat, which means "treats," and she generally follows me down there (we practice periodically). A bag of treats is also kept near the stairs.

I would do the same basic steps if there were a fire, only I might toss my cat out of the window (ground floor) and go out there myself if there were a fire in the hall.

I know they say not to grab stuff, but the GO! bag fits around me like a cross-body purse, and I'd hate to try to re-start my life in 2024 without my driver's license, ATM card, checks, etc. That would be a nightmare!
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Don't forget to include some mal with your address on it!
 
adgal

adgal

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So - this is weird. The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office Facebook page is telling folks to evacuate immediately from the Eastbrook Subdivision.

But Willie McKercher, the Chief of the Dam Safety Division at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, is telling them that Eastbrook is NOT going to flood and asking them not to spread misinformation.


The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Office 's Post​




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The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Office​

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This will not affect any other besides the Eastbrook Subdivision. Emergency Management Officials are on scene, deputies are on scene evacuating the ones that needed to evacuate. This has nothing to do with the levee on Highway 3 in Yazoo City. Officials are on scene monitoring the conditions in this area. Updates will be given

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Willie McKercher
Eastbrook will not flood. Please do not spread misinformation.




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Wildwood

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Try as I might, I cannot find the name of the lake where the dam is about to fail. I've looked. I'm just curious because I spent seventeen years of my life in MS...most in the northern part but a few years further south.
 
Jeff Allen

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Hfcomms said:
Fires and floods are the difficult parts of prepping. There isn't a whole lot you can do if either come knocking at your door.
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Good sir, I respectfully disagree 100% on the flood thing.
Fire...yeah, you should at least have plans, hoses ect....

But flood? You know where it doesn't ever flood? High ground. Don't buy low ground and put a house on it! 100% preventable!

I remember back in '93 I had just moved to the st. louis area and was freaked by all the flooding as a youngster. Was working with our church group to fill six bajilloin sand bags...

One of our members lived in a house on stilts down by the missouri river, I had never seen such a thing, I asked, how often does this happen? They said, every year (of course '93 was special and much higher than normal). I asked why on earth would they ever put up with such misery....they said, they were used to it and plus they got money from fed gov every few years.....GRRRRR
That was it for me, I don't give the slightest shit about anyone who lives next to a river. Its their own stupid fault. The people who my heart really goes out for are the folks who live somewhere between the 50-100 year flood line and have no idea they are at risk (I realize some in that area do know they have risk), but some have no idea, and those folks I would walk through glass to try and help out. The people who choose to live in a flood plane? Wouldn't lift a finger ever again...

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meezy

meezy

I think I can...
Jeff Allen said:
That was it for me, I don't give the slightest shit about anyone who lives next to a river. Its their own stupid fault. The people who my heart really goes out for are the folks who live somewhere between the 50-100 year flood line and have no idea they are at risk (I realize some in that area do know they have risk), but some have no idea, and those folks I would walk through glass to try and help out. The people who choose to live in a flood plane? Wouldn't lift a finger ever again...
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Near where I live they are building lots of new homes on a flood plain -- not a big river or anything, but a few creeks with potential. Seems pretty dumb to me, and these are going to be $500K-plus homes.

Our house is on a hill. :) I feel kinda sorry for the folks across the street, at the bottom of the hill. I know the ones right across from us can't do laundry or shower when it rains a lot because their septic field turns into a swamp, and it's right next to one of those creeks. They can't even have a basement there. I'd never buy a house without one, and preferably one that didn't need a sump pump, though it seems that most do.
 
CaryC

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Well I got to tell ya, people have short memories and realtors take advantage of that. When you're in a dry spell it's all good and forget it floods until it does.

On a different note: Any word on whether the levy broke?
 
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Deeb

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adgal said:
So - this is weird. The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office Facebook page is telling folks to evacuate immediately from the Eastbrook Subdivision.

But Willie McKercher, the Chief of the Dam Safety Division at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, is telling them that Eastbrook is NOT going to flood and asking them not to spread misinformation.

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I wondered at the headline. It's not the norm for the Sherriff's Dept to issue evacuation warnings, but to enforce them. Looked up the guy and he's new in office. Also, I don't know the average IQ of Yazoo County, but can safely bet all I have that there are no Mensa clubs in the public schools.
 
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Abe Froman

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Toosh said:
Your sheriff is elected - I would follow my sheriff over some bureaucrat who's told not to panic the masses.
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Back in 2010 when Nashville had a 1000 year flood, the general manager of the Opryland hotel contacted the Army Corps of Engineers and asked about the Cumberland river topping the levees on the property.
The Corps of Engineers told him that the river would not Top the Levees.
He disregarded their information and ordered the complete evacuation of the packed hotel on a Saturday night.
Alarms went off. People were ordered to awaiting busses. Shortly later, the entire hotel was flooded when the river topped the levee.
No way to estimate how many people would have died that night.
It took a lot of guts to make the hard call.
 
Knoxville's Joker

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Abe Froman said:
Back in 2010 when Nashville had a 1000 year flood, the general manager of the Opryland hotel contacted the Army Corps of Engineers and asked about the Cumberland river topping the levees on the property.
The Corps of Engineers told him that the river would not Top the Levees.
He disregarded their information and ordered the complete evacuation of the packed hotel on a Saturday night.
Alarms went off. People were ordered to awaiting busses. Shortly later, the entire hotel was flooded when the river topped the levee.
No way to estimate how many people would have died that night.
It took a lot of guts to make the hard call.
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And he probably had some heads served after it happened…
 
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