Final blast completed
Friday, May 6, 2011
Flood gauges at Cape; Cairo, Ill.; and Paducah, Ky., lower
NEW MADRID -- At 2:39 p.m. Thursday, explosives set by the Corps of Engineers opened the third and final crevasse of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.
By 4 p.m. officials were looking at the next steps in the battle with rising flood waters on the Mississippi River.
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