YAZOO PUMPS- HERE WE GO AGAIN

BR549 · Postby **BR549** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:24 pm

To all you folks against the pumps: Have you ever deer hunted in the south delta? Well if you have or ever think you might you definately want the pumps!!!!! If you weren't there in 1973 there is no way I can describe the damage that was done to not just the deer heard but all the animals in the whole south delta! It was not only tragic but down right horrible! If those pumps would only have saved 2 feet on the elevation It would have meant thousands of deer and turkey would have survived that didn't! I know I was there! Watched deer crawl over other dead deer just to eat a few dried leaves out of you hand! Deer were so tired and hungry they wouldn't even put up a fight when you picked them up and put them in a boat to take them to high ground! When you would go cut a tree top out for them to eat on they were so tired you had to put it so close to the animal that he could reach it for his laying position! It was awful!!!! Not to mention slingin sandbags all night long trying to save a friends house and all his belongings! Building levees so fast they would topple with you on top of them in tractor sometimes. Yea I rode one all the way down one nite flipped 4 times before I got to the bottom! Yall just don't know what the hell you are talking about! You bitch and fuss about the resevoirs up there being so low this time of year! They have to be or we flood down here in the spring when they have to turn them loose and there is no way for the water to get out! Yea this was a stupid project. But the stupid part was they started on the top end of the project and dumped all yalls headache down here on us instead of deciding what they were going to do with all this water when it got here first!!!! These pumps were first authorized in 1941 and were suppose to be put in before anything else was done.

ANYBODY THAT IS AGAINST THEM CAN JUST KISS MY ROYAL ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Po Monkey Lounger · Postby **Po Monkey Lounger** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:41 pm

As the late great Sam Kennison might have said (or screamed :lol:

): MOVE TO THE HIGHER GROUND!!!!!! :wink:

Bullreds & Greenheads · Postby **Bullreds & Greenheads** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:44 pm

I'm against them, too.

The only way my mind could be changed on the pump issue is if they can be converted or modified in such a way as to suck the global warming crappage out of Hammer's head. :twisted:

Then, I might support it. :lol:

BR549 · Postby **BR549** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:10 pm

There is not enough people still living in the lowest areas to worry about anymore. What few are left have adjusted for the frequent high water. What im talking about is the abundance of game that would be lost! It would really be horrifying! Look we didn't even have a deer season down here for 5 years after 1973 flood. Why? Cause we had no deer left! They all drowned! We have at least 10 times the deer and turkey not to mention hogs that we had prior to '73 the mortality rates would just be horrifying! You think PETA is on the bandwagon now you just let that happen! I tellin you if you weren't there you can't imagine just how horrible it was! From Hwy 14 at Anguilla south other than some Deer Creek land around Rolling Fork there was NOTHING out of water all the way to the hills on the east and south! Had there not been levees around parts of Rolling Fork some of it would have flooded. Including the hospital!Hwy 16 running thru Deltal National Forest had 7 feet of water over it. I skied down the top of Dummyline road! There was not a ridge in Delta National out of water! Like I said if you weren't here you can't possibly know. But just 2 feet of elevation difference would have saved a lot of game! Putting everything back in timber is not going to stop flooding! But it will allow for more deer and other game to grow untill it floods again. Then you have even more death and destruction. You talk about wanton waste? Couldn't hold a candle to what would happen here if another '73 happend. I would hate to try to guess the numbers of deer that would die from either drowning or starvation. Either way it would be a tragedy! A tragedy that the SPORTSMAN of Mississippi are trying to create by being against the pumps! Wake up people! The only way to prevent this from happening again is to have some way to remove the water out of the sump before it gets to the point of killing everything for 60 miles of the south delta! We've got to keep the backwater levels near 90 ft. Most of Delta National Forest is less than 92 ft elevation. Go do your own math!

gator · Postby **gator** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:10 pm

BR549 wrote:To all you folks against the pumps: Have you ever deer hunted in the south delta? Well if you have or ever think you might you definately want the pumps!!!!! If you weren't there in 1973 there is no way I can describe the damage that was done to not just the deer heard but all the animals in the whole south delta! It was not only tragic but down right horrible! If those pumps would only have saved 2 feet on the elevation It would have meant thousands of deer and turkey would have survived that didn't! I know I was there! Watched deer crawl over other dead deer just to eat a few dried leaves out of you hand! Deer were so tired and hungry they wouldn't even put up a fight when you picked them up and put them in a boat to take them to high ground! When you would go cut a tree top out for them to eat on they were so tired you had to put it so close to the animal that he could reach it for his laying position! It was awful!!!! Not to mention slingin sandbags all night long trying to save a friends house and all his belongings! Building levees so fast they would topple with you on top of them in tractor sometimes. Yea I rode one all the way down one nite flipped 4 times before I got to the bottom! Yall just don't know what the hell you are talking about! You bitch and fuss about the resevoirs up there being so low this time of year! They have to be or we flood down here in the spring when they have to turn them loose and there is no way for the water to get out! Yea this was a stupid project. But the stupid part was they started on the top end of the project and dumped all yalls headache down here on us instead of deciding what they were going to do with all this water when it got here first!!!! These pumps were first authorized in 1941 and were suppose to be put in before anything else was done.

ANYBODY THAT IS AGAINST THEM CAN JUST KISS MY ROYAL !@#!!!!!!!!!!!!

man was not meant to be that close to THAT river................deer herds are very different now too......at best, one might call a deer a glorified goat nowadays...........................at worst a nuisance....

take off the bell bottoms and the big ole gold medallion, take a bath and realize the lady folks really ain't "powdering their noses", and join us in the next millenia.....................you might like it

gator

pntailhntr · Postby **pntailhntr** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:39 pm

So when did MS "DUCKS" become MS "DEER"??????????

Wildfowler · Postby **Wildfowler** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:36 pm

What's a deer?

Postby **GordonGekko** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:00 pm

Wildfowler wrote:What's a deer?

4 legged critters that are sometimes farmed in a rough manner of speaking.... they are often valued for their meat, and their impressive headgear.... the benefits to deer are primarily that they don't have to migrate.... some friends of mine in Illinois call them "timber cows"...kinda fits.....

now back to the subject...duck hunting....carry on....

MSDawg870 · Postby **MSDawg870** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:06 pm

GordonGekko wrote:
Wildfowler wrote:What's a deer?
4 legged critters that are sometimes farmed in a rough manner of speaking.... they are often valued for their meat, and their impressive headgear.... the benefits to deer are primarily that they don't have to migrate.... some friends of mine in Illinois call them "timber cows"...kinda fits.....

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