According to Walt Grayson’s Facebook post, the Mississippi River is expected to crest this week at Rodney, where the water was already inside Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Sunday.
Categories: Disasters, Historic Preservation, Rodney
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A Major Flood is coming down the Mississippi River.
It is due to Crest in Vicksburg on Friday, will Crest at Rodney about a day later.
Bonnie Carre Spillway, located upstream from New Orleans, was opened a few days past.
Talk of opening Morganza, located up stream from Baton Rouge and across the Mississippi River from Woodville, Mississippi, Morganza, to my knowledge, has not been opened at this time.
Sam P
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Morganza Floodway will not be opened, Corps of Engineers decides.
Times-Picayune
The Morganza Floodway, designed to divert a portion of the Mississippi River into theAtchafalaya River Basin, need not be opened to reduce the Mississippi’s flow to safe levels this month between the floodway and the Bonnet Carre Spillway, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Monday (Jan. 11).http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2016/01/morganza_floodway_will_not_be.html#incart_river_index
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They worked on the church four years ago this past summer. I took some pictures during the restoration. I wondered why the church was putting so much energy into the restoration and not try to move it to higher ground.
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The work you saw taking place was likely for the James Brown movie “Get On Up” and to my understanding was only to get the structure up to snuff for filming. If you’ve seen the movie the church is still pretty rough looking.
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Does anybody know the complete story with the church? I’d love to be able to save it by moving it onto the property at Belmont and restoring it. I don’t think it will last, being at its current location…
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Joshua, Google Rodney, Mississippi to get the complete….well, maybe not complete but good bit of the story.
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I posted a few photographs of the church interior from December 2013:
http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2014/02/return-to-rodney-semi-deserted.html
It looked reasonably sound then, but I have not been back since then to check it or any other buildings in Rodney.
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The Mississippi River is at Crest at vicksburg at about 50.2 Feet. It is a long Crest and will be three or Four days before significant fall is noticed. It is still at Crest at Greenville. The Crest will rech Rodney on Saturday, It looks pretty Good, The Missisipspi Crested at Cairo about Seven – Eight Days past and has dropped approx Ten feet.
Sam P
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I would be available to help repair damage to Rodney. I still think the State of Mississippi should acquire the property and make it a park.
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Bill Boyd, If you’re not already a member of the Rodney facebook page, you should join. There is going to be a clean up day in the near future……date yet to be determined. A group of about 70 members of the page had a clean up day last Feb. and there have been a couple more work days since then by a Sons of the Confederacy group who are now in charge of cleaning around the Presbyterian Church and cemetery. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RodneyMississippiRemembering/
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