"The Rio Grande at Presidio... has been threatened by flooding for nearly two weeks because of torrential rain in Mexico"
So WHERE has the coverage been, shit MSM, and why is your "paper" filled with so much garbage?? This is the FIRST I'VE SEEN of this in your agenda-pushing shit sheets!!!!!
"Texas braces for release from Mexican reservoir" by Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press | September 21, 2008
PRESIDIO, Texas - Helicopters dropped huge sandbags on a levee and a crew of prison inmates worked to create a makeshift dam yesterday in this rural border city threatened by flooding from the Rio Grande.
Prison labor? In Amerika? Isn't that a communist gig?
As rains continued pounding Mexico, Presidio authorities feared yesterday their counterparts across the border would be forced to release more water from a reservoir, potentially endangering the US side.
But Chihuahua state Civil Protection Director Issac Olivas said yesterday afternoon that water levels at the reservoir were dropping, so officials would be able to release less water than they had been doing earlier this week.
Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton was pleased but said that workers would continue to build the dam and try to shore up a weakened levee. Crews prepared yesterday to line a section of the levee with heavy plastic anchored by sandbags to keep water from leaking through.
The Rio Grande at Presidio, a city of nearly 5,000 about 250 miles southeast of El Paso, has been threatened by flooding for nearly two weeks because of torrential rain in Mexico and the forced release of water from the Luis Leon Reservoir. That water flows into the Rio Conchos, which feeds the Rio Grande."