CAT Tracks for July 21, 2012 WHAT A DIFFERENCE

...a year makes!

On April 30, 2011...

The Mayor of Cairo ordered a "mandatory evacuation" of the city as the Ohio River approached record levels.

The new record ended up being 61.72 feet.

If not for the controversial decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to blow the Birds Point levee, the water might well have come over the top of the Cairo levee wall.

Fifteen months and three weeks later...