Photo Images After The Flood of the Mississippi River 2011 by John Ruskey and The Delta Bohemian PLUS Poor William swims The Great Divide

Arid field with sparse vegetation

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  1. Driftwood Johnnie on 06/09/2011 at 11:39 AM

    Bravo Billy & Madge! What did y’all do, stay up all night long putting this together?

    I’m sure y’all know, but Billy what you swam through is a newly formed “blue hole.” They are located all over the Mississippi Valley, some of them become spectacular swim places. Well, you demonstrated that, although it looks to me like you had too many clothes on!

    Some people say they’re called “blue holes,” because the ol’ muddy mississippi clears out in these isolated pools. Other people say the term is “blew” holes, because they are formed by getting blown out during the high water.

    Either way, a unique phenomena of our precious river!

  2. Jane Tucker Bond on 06/10/2011 at 4:11 AM

    I swear fo God Boy, you ain’t got a lick of sense! That Blue/blew hole is full of bug killer, cotton defoliant and god knows what else! If you are going to continue to misbehave you just need to remember that Magical Madge is going to look really fetchin in black one of these days when you are frozen nekkid in the snow, divin into water jest cause it is there and bein stuck in a hole in the ground you can’t get out of and wearin a suit!

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