I started off walking down the road to find this:

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I then climbed into this skybridge,
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Normally thats a parking lot under there.

From there I could see these clearly marked pedestrian crossings:

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and also some nice benches to sit in

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I could also see how thoughtful the town was, telling people driving down the road where the detour was:
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But if you wanted a hotdog, never fear! You could swim out to the stand:
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YOu can see how the waters are up to the level of a flood in 69 and again in 75.

The bridge I'm on, apart from being made so people could get cool pictures, served to get people over this:

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railroad, and into this:
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Casino riverboat.

I can also see where they are building the dirt levee.

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Lets go look at it!

Walking over I can see a massive pump (one of many)
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It's pumping mass amounts of water over this dirt wall:
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Ah ha, in the distance I can see where they are actually building it. Lets walk over. On the way I ran into this:

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Building the levee is pretty easy. You dump dirt:
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And then push it:

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and then puch it some more:
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Until you get to the top!
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Then you get some guys to pull some tarps on it:

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And your levee is done!

And you just have to pump all the water over like so:

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Comments? I had the camera set to over expose just a bit by accident, but I don't think that they came out to badly

Good framing. A little post process and they will be ready.

remind me of that area, River Dr I think.

I actually go to school across the river, so I haven't been affected by it at all.