Video of Birds Point levee being blown up by Army Corps or Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers went through with a plan to blow up part of the Birds Point levee in southeastern Missouri last night. The controversial plan has made national news in the past week because it posed a lose-lose situation for residents of Missouri and Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers: If the Mississippi was allowed to continue to rise, Cairo would face a massive flood.

But by blasting the levee, 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland will be ruined. Watch the video after the jump.