Posted on 09/30/2017 11:55:40 AM PDT by ransomnote
Video at the link. Full title: Wow | River gauges/pics show the Mighty Mississippi River going dry! - NEW Tropical Storms
The vlogger received photos from some truckers who pass by the Mississippi River frequently. They said it's lower than they've ever seen it before. The vlogger accesses NOAA water level information that indicates water levels too low (or absent) in some stretches of the river to permit shipping.
Country Boy Can Survive. In 1981.
The river is what the experts call a river. The flow of rivers vary, which means the water goes up & down. Think the river will stay low? Nope.
On Aug 25th the MO crested 16 ‘ above average.
If gravel is built up the water flows under the gravel.
2017 DROUGHT MAP - September
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Midwest
yet, Asian carp find their way north
The five lowest levels of the Mississippi at ST.Louis:
Depth Date
1. -6.20 ft: Jan. 16, 1940
2. -5.80 ft: Jan. 26, 1963
3. -5.60 ft: Jan. 1, 1964
4. -5.50 ft:Dec. 12, 1937
5. -5.32 ft: Dec. 26, 1989
Level of Mississippi at ST.Louis 09/30/2017 16:30 hrs:+2.79
Follow the official path of the Mississippi up far enough, and it goes under some guys driveway.
It’s all local. Our pond in eastern Kansas is overflowing.
very dry in Western Canada and Montana this summer.
My grandmother was a baby when her parents drove a covered wagon across the Mississippi into Missouri...it was frozen all the way across.
Wow,
Great story.
It’s fall.
It was flooding earlier in the in the Iowa/Wisconsin area
:)
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