Posted on 10/11/2017 12:51:58 AM PDT by ransomnote
Full title: Mississippi River cargo shipping costs SOAR - Prices of goods go HIGH as mighty river goes LOW!
Video at link. Vlogger documents unusually dry conditions in Mississippi and resulting increases in shipping costs, and resultant anticipated cost increases passed on to consumers. Expected to impact exports.
I hope that you don’t believe this nonsense.
Yeah, but it’s written in big BLOCK letters, so there must be something to it.
Ol’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’,
He jes’keeps rollin’
He keeps on rollin’ along.
Traffic on the Mississippi is normal?
Bzzzzzzz.
Stan Freeberg's Elderly Man River. 1957 era P.C. Police run amok.
I miss old Stan...
“Yeah, but it’s written in big BLOCK letters, so there must be something to it.”
Naa, it needs to say BOOM! to have any meaning.
...speaking of that, it does seem that people are finally laying off of that expression here, finally.
Or how about the Jeeves and Wooster episode in which Bertie is going to sing “Old Man River” in a show, and is explaining the song to someone.
“Well, it seems to be about this chap Rivah...”
The river, like the rest of nature, does whatever it wants to do.
Huckleberry Finn's idyll.
Darn global drying.
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt
https://www.drought.gov/drought/data-maps-tools/current-conditions
http://rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/new/layout.cfm
If river barge traffic were stopped for any length of time, it would be front page news.
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