Okay can someone brief me on this....I know that there’s more than enough rainfall fairly recently but I’m still not understanding why the Mississippi is acting out like this. I mean it’s not even hurricane season yet!
If you do a little research you will find that in the upper Mississippi valley rainfall had been in the range of 200 to 300 percent over normal in the last few weeks.
When water flows downhill the river rises. A huge amount of water is flowing into the Mississippi primary floodpath.
Actually, a record amount of water is flowing. Everyone hopes the flood control systems we have spent trillions of dollars on over the last 75 years will work.
They have tried to contain it. They can coax that water to do things for a while but eventually it will do what it wants.
Snow melt + rain + global warming = must be Bush’s fault!
Most of the flooding has come from the Ohio River basin due to heavy rains in the east and maybe some snow melt in the Appalachians. The quantity of water must be more than the 1993 flooding from the Missouri/Mississippi system since that did not seem to cause significant problems below the confluence of the Mississippi/Ohio.