Posted on 08/06/2012 10:47:43 PM PDT by Aquamarine
What is Obama gonna do to save us?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
In the interest of warning as many people as possible, the author has made it available on Amazon as a Kindle download for $0.99.
The book is well written, well documented, and will keep you up at night. It's something most Americans prefer not to think about.
(6) -8.00 ft on 11/16/1993
With a slight reprieve predicted, let's hope it doesn't match the record:
(1) -10.70 ft on 07/10/1988
I remember that year very well, just from local conditions here in Chitown. The grass was silver in June, and the golf course that summer was like hard clay. This was before global warming, I guess, because nobody mentioned it.
For such a time as this . . . . http://patburt.com/
We’re in the 17th straight year of a drought here in central GA. I know it will end someday, but I would still like to be around to see it...
Al Gore and friends were sitting around laughing about the gullibility of the masses of Americans. They pondered on just how they could capitalize on this mass ignorance and settled on Global Warming. Primitive people in the throes of a crisis of no rain, extreme heat (summer) would certainly be receptive to a savior. They are all flim flam specialists and they are using a predictable increase in heat to scare the idiots into compliance. What better way to become King?
“(1) -10.70 ft on 07/10/1988”
During that summer a Hydrologist was interviewed on radio and he said it would take a decade for the watershed in Minnesota to recover....before the end of the summer of 1989, the watershed had not only recovered but was over flowing.
The Earth is self-regulating. Now someone needs to teach the elites that they cannot make it over again in their image.
The Trumpet is published by the Philadelphia Church of God which is an abusive cult headed by an alcoholic named Gerald Flurry.
They have to be joking, right?
Of course!! Everybody knows the answer is "government."
Volga River (Russia) and the Yangtze (China)? C'mon! Not saying naviagable rivers are not important, but let's not go overboard!
“Oh, the article mentions “ships”.
You will never see a sea going ship on the Mississippi.
Only barges travel the river, transporting bulk materials.”
http://www.riverlorian.com/mississippiriver.htm
“Once reaching Baton Rouge, Louisiana there are ocean going ships that come into the Mississippi River from the Gulf Mexico. The lower 234 miles of the river is a deep-water port. “
“Once reaching Baton Rouge, Louisiana there are ocean going ships that come into the Mississippi River”
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Yes, I know that many ships enter the mouth, but they do not traverse the river north of Louisiana.
At least in my fifty years there, I never saw a “ship”.
Deep draft vessels cannot get north of N. Baton Rouge - the Old MS River bridge is too low, courtesy of H. P. Long.
LLS
“Here’s the River gauge at Memphis. It is low, and so far has matched the sixth lowest on record:
(6) -8.00 ft on 11/16/1993 “
This surprises me as August 1993 was the year the Missouri river had its “500 year” flood.
All that rain runs off into the Tennessee River that empties into the Ohio at Paducaa that empties into the Mississippi at Cairo. The water is coming from the TVA lakes that are all at peak pool levels
BTW Last October we spent a month on the Great River Road. It is a marked series of roads that run from the head at Lake Itaska Minnesota to the mouth at Venice Louisiana following the Mississippi through the very heart of America. It is a great trip and America at it's very best. We saw all the tows and the myriad of port facilities that ship or receive the vast production of America. It is truly amazing in scope
Actually, sea going ships come up the river as far a Baton Rouge and the port of New Orleans carries very high tonnage
The Hurt P Long bridge is plenty high enough to permit passage of ocean going traffic. How do you think all those naval vessels built at Avondale get out?
“Deep draft vessels cannot get north of N. Baton Rouge”
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Yes, the river is only for riverboats, not ships.
IIRC, many years ago there was the desire to bring a US navy ship up the river and dock it in Memphis as a museum.
After all, Millington, a suburb of Memphis is home to maybe the largest INLAND US navy base. It is, however, a naval air base, not at all related to the seas.
I do, however, remember as a child, seeing hordes of sailors
in there bright whites cruising the streets of downtown Memphis.
I think the problem with bringing a ship up the river was that it had to be done during spring floods, but at that time, they would not be able to clear the bridges.
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