[Political Junkie Too]

The Mighty Mississippi to Run Dry?

It depends on whom the Almighty Obama is mad at this week.

-PJ

[DoughtyOne]

I honestly do grow weary of these reports that seek to convince everyone that the end is near.

We have had droughts before. We will have them in the future.

The world is not going to suddenly come to an end, or the U. S. fail because the Mississippi river bed is going to run dry.

We have droughts and we have floods. Ten or fifteen years ago we had major flooding on the Mississippi. At the time folks were convinced that farms were going to disappear, and the river was going to eat up a lot of farmland. Today it’s just the opposite.

Somehow, we’ll get through this. Some hand wringers won’t, but the rest of us will. There’s no such thing as a normal when it comes to weather. It’s cyclical. Things will turn around. We will survive.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Call in the Hopi indians.

[Ezekiel]

The Mighty Mississippi to Run Dry? <<<

The Mississippi River, in conjunction with Missouri, Red, Arkansas and Ohio rivers, comprises the largest interconnected network of navigable rivers in the world. Stratfor calls the Greater Mississippi river network “the circulatory system of the Midwest.” It is what opens up one third of America to the world. Even without the addition of canals, it is possible for ships from anywhere in the world to reach nearly any part of the Midwest. With the addition of canals, goods can now be transported from the Great Lakes in the north to New Orleans in the south.

And this fantastic water highway just happens to sit astride the most fertile crop-growing region in the world.

The great river... allegory?

[married21]

I’ve seen more dry rivers than full ones, as a Southern Californian. Last week I was in Bakersfield. The Kern was just a long bone-dry path of sand. I’ve always been kind of jealous of places where they have water in their rivers all year round.

[Loyal Sedition]

Last time this happened old sunken paddle-wheelers were located, studied, and their artifacts salvaged.

Yes, this has happened before, and will again, there is a reason rainfall forecast are based on an AVERAGE.

We had a very pleasant mild winter in my area last year, I am NOT looking forward to the extra heavy winter I expect this year.
I’ve ben here long enough to see the pattern, “drought” followed by record setting wet.

Even the article mentions severe flooding a short time ago, nature does tend to average these things out.

[DesertRhino]

The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
And you only get mugged
If you go down town

I live back in the woods, you see
A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

[LukeL]

The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry

[AlexW]

Much ado about nothing.
I grew up in Memphis, had an office on Front Street, and saw the river in flood and drought.
I even had the pleasure of steering a barge train one day,
when I was in the marine radio communications business, mid 60s.
A high river is just as much of a problem for barge operators, as a low river.

Oh, the article mentions “ships”.
You will never see a sea going ship on the Mississippi.
Only barges travel the river, transporting bulk materials.

[Eleutheria5]

But Mark Twaine predicted that it would one day be only a few paces long. Is...is this the work of Man-Bear-Pig?

[Dan Zachary]

Tom Allegretti, president of the American Waterways Operators, reports that it would take 130 semitrucks or 570 rail cars to haul the freight unloaded by one large barge grouping under those conditions."

Tom is a frickin moron. One rail car can hold about 100 tons, how much can a semi hold? Trains can get it there in about 2 days or less. Shipping from Iowa to New Orleans is 640 ton-miles per gallon on a train and 544 ton-miles per gallon for a barge. Iowa State University

Trains win in both time and ton-miles per gallon.

[matthew fuller]

"world’s largest navigable river system "

The Nile and Amazon Rivers are not navigable????

[867V309]

The sky is falling.

[hattend]

What is Obama gonna do to save us?

Never let a crisis go to waste.

[fso301]

The Trumpet is published by the Philadelphia Church of God which is an abusive cult headed by an alcoholic named Gerald Flurry.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What is the single greatest reason America is so wealthy? According to the analysts at Stratfor, it is because of a river.

They have to be joking, right?

Of course!! Everybody knows the answer is "government."

[LibLieSlayer]

Gee if these arseholes would put down marx, engels and mao and actually put effort into American History... they can see that what they all think is new and threatening... is just histrionic nature. We have been here before and we will come visit again. We have floods and droughts and hurricanes and tornadoes... and we always have and we always will... and every now and again... something terrible happens. THAT is why they made “THE BUMPERSTICKER”.

LLS

[bert]

Not to worry....... yesterday our area received in excess of 6 " of rain. The month of July recorded near record rainfall and actually exceeded the records on two specific days. The rain came every afternoon and every night.

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

[norwaypinesavage]

Lewis and Clark started with their canoes in NY state and went down to the Ohio river. They took the Ohio to the Mississippi, and then up to the Missouri river. They paddled the Missouri and its tributaries upstream to Idaho. This is all the Mississippi river watershed. Some years it gets more rain than average, some years it gets less. The Mississippi just keeps on rollin’ along.

[arrdon]

Guess someone pulled a giant plug in the atmosphere allowing all the moisture content to leak out? Same amount of water today as we had at the beginning, half-wit.