[Ditter]

This time last year the high pressure was centered on Texas and we were burning up, literally on fire. Our lakes and rivers were drying up, our water supply was low. This year it is centered farther north and the middle of the country is burning up.

Texas got rain, they will too.

[reagan_fanatic]

The real question is how much money will Obama start throwing at it?

Of course, he could just stand on the banks, stretch out his staff and bring forth the waters.

[okie01]

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.

Really? It takes over four railcars to carry the contents of one semi-trailer?

I can't imagine Allegretti got the numbers wrong. So, we're left with an ignorant reporter making a stupid mistake and reversing the numbers.

[HereInTheHeartland]

We are in a once a half a century drought; yes the river level will be low.
Also it was high last year downstream, due to record flows from the Missouri; so year to year comparisons would show a big difference.
Are all writers this lazy?

[blam]

"If the world’s largest navigable river system goes dry, the economic consequences will be felt around the world. "

I've read that the output of the Amazon River is much larger than the next ten largest rivers in the world combined. The Mississippi is just a 'puppy' compared to the Amazon.