re: Mississippi River could change its course forever during one major flood

I’d have a front row seat for the natural upheaval. I’d drag a lawn chair and a cooler down to the levee. Maybe a hibachi and make a day of it.

Edit: Ignoring the disastrous economic consequences for NOLA, this would result in a rare semi-natural scene in the riverbed, where the greatly decreased river flow meets a saltwater body that rises and falls with the tides up and down the channel. I call it semi-natural because of the levees.

Might happen a little upstream of NOLA.

And plant life along the batture would be drastically altered. There’s a lot of St. Aug and other grasses there now that wouldn’t make it. In the interim what’s controlling erosion?