re: River Flooding in the Ohio Valley coming to Louisiana in mid March

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Extensive planning should have gone into where cities were built.

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It wasn't until the early part of the 1900s when anyone had an idea the river was going to change course. New Orleans had been established for a good 200 years by that point. That ignores the practical of how much industry and shipping are dependent on the river as it flows now. You're talking about 13% of the US oil refining capacity being knocked out and the ports that export all the food and products shipped down the river.