High water headed yall's way.

High river is the new norm

Too late

I have been hunting in Natchez for the last 18 years on the river. The destruction that the river has caused the last 5 years will take years, if ever, to recover. We have 6 ft. of sand on our food plots.

Are they going to let the river keep silting up north of baton rouge until the old river control structure fails?

Every year the river bottom at the control structures gets higher and higher. Do they have a plan? The cost of a structure failure would be biblical.

Atchafalaya would more than double in size within days.
All pipelines and bridges that cross the atchafalaya would be shut down and would probably wash away.
Say good-bye to cities along the Atchafalaya.
Water levels in the lower Mississippi would drop and saltwater wedge would start moving towards New Orleans.
Coastal Louisiana along from Grand Isle East would never even have the opportunity to be saved as the worker (the Mississippi River) would never be what what it was.
Industry along the Mississippi River would dry up and move.
New Orleans one of the largest ports in America would be screwed. Refineries/plants... screwed.

Will the a-holes in congress wait until after it is to late to act, like they always do?

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Schools out up here because of the flooding.

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Where’s up here?

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The river bottom everywhere is getting higher I would imagine

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Bottom is the same as always from br south due to dredging.

Snow melt is overrated on the lower Mississippi.

Sure, the authorized ship channel dimensions are, but that’s a small portion of the cross section.

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Where’s up here?

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SW Virginia. East Tennessee newspaper photos: LINK

The entire Virginia watershed west of the Appalachian spine drains to the Mississippi. For this event, we are not considering only Virginia's flooding. West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and portions of North Carolina are also flooded. These regions drain to the Mississippi, also.