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Why is the river so low?
Posted on 8/31/12 at 10:37 am
Posted on 8/31/12 at 10:37 am
May be a dumb question, but I walked along the levee in the French quarter last night and was expecting to see the river higher than ever, but it was the lowest I've ever seen. Waves were actually washing up on the bank wich was visible below the rocks.
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Posted on 8/31/12 at 10:41 am to rintintin
Isaac sucked all the water out.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 10:43 am to rintintin
There is a huge drought up north and in the midwest right now that has the river the lowest it has been in like 20+ years. Lots of river traffic has been shut down up north because of this.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 10:45 am to rintintin
it takes a long while for the water to travel. aint rocket science. and as said, it started so low it may not rise very much, considering the capacity of the mighty miss
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:00 am to rintintin
Dry air!
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:17 am to DaBeerz
The river has been low for months due to the drought, and good thing or else more areas would have flooded.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:27 am to rintintin
Local weather doesn't really impact the river. Lots of rain upstream does and will.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:30 am to rintintin
To answer your inital question, the river did rise about 8-10ft during the storm according to some people I know that work on the river around New Orleans. It just went down quick after the storm.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:51 am to rintintin
Nothing below the mouth Red River flows into the Mississippi. All the rain that falls in S. La reaches the gulf through other routes. The storm surge caused water to flow backwards and raised the Mississippi about ten feet, but that's already flowed back out.
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