If the Mississippi River changes course, how will this affect the north shore?

They wouldn’t let it change course.

fishing and crabbing in ponchartrain will improve

There might not be a more 100% wrong answer in the history of TD.

Slidell will be a shithole.

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I’m probably gonna be moving to the north shore this summer

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It’s closed for new move ins.


Seriously for all the things in this world to worry about choose something more relevant and likely to happen.

Even if the Morganza structure were to completely fail it would not be a complete course change, there would simply be less flow down the old channel, they would both be distributaries, there is a bit of dissagreement as to how much each would carry.

Honestly I am not so sure it would be a bad thing long term as something has to give sooner or later and everything we have done over the last 175 years has only kicked the can down the road and allowed things to fester.

If the river ever jumps, which I’m betting it will some day, mother nature’s undefeated, where you live won’t matter, it won’t just be catastrophic to South Louisiana, it’ll be catastrophic to the entire nation. Ship traffic won’t be accessible anymore and trillions of dollars of infrastructure will be affected that the country is heavily dependent on. It’s gonna take a minute to figure that mess out.

So the last thing in the world you need to worry about in making your decision is what the river’s gonna do. If you’re that worried about it just move to Houston, they’ll probably have a nice boom trying to pick up the slack.

The river levels are becoming very interesting. I follow the river and reservoir stages up in the north due to a kayak race I’ve participated in on the Missouri River. Most of the reservoirs are well about the normal capacity for entering winter. They couldn’t release more to get them down due to record high river levels on the Mississippi River last fall.

On top of that, most of the “snow dumps” for Northern cities in the basin are also at record levels. They can’t add anymore snow to the compounds and they still have 2 months of heavy winter left.

The Mississippi River in Baton Rouge is already rising. It’s already at the base of the levee and going up daily.

Looks like the levee system will be tested again this year. Given the northern reservoir and snow dumps being above capacity to hold snow and water, they will have no option but to let the water flow south as snow melts. They usually control the release of water from reservoirs, doesn’t look like they will really have that as an option this year.

I think Morganza will have to be opened as well as blowing levees up north that flood farmland to slow the movement of water down the MS River.

How will this affect the Northshore???

How will this affect the global economy is more like it. If you even asked this in the first place... I consider you a dumbass.

for a doc, this is about as stupid of a question that I can imagine