re: Mississippi River Lost 47% Of Its Water In Three Days - November 3rd, 2024

That was indeed quite interesting.

My ancestral home is Vicksburg, and my dad worked at the Corps of Engineers for a few years. The Mississippi is literally the heart of our country, and one of the key factors that helped our nation develop into a world superpower.

Thanks for posting.

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levees and dams really fricked some shite up from a nature/land perspective.

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It ruined the Missouri River from a nature standpoint. The levees more so than damns.

Here's a recent article saying the miss river is 10 feet below in baton Rouge. Blames droughts tho
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And here is a farm bureau article from September LINK

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However, for the fourth consecutive year, historically low river levels are threatening that critical connection to global markets. Persistent drought has once again reduced the depth and width of the navigation channel, forcing barges to carry lighter loads, limiting tow sizes and pushing transportation costs higher. These conditions, arriving during the peak of harvest, are putting additional pressure on farmgate prices and raising concerns about the competitiveness of U.S. grain exports.

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Even if not true, because someone from a waterboard, the corp, or a hydrologist might shoot this all down. But at least it wasn't another Bugaboo, Q'anon, or all priest, teachers, or immigrants are sex starved deviant pedophiles thread. It was something that maybe we could have an intelligent talk about... that everyone didn't already have mind grouped into a single mind dumbing consensus.

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Nobody is raising issue with the topic. The topic is one that should be discussed and researched and understood. What the man objections have been are that there YouTube page you linked is nothing it AI generated videos of the river and surrounding area with moderately related images and sometimes completely unrelated ones.

Because of this video I’m going to start reading about this so I will actually be knowledgeable on this topic so that’s a plus. However, if it’s absolute bullshite we shouldn’t post it and not comment on it because it “started a conversation”

For example, this link states that the low river is almost exclusively due to drought from 2023, 2024, and 205
Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative article

CNN article from 2023

And yet somehow a lot of the other effects of preventing thousands of years of flooding and building up coastal lands is being blamed on big oil. Yes by all means, figure out a way that parishes can steal billions from oil companies to embezzle.

“ A Plaquemines Parish jury has ruled that Chevron Corp. must pay the local government more than $740 million, blaming the fossil fuel company for decades of damage to its wetlands.

The ruling is the first among several lawsuits from coastal parishes in Louisiana that want the oil and gas industry to compensate them for carving up swamps and marshland. Local officials contend the vast work related to energy exploration and pipelines has gradually exacerbated the natural depletion of coastal areas, making them less effective barriers against hurricanes.

Chevron has said it intends to appeal the ruling. It’s among several companies from which Louisiana parishes are seeking billions in damages for coastal land loss.”

Chevron handed $740M verdict

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I couldn't find anything about the flow rates upstream and downstream not lining up OFB let me know if you have any luck

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USGS has an incredible website that allows you to download data at different stations. I haven’t looked it up this morning but I may later depending on how non-productive I feel like being at work.

Texas has been scheming to steal the Mississippi R since the 1960's. Looks like they have done it. Maybe using Musk's boring technology. Missing part of the puzzle is where they are storing all the stolen water. Maybe in all the depleted Permian Basin wells. I'll ask GORK to run the numbers.

I hope he was joking because if he was its kinda funny

My uncle is a Mississippi River crawfish harvester and even he noticed the water has been off.

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Who dat talkin bout those Cairo Pirates, who dat, who dat?

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It is the Cairo Pilots, not Pirates.