How do the dams look up above?
Huge drought in South Central Illinois and Missouri.
I googled and found a lot of stories about the river dropping -— in 2012.
I have walked across the Mississippi. At the headwaters (the beginning).
how does the river dry up for 120 miles.
How can the river have water both above and below the dried up area?
This happens on the river every couple of years. Nothing te o get excited about. One year it got so low that a wrecked steam boat was discovered near Cape Girardeau. Pretty cool.
The Upper Mississippi river is low because of drought, but the barge traffic is still moving. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to maintain the 9 foot navigation channels.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2017/09/25/corps-of-engineers-battles-low-river-levels/
CBS St. Louis: “Corps of Engineers Battles Low River Levels”
Well, you Sillies! It’s running DOWNHILL and empties into the Gulf of Mexico!
Build The Wall...right there! Problem solved! :)
Isn’t there a verse in one of Hank Williams Jr.’s songs that says the Mississippi is going dry. And, that was a long time ago.
The river is what the experts call a river. The flow of rivers vary, which means the water goes up & down. Think the river will stay low? Nope.
yet, Asian carp find their way north
The five lowest levels of the Mississippi at ST.Louis:
Depth Date
1. -6.20 ft: Jan. 16, 1940
2. -5.80 ft: Jan. 26, 1963
3. -5.60 ft: Jan. 1, 1964
4. -5.50 ft:Dec. 12, 1937
5. -5.32 ft: Dec. 26, 1989
Level of Mississippi at ST.Louis 09/30/2017 16:30 hrs:+2.79
It’s fall.
It was flooding earlier in the in the Iowa/Wisconsin area