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Possible Mississippi River Shutdown Threatens Thousands of Jobs
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| November 30, 2012
| Justin Wingerter
Posted on 12/01/2012 5:14:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:17:09 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps when Obama stopped the rise of the oceans he should have left the Mississippi alone....;-)
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:19:00 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A fathom off mark twain. Bush’s fault.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:19:14 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Corps of engineers handles waterborne trade routes.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:19:14 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought for sure this was going to be another union goons on strike story.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:19:30 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The EPA will find some rare and endangered slug in the area and forbid any blasting ... after a 5 year study
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:20:25 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
directing his administration to take every step to mitigate the situation. Carney added that there are a number of complex legal and technical steps which can be pursued, saying the Army Corps of Engineers has taken proactive measures.
FEMA suggestion: ship some of the left over water from the SuperDuper Once-in-Eon Storm Sandy to the Mississippi. Probably a big hose could handle it.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:22:25 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
To: GeronL
Obama directed them to take every appropriate measure and to strictly avoid any measures that might lead to a mistake.
He might have even thrown in a “report back to me” somewhere for good measure.
That is leadership folks.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:22:39 PM PST
by
willyd
(Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So how does one go about dynamiting these rocks without creating the river equivalent of tsunamis?
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:22:50 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
To: RightGeek
find some rare and endangered slug in the area
Probably in a local office .... a supervisor!
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:25:05 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
To: willyd
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:28:16 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: RetiredTexasVet
Do I recall incorrectly or were there dams in place that the current administation demanded to be kept open last year? Or was that on the Missori?
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:29:43 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist Totalitarian Fascism coming to a country like yours.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lower the sea levels, raise the river levels, what’s a Marxist manchild to do?
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:30:05 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: willyd
Really. Well, send in then Corpsemen
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Corps needs to get in there and literally blow them up to get them out of the way or we will be either extremely limited or completely shut down some time between December 15 and December 30,One thing the Corp is not capable of doing is moving fast.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:32:24 PM PST
by
umgud
(No Rats, No Rino's)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Union jobs vs. wetlands. Hmm, I’ll just vote “present.”
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Low-Flow Toilets. Bring back the old porcelain kings, and you could float an aircraft carrier.
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:33:53 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: GeronL
There are only tiny streaks of snow on the peaks of the east side of the Continental Divide here for now (central Rockies). The peaks are mostly bare. The drought is covering a much larger geographical area than the drought of the Dust Bowl era. Drought Forecast from the NOAA site (weather.gov):
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:34:34 PM PST
by
familyop
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Globull warming doctrine manages to have it both ways. Droughts on the interior, and too much ocean. As if those were the only possibilities for water liberated from land ice in temperate climes to go.
As a “denier” I played around with the mind of a “believer” on Facebook the other day. I said when they were growing grapes in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, where were all the complaints about swamped shoreline cities? For that matter, where are all the American Indian legends about deserts that grew then receded, that ought to have followed?
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posted on
12/01/2012 5:35:02 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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