Posted on 10/07/2017 8:42:46 AM PDT by ckilmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXCAHYSr_c0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9hxZTwpndU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHgqY-U9f1M
Water may return after the hurricane from the gulf hits Louisiana and heads north in a couple of days
Well Mark Twain had written: The Mississippi river is too thick to drink and too thin to plow.
Maybe it could just be a beginnings of a drought in the North like Ohio. I believe some of the rain that falls in the Ohio region feeds the Mississippi River... Is there a drought up north?
Nearly 2/3 of the entire continental US watershed flows to the Mississippi River. The only part of the Ohio watershed that does not is that which flows to Lake Erie.
Predicted to r8se 8 to 10 feet in next week.
The whole Mississippi valley up north is dryer than a popcorn fart.
Way behind normal rain this year in Warren county Illinois.
For readings at all river gauges:
http://rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/new/layout.cfm
For St. Louis district readings:
http://mvs-wc.mvs.usace.army.mil/dresriv.html
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Not sure where the water is going. Up here in the headwaters of the mighty miss it’s basically rained every day for a week.
We were flooding in Illinois most of July. Then the rain just stopped. And now you can’t keep your grass alive. Its called weather. It changes. Sometimes it goes to extremes and sometimes it doesn’t. But if you measure it everyday in every part of the world you will find that somewhere is breaking a record every day. And often you are getting a driest month in one place with a coldest month somewhere else. And a hottest day somewhere with a coldest day somewhere else.
Horse hockey. In the video the guy says the low end of the range for the Mississippi is 6 feet and it’s currently at 2.6 feet, then proceeds to say it’s dry there.
Yet barges continue up and down the Mississippi, no doubt on wheels.
I grew up in that area and still have family there. My sister thinks I should move back and that the New Madrid stuff is no big deal, nothing to worry about.
"Yeah, right...", I think, as that scene in Elwood's apartment comes to mind:
Jake: "How often does the train go by?"
Elwood: "So often you won't even notice."
Great quote!
Tennessee valley is wet.
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