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That’s quite an engineering task trying to make the mighty Mississippi behave !
Usually these ‘sky is falling’ pieces are liberal hysteria - but this one looks real...
Once the Wall is built Trump should take a look at it.
Wow, good read. The things we don’t know of the past.
I never knew Einstein’s son worked with ORCS!
As to our primary national concerns, may I instead posit our national debt and illimmigration/multiculturalism.
“a demonstrable and present threat,”
Please provide evidence obtained using the Scientific Method.
https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/nature/river-course-changes.htm
The Mississippi River has changed course to the Gulf every thousand years or so
for about the last 10,000 years. Gravity finds a shorter, steeper path to the Gulf
when sediments deposited by the river make the old path higher and flatter. It’s
ready to change course again. It wants to take a short cut at the Old River
Control Complex down the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf at Morgan City, Louisiana.
It’s 193 miles shorter and steeper and faster than going by New Orleans.
Gravity makes water flow downhill. The higher the hill, the greater the “head”
or force driving the flow. Floods on the Mississippi raise the water level
inside the levees and increase this force. Floods are becoming more frequent,
longer, and higher — even though average annual rainfall in the Mississippi
drainage basin has been almost flat since 1940.
It has flooded every other year on average since 1972 vs. once every six and
a half years 1940-72. It has flooded eight of the last ten years at Natchez.
There have been two hundred-year floods within five years (2011 and 2016).
The odds are over a thousand-to-one against this. The average level or
stage of the river has risen ten feet at Natchez since 1972.
https://biggerpieforum.org/environment/growing-concern-mississippi-river-course-change/