2019 Mississippi River

[CharlieK]

A little like you did here? Good work.

Sick burn.

Can we move back onto river stages and whether or not Morgan City will exist come July, now?

[HelmutVII]

Big storm to bring blizzard conditions to Denver tomorrow and eventually to the upper portions of the Mississippi river basin. More snow pack to the basin before the end of the week.

[CharlieK]

Great book on this topic:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[CharlieK]

Cool map from the Fisk report. The Fisk report is the report that triggered the development of the ORCS.

[CajunNation]

Big storm to bring blizzard conditions to Denver tomorrow and eventually to the upper portions of the Mississippi river basin. More snow pack to the basin before the end of the week.

We REALLY need a few weeks of no rain for the river basin before snow melt reaches us.

If we don't dry out, and we get a Tropical system to sit over us for a few days, those levees are toast.

[CharlieK]

From the fisk report:

"Factors which will accelerate the diversionary process are
the frequency of floods or sustained high-water flows through the dis
tributary, continued dredging in the lower Atchafalaya Basin, and a
critical stage of development occurring before the time of 40 per cent
diversion. In connection with this last factor, any sudden increase in
deterioration of the Mississippi channel immediately below the point of
diversion should be interpreted as marking the beginning of the critical
stage. "

Didn't someone mention the rapid rising of the river bed below ORCS recently. One of the pieces of the puzzle. This was written before development of the ORCS, so who knows how long the structures can hold back the river....

[HelmutVII]

We REALLY need a few weeks of no rain for the river basin before snow melt reaches us.

If we don't dry out, and we get a Tropical system to sit over us for a few days, those levees are toast.

That would help but it appears the weather pattern is a storm every 4 to 6 days that drops rain or snow.

[CharlieK]

Here is a map of the flooded areas from the Great Flood of 1927.

[CharlieK]

I just saw some pictures and read some stuff on other sites. But if weather allows, I am going to fly up there on Monday and get pictures of my own.

Did this happen?

[cajun4life]

Did this happen?

I’ve flown up and down the river twice this week and I haven’t spotted them. But the water is extremely high. Many of the elevated camps on Lake Mary have water in them.

[CharlieK]

Mississippi River Meander Belts, from a set of maps created in the 1940s...

[CharlieK]

What happens if the ORCS fails:

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/la/geolo...-ocr-small.pdf

The Fisk Report, that triggered the creation of the ORCS:

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/climate/...952-report.pdf