2019 Mississippi River

[CharlieK]

67

OK....glad you didn't say 97.

I'm 46 so still a pretty good chance this may occur during my time on earth. I plan to live to 150 or so....gotta see the Cajuns win a BCS championship in football...

[mahtoo]

OK....glad you didn't say 97.

I'm 46 so still a pretty good chance this may occur during my time on earth. I plan to live to 150 or so....gotta see the Cajuns win a BCS championship in football...

Send me the papers. I'll sign a contract for 97 right now.

[CharlieK]

Send me the papers. I'll sign a contract for 97 right now.

Your feelings is they will figure out the sedimentation problem?

[HelmutVII]

More severe weather in the plains and upper mid west this weekend.

https://youtu.be/nEkaH7nzcUw

[ZoomZoom]

If the Old River Control Structure were lost........

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/If...en=cat6-widget

Good read until “climate change”.

[HelmutVII]

Due to the heavy rains we had yesterday and the continued high water due to higher than normal flows in the Atchafalaya Rier.

https://kpel965.com/voluntary-evacua...martin-parish/

and more severe weather in the great plains heading to the mid west. All in the Red Rier or Mississippi river basins. All of it eventually flows through Louisiana.

[ZoomZoom]

That last sentence of yours is a downright scary thought.

Yes sir it is. Drove thru Butte LaRose this weekend. Water along roadway in many spots between pontoon bridge and levee.

[NewsCopy]

The last time the Mississippi River was this high for this long, it prompted the federal government to build the modern levee system.

The river has been in flood stage for months, and on Tuesday, will hit 136 days in flood stage at Baton Rouge, breaking the record set in 1927.

What's more, the river is still in major flood stage and rising, though held in place by the levees. Meteorologists say they expect it will stay in flood stage "well into summer."

The rest of the story

[CajunVic]

Its time for this thread to go back to current reports on the State of the River.

[Turbine]

Meanwhile ...

Ole Man River keeps rolling along.